The "concrete jungle" might be a term most commonly used to fondly describe New York City, but in reality, New York does a pretty good job at making sure streets are tree-lined, and parks are plentiful.
Many other cities are equally sprawling without any respite of green in sight. These photos of urban hellscapes feature modern cities and past mistakes that showcase incredible car dependence, atrocious pollution, and grey as far as the eye can see.
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The air quality in Phoenix Arizona.
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Downtown Houston in the 1970s.
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“The building next to the hotel I'm staying at.”
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“NYC apartment the broker showed me.”
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Houston, houses next to a parking garage.
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Surely one more lane will fix it.
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“Coming into Los Angeles.”
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Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles 1962.
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This is not concrete, this is New Delhi.
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“Sao Paulo actually looks like an urban jungle.”
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Top view of Gwangyang Steel Works, South Korea. Largest facility of its kind in the world. It outputs an avg of 18 million tons of steel per year.
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Tokyo has a horrific lack of trees and greenery.
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Downtown Seattle, in the heart of the retail district.
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Light pollution by a single building in Mumbai at 1 AM.
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A fortress of the rich surrounded by dense lower class settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Mesa, Arizona, USA. Suburban purgatory.
