r/UrbanHell 5h ago

Conflict/Crime Ukraine 2025

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426 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 2h ago

Suburban Hell Stolipinovo - Bulgaria

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100 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 1h ago

Car Culture Houston. Not for Beginners

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r/UrbanHell 2h ago

Ugliness Italy Naples

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42 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 2h ago

Poverty/Inequality Austin, Texas

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40 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 22h ago

Absurd Architecture The "Salis" of Scampia, the most disastrous Italian redevelopment project, a symbol of the mafia and the decay of Naples

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1.3k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 20h ago

Car Culture Car-centric planning in Mumbai, India

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910 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 7h ago

Decay South Bronx, NYC, 1975.

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62 Upvotes

the doll makes me laugh and scares me at the same time lmao


r/UrbanHell 22h ago

Decay New York City’s urban decay (70s and 80s)

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874 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 21h ago

Decay I heard y'all like Cairo posts

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687 Upvotes

From my last trip to Cairo. A chaotic, dusty, historic, loud, vibrant city.


r/UrbanHell 1h ago

Everyday Mediocrity Often called Romanița (Moldovan for "Little Daisy") due to its petal-like, scalloped balcony structure radiating around the central axis, giving it a floral or "corn cob" silhouette.

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- Location: Chișinău, the capital of the Republic of Moldova.
- Architectural Style: Soviet Brutalism / Late Modernism.
- Architect: Oleg Vronsky (with engineer A. Shmulevich).
- Construction Period: Built between 1978 and 1986.
- Height & Structure: Stands at approximately 73 meters (22 stories) tall, featuring a distinct cylindrical core enveloped by repeating curved concrete balconies

Initially envisioned as a housing complex with communal facilities (including recreational spaces, a cafe, and a revolving top floor), it was ultimately converted into a municipal residential high-rise/dormitory. The building remains a famous landmark of late Soviet architectural experimentation, though it now shows significant signs of age and structural wear.


r/UrbanHell 1h ago

Ugliness Sofia Bulgaria

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Graffiti to help make things ugly. I wonder if people that say like graffiti would want to offer their house as a canvas


r/UrbanHell 3h ago

Ugliness Cairo, Egypt

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19 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 1h ago

Decay Flooded highway with stolen scooter, Marseille, France [OC]

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r/UrbanHell 2h ago

Ugliness Omotesando - one of the most fashionable areas in Tokyo, Japan

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11 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 9h ago

Absurd Architecture Hola, Cairo!

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33 Upvotes

My Cairo 🫡❤️🥹


r/UrbanHell 8h ago

Poverty/Inequality Marseille, France

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31 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 22h ago

Ugliness First in the whole country Shakespeare monument was unveiled in Poltava

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339 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 3h ago

Other Baghdad - Iraq

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11 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 16h ago

Pollution/Environmental Destruction Lima, Peru

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86 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 9h ago

Poverty/Inequality East Pyongyang

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18 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 1d ago

Other Vasilievsky, Russia

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483 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 19h ago

Pollution/Environmental Destruction Gurugram, India

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104 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 16h ago

Pollution/Environmental Destruction Agbogbloshie, Ghana

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42 Upvotes

r/UrbanHell 1d ago

Pollution/Environmental Destruction Dhaka , Bangladesh

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956 Upvotes