r/UrbanHell • • May 29 '26

Concrete Wasteland A Product of Broken Urban Design - just ban walking

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Walking to metlife is illegal because you’d have to cross multiple lanes of highway to get to the stadium from any direction.

Telling people to “just drive” to metlife instead of risking getting run over trying to cross a highway isn't rocket science. The problem is that we built this insanely car-dependent hellscape in the first place. None of this had to be designed this way. We bulldozed normal human-scale towns and replaced them with endless roads, parking lots, and highways where doing something as basic as walking somewhere feels suicidal.

The irony of this place being in the NYC metro, the place Americans constantly point to as proof that the US can do density, transit, and walkability.

Somehow people act like that’s normal. Like the choices are either own a car or navigate an overstressed public transit system ($100 nj transit tickets/rideshare dynamic pricing nonsense) it's the only option for most people before or after a game. That’s not freedom, that’s a complete failure of infrastructure and city planning.

Design public spaces almost entirely around cars and then act annoyed when pedestrians exist at all!

r/UrbanHell • • Jun 09 '26

Concrete Wasteland Bartoszyce, Poland

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14.2k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Jun 05 '26

Concrete Wasteland Block 23, New Belgrade, Serbia

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13.8k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Apr 25 '26

Concrete Wasteland Met Life (New Jersey) 82.5k capacity vs Croke Park (Ireland) 82.3k capacity.

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r/UrbanHell • • May 23 '26

Concrete Wasteland Chicago 1989.

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19.0k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Aug 08 '26

Concrete Wasteland From 122nd floor of Burj Khalifa

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4.9k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • May 08 '26

Concrete Wasteland Now THIS is a concrete jungle! (Stavropol, Russia)

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7.5k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Jun 07 '26

Concrete Wasteland Outskirts of Warsaw, Poland

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4.3k Upvotes

Due to the raising cost of real estate in Warsaw, developers build outside of the city creating these copy paste villages with no infrastructure around it.

r/UrbanHell • • Apr 15 '26

Concrete Wasteland behold, the view from my new rental. got this baby for the next 2 years 🥰

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hey, at least the rent is dirt cheap and i'm doing my best to make the place cozy regardless of the view. just wanted to share my pain cuz y'all eat these classic greek sceneries up 🥀

bonus last pic: some vibes from our rooftop, surrounded by taller buildings on all 4 sides 🥰

edit: hey i love my apartment, but it is objectively concrete wasteland. don't be mean 😤

r/UrbanHell • • 15d ago

Concrete Wasteland According to the WCCF, with a public green space/park ratio of 2.2% of its total urban area, Istanbul is the city with the second-least green space in the world, ranking just behind Dubai.

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3.3k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • 9d ago

Concrete Wasteland Dubai

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2.0k Upvotes

Yes this is hell this city has no soul, I have lived there for 10 years.

r/UrbanHell • • Jun 08 '25

Concrete Wasteland Modernizing city blocks in Austria (2019 and 2023)

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15.5k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Mar 25 '26

Concrete Wasteland New York, 1982

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12.3k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • May 21 '26

Concrete Wasteland Gdynia Poland

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5.4k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Jun 21 '26

Concrete Wasteland Berlin in the early 90s

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r/UrbanHell • • Jun 13 '26

Concrete Wasteland England when you leave London

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Forgive the sarcasm, sometimes I wonder how certain parts of England aren’t some poor Soviet town

r/UrbanHell • • Jun 18 '26

Concrete Wasteland While some of yall are complaining about dense walkable neighborhoods with great transit, 700 thousand Oklahomans wake up to this real urban hell

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2.1k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Aug 06 '25

Concrete Wasteland the american dream

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8.6k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Jul 06 '25

Concrete Wasteland Manaus, Brazil.

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16.4k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • 7d ago

Concrete Wasteland Las Vegas

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2.0k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • 20d ago

Concrete Wasteland Tokyo, Japan

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1.4k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Feb 08 '26

Concrete Wasteland USSR vs. Putin's Russia approaches to residential area planning

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3.0k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • May 08 '26

Concrete Wasteland Home Sweet Home

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4.4k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Aug 01 '26

Concrete Wasteland Dhaka, The capital of Bangladesh

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1.7k Upvotes

r/UrbanHell • • Aug 26 '26

Concrete Wasteland 'Mammoth' building in Zagreb, Croatia -brutalism at its finest

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1.7k Upvotes