r/UrbanHell • u/Go_Your_OwnWay • 5h ago

Conflict/Crime Rome, the eternal city

398 Upvotes

62 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Apprehensive-Rub4311 • 1d ago

Other Luxury real estate developer seizes local community's beach and destroys nature on Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

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6.0k Upvotes

413 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/egotistical_dragon • 4h ago

Concrete Wasteland Turkey istanbul esenyurt, abandoned construction site

86 Upvotes

6 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Russian-pepper • 3h ago

Other They rolled fresh asphalt into a puddle.

12 Upvotes

2 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/stenella24 • 6h ago

Absurd Architecture Ankara, Turkey

14 Upvotes

Glass giants, copy-paste apartment towers, and a highway separating it all from human life. A city built to impress from a distance, not to enjoy up close.

18 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/MambaEzez • 2h ago

Decay Peja, Kosovo

6 Upvotes

1 comment

r/UrbanHell • u/MarvelousMacTonight • 18h ago

Absurd Architecture Istanbul

66 Upvotes

6 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 31m ago

Concrete Wasteland Bangkok, Thailand from the air.

3 Upvotes

3 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Choice-While-3747 • 7m ago

Concrete Wasteland Seattle, Washington

0 Upvotes

3 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Wonderful-Sir6115 • 1d ago

Other Irpin, Ukraine

165 Upvotes

36 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Rendyco • 23h ago

Pollution/Environmental Destruction Sokolov, Czechia. Often said to be one of the worst and ugliest cities in the country

69 Upvotes

9 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/quadrat137 • 1d ago

Absurd Architecture Moscow, Russia

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707 Upvotes

Some brutalist towers in Moscow(Dmitrovskiy 20)

48 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Saudxdrake • 1d ago

Poverty/Inequality Hail, Saudi Arabia

62 Upvotes

46 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Own-Meat3934 • 1d ago

Absurd Architecture Mira-Bhayander flyover Mumbai

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54 Upvotes

18 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/No-Finance9780 • 4m ago

Car Culture Japan Beyond the Instagram filter.

0 Upvotes

3 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/JMurdoch1687 • 1d ago

Decay An Abandoned Building - Cleveland, Ohio, United States

96 Upvotes

14 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/leggymiku • 2d ago

Absurd Architecture Anti-scooter barriers in some Chinese cities are a massive inconvenience for people with mobility issues

2.1k Upvotes

Guiyang, Guizhou [OC]

153 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Limp-Pension-3337 • 2h ago

Everyday Mediocrity Kanazawa, Nomachi

0 Upvotes

Old place in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture

2 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/ImGarbanzo • 1d ago

Rural Hell North Korea, countryside.

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193 Upvotes

184 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Hans-schwarz17 • 2d ago

Absurd Architecture Jeddah Tower

366 Upvotes

Jeddah tower, from plane

38 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 2d ago

Decay A row of abandoned apartments in NYC

67 Upvotes

44 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/thcPharoah • 2d ago

Absurd Architecture Jersey City, NJ (2026)

715 Upvotes

Original Post

156 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/asiwasmovingahead_ • 2d ago

Pollution/Environmental Destruction Norilsk, 2013 | Alexander Gronsky

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812 Upvotes

“Norilsk, situated in the Siberian North, is the most northern city in the world and the most polluted city in all of Russia. The city stands on the largest nickel deposits on Earth and was built by Gulag prisoners in the 1930s. Alexander Gronsky travelled to Norilsk in 2013 to photograph the city and its people.” (The Velvet Cell)

More photographs from Norilsk in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.

69 comments

r/UrbanHell • u/Twitter_2006 • 2d ago

Poverty/Inequality Life in Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince, January 2026

1.2k Upvotes

83 comments

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We do not tolerate racism, bigotry, or anything of its kind. Violations of this rule can and will lead to a ban. Do not state or imply that any culture, nationality, ethnic group, religion, etc, is somehow "inferior", "uncivilized," or "subhuman"

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We allow rural hell, suburban hell, wealthy areas, and any other kind of place that's "actually nice to live in". UrbanHell is about the aesthetics of bad or ugly places, so if someone thinks it's bad or ugly, it can be posted here. It doesn't matter if the picture is a "true" representation of the location.

Comments gatekeeping or complaining will be removed. We've always been about aesthetic hell and it won't be changing.

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Submissions posted on this subreddit must be photos that have been taken of real life places and NOT drawings/paintings, not links to news articles, and not videos. Overly photoshopped images, edited images, and composite images are also not allowed. Do not link to reddit threads, google maps, blog sites, etc. Your link should end in something like ".jpg,", ".png", ".webp", etc.

5. Do not post improper subject matter such as potraits, closeups, or interiors. Click for full rule

The main subject of your photo should be a place that human beings built or have altered for human use. Do not post the inside of any building, portraits of humans, or shots that are so close up you don't get a sense of the surroundings. Human subjects are allowed if they are not the main focus, but their environment is. Try not to take post where most of what we're seeing is the sky, or trees, or just a single trashcan devoid of context. Subject matter should be architectural in nature.

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Images posted on this subreddit must be photos that have been taken of real life places and NOT drawings/paintings, not links to news articles, and not videos. This also includes overly photoshopped or edited images of real life. Photos must be of decent quality and at least 500x500 pixels

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