Nowhere on earth does 50% of city look like that. If anything a larger portion of Indian cities resemble that than many others on earth simply because India's commercial real estate market is pretty huge. Problem comes in general architecture of other buildings in surroundings that make subcon cities look shit.
A european city for example without any Grade-A offices, hotels or mall will still look more appealing due to general architecture of all other buildings, while cities in India will have big business parks, malls and all with rest of the buildings being ugly brick/concrete blocks making the entire urban area appear shitty, simply because much of the Indian population can't comprehend building aesthetics. Only Himalayan states seem to comprehend that.
And no, not even 0.1% of entire bangladesh is like that.
Ugly blocks 3-4 story buildings on 20ft roads is literally 50% of blore .. The issue is all these properties are rentals or PGs where enginiggers live in while their place of work ,1st world "Global capacity centers" are 400 meters away. The issue is most of these enginiggers do not vote where they work so there is literally 0 incentive to improve these areas. And if I was more conspiracy theory minded I would guess It is a trick to make the enginiggers stay in office longer, which are infinitely more appealing as compared to where they live.
Since I was talking about urban infra and planning, here's some random city in literal Congo.
View: https://youtu.be/stCbwGn5Ehg?si=gE8oxQRCzL6rxOS1
These are some more
Although, yes most of their capital/country looks like this...
View: https://youtu.be/2F0y33jGUUk?si=k8QQS5XvqurGoLVq
But, it's GDP per capita (as what their government claims) is around $700. Less than Bihar. But in reality, it's per capita electricity consumption is more than a dozen times less than India per capita, and a quarter of Bihar. Indicating that it is an extremely poor country with agriculture as main source of economic activity. Even in agriculture their output of various agro commodities is far lower than India per capita.
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By the way these are much older numbers, our output volume has increased by a lot since these were published.
Now, this isn't supposed to shame them or mock them, but rather appreciate how they built better urban infra than much of India given their conditions. Although much of Congo's cities look pretty rural, that is expected due to very low population density and economic prosperity.
This is literally how entirety of Bihar looks like.
View: https://youtu.be/7UdvorsEYd4?si=hJme6lun8JeS3hsG
May I ask where would you live, Bihar or Congo based on the visible difference?
Large portion of Indian cities look similar, just slightly better than above.
Meanwhile capital of Philippines, country that is slightly poorer than India.
View: https://youtu.be/rnLU-BgyYNk?si=-vHEcJ31nFyZvfOG
Seriously though, what exactly is wrong with us? This is embarrassing.