Peking University did a big study on China’s ghost cities using “big data” from the Baidu search engine. This is my response about it.
China’s Ghost Cities
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The Story of How China’s Ghost Cities Were Made
I get a look at the inner workings of how the ghost city narrative was created and maintained.
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What Are China’s Ghost Cities Really All About?
I sound off about ghost cities and the disparity between what the international media reports and what is evident on the ground.
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Are There Really Ghost Cities in China?
China’s ghost cities: for real or the invention of a Western media that refuses to understand how China works?
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The future of China’s ‘ghost cities’ |China Daily
This is an article that I wrote for the China Daily to complement a cover story on ghost cities that I was included in.
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“Enough empty floor space to cover Madrid”: so why are China’s ghost cities still unoccupied? | CityMetric
This is my latest article in CityMetric, the urbanism blog of the New Statesman. It’s about the reasons why many of China’s new cities appear so empty for so long.
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5 Chinese Ghost Cities that Came Alive
As China’s so-called ghost cities fill up they are forgotten by a mainstream international media that is hungry for sensational stories, not rational takes on what is surely the most expansive urbanization movement in human history. Here are five new cities in China that have filled up with people and commerce since being heralded as ghost towns.
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Ghost Cities of China Can Now be Pre-Ordered from Amazon
Ghost Cities of China is can now be pre-ordered through Amazon. This is what I’ve been working on for the past two years.
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The Story of Ordos Kangbashi, China’s Most Famous Ghost City
They came from just about every other corner of China to start new lives in a remote outpost in Inner Mongolia. Ordos Kangbashi was meant to be one of China’s new urban utopias though it hasn’t yet worked out that way.
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Fengcheng: Shanghai’s Quixotic Spanish Town
So Shanghai built a Spanish town in their suburbs — so what? Take a look at what happens to China’s foreign themed new towns.
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