20 Photos Of “Urban Hell” That Are Deeply Dystopian And Unsettling

Proof humanity needs to rethink its growth strategy.

The future is now — and it’s super depressing.

The Urban Hell page on Reddit is dedicated to showcasing photos of architectural fails and concrete jungles going way too far. These creepy photos of massive and backed-up highways, dense sprawls of eerily identical houses, and trash-covered landscapes remind us that humanity needs to seriously rethink its growth strategy.

Keep going for photos of a frightening dystopia that looks like fiction, but is very much our reality.

1. Phnom Penh New Gated Community

2. Gurugram, India

3. Satellite View Of New Delhi (A City Of Some 20 Million People)

4. Once Upon A Time, These Houses Have A Sea View, Now They Have This View

5. Istanbul Traffic

6. Contrasts

7. Metro Manila, Philippines

8. Tokyo From Skytree

9. Balcony Facade Of A Famous Hotel In Thailand

10. Mumbai Water Pipes With Garbage And Slums, Those Pipes Supply Water To Localities With Apartment Rates Exceeding A Million Dollar For 3bhk In Bandra, Santacruz

11. Light Pollution From Train Line Over Old Houses In China

12. Early Powerline Setups – When Thousands Of Cables Filled The Sky

13. Tokyo, Japan

14. Neon District In The Lahore Walled City

15. The Other-Side Of Rio De Janeiro

16. Hong Kong Apartments

17. Burlington Beach, Ontario

18. Egyptian Times Square, Cairo, Egypt

19. Hong Kong, Enough Said

20. Caribbean Coast Estate, Hong Kong

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