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5 Chinese Ghost Cities that Came Alive

April 7, 2015 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

Reports of the world's most populated country having tens of millions of empty apartments and dozens of cities without people sounds like a sick twist … [Read more...]

Filed Under: China, China's Ghost Cities, Cities and Urban Development Tagged With: Changzhou, Dantu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Zhengzhou

China’s Disposable Cities

August 4, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

Throughout China, the old is being replaced by the new and the new is being replaced by the newer in a continuous round of entropy that has virtually … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Cities and Urban Development Tagged With: Changing China, China Construction, China Corruption, Demolition, Hongqiao, Shanghai

What Becomes of China’s Ghost Cities

August 1, 2014 by Wade Shepard

It was a normal outlaying area of a normal small city in the east of China. There was nothing about it that a passerby would find overtly peculiar, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Cities and Urban Development, Travel Stories Tagged With: Tiantai, Urban Development, Zhejiang Province

The Myth of China’s Big and Crowded Cities

February 24, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

I looked out over a flat, wide-open landscape of farmland, fallow fields, and dirt lots stretching far into the distance. A small brick shack was to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Cities and Urban Development, Urbanization Tagged With: China Urbanization, Chongqing, Hulunbuir, Shanghai, Urban Development

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