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CHINA is awash with "ghost cities" where apartment blocks stand abandoned or mothballed with some 65million empty homes. The dystopian landscape of empty high-rises, expansive parks and grand ...
China single-handedly topped the phrase "bridge to nowhere" and made ghost cities a euphemism for lousy development planning in the world's No. 2 economy. Anyone can build a useless overpass ...
China's ghost cities aren't going away. Even as Beijing wants local governments to move away from GDP targeting and is more focused on developing social housing, wasteful construction still ...
How Forest City Started 2:45 Forest City's Current Status 4:52 Forest City's Doomed Strategy 12:44 The Future of Forest City ...
Built it and they didn't come. That could be the motto for China's infamous "ghost cities" — vast housing complexes that were frantically erected over the past decade but remain largely uninhabited.
China’s “ghost cities,” where towns are built at high-speed but struggle to find residents, are a well-known phenomenon. But while there are lots of pictures of these uncanny cities online ...
China’s ghost cities are far more common than one might think. Take the State Guest Mansions, a development envisioned as the palatial homes for the upper crust of society. Now their only ...
The city has spent 14 years planning, erecting and maintaining Kangbashi, which has the distinction of being one of China’s best-known “ghost towns”—gleaming but sparsely populated new ...
Built it and they didn't come. That could be the motto for China's now infamous "ghost cities" — vast housing complexes that were frantically erected over the past decade but that remain largely ...