A visit to Thames Town, the British themed architectural knock-off and ghost city.
China’s Ghost Cities
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Ordos: The Land Of Many Palaces, A Talk With Filmmakers Adam Smith And Song Ting
Two filmmakers are out in Ordos Kangbashi — a mythical new city in the middle of a desert in Inner Mongolia — trying to understand the rise of the New China. Listen to the podcast: [powerpress]
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China’s Manhattan Knock-Off Aspires To Be Bigger And Better Than The Real Thing
Yujiapu is set to become the world’s largest financial district and the world’s greatest knock-off. Based on Manhattan’s FiDi, It will even have its own Rockefeller Center and a pair of towers that look a lot like those of the original World Trade Center. This is almost too surreal to believe.
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A Journey to Zhengdong, China’s Largest Ghost City
Earlier this month, 60 Minutes claimed that Zhengzhou’s New District is a ghost city, but that’s not what I found.
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Welcome To Xinyang,The Chinese Ghost City That’s Not Even Built Yet
A massive exhibition center stood vacant next to an equally desolate museum and theater, forests of high-rises reached up into the sky but sheltered nobody, and a sea of uninhabited buildings stretched out in all directions as far as I could see. I was in Xinyang’s new district, in the south of China’s Henan province, [...]
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Not Deserted! This Chinese Ghost City Is Peopled
There were people in that city. There were walking on the sidewalks, driving cars, riding electric bicycles, talking on mobile phones, slurping noodles in restaurants, sipping cappuccinos in cafes, playing with children in parks, and doing exercises on the stadium’s track. There were people in that city, but there shouldn’t have been: I was in Dantu, one of China’s [...]
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New South China Mall: An Update On The World’s Largest (Ghost) Mall
It was supposed to have been the greatest shopping center ever built on the face of the earth. They built it and nobody came. The New South China Mall is still 99% deserted.
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