China is currently in the process of building 200 new eco-cities, but what are these places all about and do they actually provide the ecological benefits they promise?
Urbanization
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What Are Sponge Cities and Why is China Building so Many of Them?
China is now building sponge cities. What are these places?
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Do China’s Ghost Cities Offer a Solution for Syrian Refugees?
Can the masses of Syrian refugees in need of places to live be moved into China’s millions of empty apartments?
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Response to Peking University/ Baidu Ghost City Study
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.
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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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Horgos: The First New City of the New Silk Road
Take a look at the first new city of what could be the greatest development initiative the world has ever known.
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Another Reason to Travel: Places Get Destroyed
Places change, cities are destroyed, countries collapse. Always travel and experience these places while you still can.
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China’s 5 most amazing ‘new’ cities | Weird@Wanderlust | Wanderlust
This is an article that I wrote for Wanderlust Magazine about my five favorite new cities in China and why travelers should visit them now.
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Welcome to the New Town Squares of China
Sure, malls are a ubiquitous, mono-cultural, expensive, and haphazard way to develop an urban area but they serve a vital social function in China that we’d probably miss if it wasn’t there.
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