It's the two kiddos with huge smiles for me 😞

Kowloon Walled City was a fascinating place. A population of 1.3MILLION per square Kilometer. It was a lawless slum that must have been absolute hell to live in. the whole place was established as part of the same treaty that Established Hong Kong as a British protectorate. Short version, Kowloon was a weird loophole that neither side owned but it became a major conduit to move goods in and out of Communist China for about 50 years.

I remember the day the wall came down. I was only 9yo but I was starting to pay attention to the world. That was the biggest thing since Challenger.

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I'm certainly not 'jalous' of those who live there

The first time everyone plays sim city; LA is what they create.

Those lower apartmemts have no privacy.

I would love to understand the why of this - how come this happens, not just in Bangladesh, but plenty of other places in SE Asia. Does anyone know? If nothing else, that rubbish could be burnt to generate heat and then electricity. "Where there's muck, there's brass" and all that.

LOL! Excellent caption. But it's colorful, clean, and I can't read a word of Japanese so I don't care what it says.

Nothing like a bit of individuality and space for a garden! Sarcasm, to be clear.

What always gets me about chinas infrastructure is - how do you get your furniture up there easily? What if you have stuff that won’t fit in the entry way? Do the crane it up?

Initially I thought this was a landfill or rubbish dump.

People, buy glasses. Or pay attention. Yoz seriously overlook all these burnt out and damaged buildings?

Dredd Peachtrees vibes

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Could use some power washing

WTF get a transportation expert in there.

USA, the nicest third world country.

When I read "Hyesan" it reminds me the excellent book "The girl with seven names", written by Hyeon Seo Lee, who ran away from Hyesan. It's worth reading it.

There is no way to walk anywhere in this place.

This makes me think of all the people with breathing difficulties

Particularly terrifying given that the area is prone to earthquakes and sand loves to get all unstable when the ground gets shaky...

Everyone's driving on the wrong side of the road, that's ya problem right there

Imagine trying to sleep if you live on the top floors!

The trees will remain when the concrete has all crumbled.

And the shape of the tree they cut out is currently planted on another street because lord knows actual trees are expensive s/

Yes. Quite the shame actually that Genoa is basically cut pff from the sea by the SS1.

This is depressing.

This is the USA. I don't know which particular city, but in a way that is irrelevant....because when Eisenhower put the highway system in this happened to many cities. For some reason it just didn't occur to those early highway planners that they could swerve around cities. So many communities were cut in half, creating defacto areas with less access to cultural assets like libraries, parks, government offices, etc...........To be clear, the highways were put in to facilitate the rapid movement of large scale military equipment and personnel. Making car travel easier was of secondary concern.

Don't know about the quality of life and but it does look kinda rad.

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This is one of those cases of "I'll invent a number to make it sound deadly." Actually, although the area does generate illegal levels of pollution, government data has found that there is NOT an elevated cancer rate.

And most people still think that the pyramids are in the middle of the desert :-D

Peak brutalism but not urban hell.

The roofs people, the roofs, where are they

When the chicken restaurant goes in across from Kramer's apartment.

How is this a solution to anything? If it's supposed to stop squatters, they'll find somewhere else. A case of "if it's not on my patch, I don't have to do anything about it".

Most of these don't fit the definition of urban hell because they're not hell. This isn't even urban. So, a house was boarded up because it was abandoned. Big fat hairy deal. If it's Hell, I'm sure it's because of the temperature.

That's not the worst part of Kensington.

Pretty cool water tho

So grey 😢

I read the original post. Apparently: "Egypt, Cairo (Shafi'i cemeteries in old Egypt to be precise), Halim Pasha Dome." Why? For crying out loud, why do this?

Weird. No, not the image itself. But the fact there's no comments. If this was located in Anywhere, USA, there' would already be a dozen "America bad" comments, like several of the pics above.

That's hardly inspiring for a school. Or maybe it would make you work harder so you can get the hell out .

Trashy people are everywhere.

I remember Diana 😂

Nuclear is a safe and clean source of energy

So pretty

Destroyed in 1994.

This is not urban? It looks blissfully suburban to me, with tons of space and greenery.

Looks like a border city in northern Mexico maybe CD. Juarez.

How hot or cold is this person ?

Toronto is much the same. The encampments get cleared periodically, which does nothing but create an endless cycle of movement from park to street corner to parkette to ravine to vacant lot and back again. Our three levels of government are unable (or rather unwilling) to cooperate on funding effective supports for unhoused people.

Cañada, not Canada. It's La Cañada Real, Madrid. No relationship with the soccer team.

I still like it.

In 1949, the government of Los Angeles siezed hundreds of homes here by condemning them and declaring eminent domain, but not for a baseball stadium, but for a newer, government-controlled housing project. Pretty much everyone except the statist mayor hated the idea. After he was thrown out of office, nobody wanted to build the housing project that the neighborhood was destroyed in order to create. The stadium was built ten years later, after paying fair-market prices to buy out some additional homes.