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How China Populates Its Ghost Cities

March 3, 2019 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

Over the past twenty years China has constructed hundreds of new cities and districts, revamped thousands of towns, and thrown up an almost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: China, China's Ghost Cities Tagged With: Changing China, China Development, China Housing Market, Real Estate, Shanghai

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

Stampede on the Bund: An Eyewitness Account of Shanghai’s New Year’s Tragedy

January 9, 2015 by Andrew J. Shainker 1 Comment

I wonder what it would feel like to suffocate to death? I could imagine fear and panic would engulf your entire being until blackness falls upon your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Current Events Tagged With: bund, China, new years, Shanghai

Fengcheng: Shanghai’s Quixotic Spanish Town

August 7, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

There was something Quixotic about that place, which was perhaps appropriate as I was standing before a row of giant, mock windmills. They used to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Urbanization Tagged With: Architecture Copycatting, Fengcheng Shanghai, Fengxian Shanghai, One City Nine Towns, Shanghai, Western Architecture, Western Architecture in China

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

Nanhui, China’s Unbelievable Ghost City on the Coast

June 20, 2014 by Wade Shepard 6 Comments

The first thing that many visitors to Shanghai will see is a ghost city. If you look down out of the window when flying into Shanghai's Pudong airport … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Urbanization Tagged With: China Development, China Urbanization, Nanhui, Shanghai, Shanghai New Towns, Urbanization

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

What Life is Like Inside A Shanghai Migrant Worker Village

February 18, 2014 by Wade Shepard 1 Comment

“They are like deserters from village life and lonely birds in the city.” -Li Jiuxin, Tsinghua University Walking on the scaffolding stacked up the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Culture and Society Tagged With: China, Inequality in China, Migrant Workers, Migrant Workers in China, Nanhui, Shanghai

A Journey To China’s Italian Ghost Town

September 3, 2013 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

I walked clear through Shanghai's Italian town without knowing it. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but the overtly institutional, strictly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Urbanization Tagged With: Architecture Copycatting, Pujiang, Shanghai

Shanghai’s Dutch Ghost Town

August 16, 2013 by Wade Shepard 1 Comment

"Here used to be original Asian city with lots of original style buildings. Now it has been developed and all of that is now gone. It is a pity," a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Architecture Knock Offs, Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Urbanization Tagged With: China, Dutch Architecture, Gaoqiao, Ghost Town, Shanghai

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