An excerpt from Ghost Cities of China has been featured in The New Inquiry.
Urbanization
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11 Chinese Cities That Are Built on What Was Once Water
Each day China grows larger and larger. Land is being reclaimed from the sea along the country’s coastlines at a frantic pace, pushing its boundaries out farther and farther. How big China will eventually get nobody knows. This is a list of 11 places in China that were built on what was once water.
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Why Singapore is Covering its Buildings in Plants
The cities of the future will be green — literally. Singapore has taken green architecture to it’s logical next step and jump started a trend that will probably cover the cities of the world very soon.
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CIFIT Trade Fair in Xiamen Shows Future of China
What China is becoming was showcased in a row of exhibits. Why was I the only one looking at them?
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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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Nanhui, China’s Unbelievable Ghost City on the Coast
Nanhui is a full scale, independent new city that is being completely built from scratch 60 km outside of downtown Shanghai. It is being constructed to house 800,000 people, but is currently in the ghost city stage of development: hanging somewhere between being deserted and coming alive. This is the story of what I found there.
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Look Inside China’s Medical City
China has an entire new city that’s designated for bio-medical research, development, and production, but few have ever heard of it.
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The Myth of China’s Big and Crowded Cities
China has some of the largest and most populated cities in the world, but they are not as big as they seem.
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Can Chinese Shopping Malls Become Centers of Culture?
China is very rapidly becoming “mall-ified” as large swaths of its urban areas are being redeveloped as self-contained residential/ commercial clusters centered around shopping malls. What effect does this have on the culture?
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How A 4.5 Million Person City Was Named A Ghost Town
Changzhou has recently been named one of 12 ghost cities in China, which is a rather unbecoming label for a city that has a 2,500 year history and 4.5 million people.
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