"You are building Manhattan," I joked with a group of construction workers in what is becoming Tianjin's new financial district. He nodded his head … [Read more...]
China’s Manhattan Knock-Off Aspires To Be Bigger And Better Than The Real Thing
A Journey To China’s Largest Ghost City
"We discovered that the most populated country on earth is building houses, districts, and cities with no one in them," began a report on 60 Minutes … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Imported Foods: A Band Aid For China’s Contaminated Food Problem?
The international food aisle is something that's becoming more and more popular in supermarkets throughout China. Where they once were obscure outside … [Read more...]
New South China Mall: An Update On The World’s Largest (Ghost) Mall
They were going for a monument, and a monument was what they got. At first, the New South China Mall was a monument to China's new consumer culture … [Read more...]
Christmas in China
I found myself standing beneath a 40 foot Santa Claus puppet in the streets of Taizhou's bar district. It was dancing Gangnam style. My wife was … [Read more...]
Eastern China: One Big Metropolis? China’s New Cities
"Around 14 years ago I went up into the tower with an urban developer and we looked south. We could see all the way to the river then, there was … [Read more...]
China’s Traffic Crisis is a Population Density Problem
From Guangzhou to Beijing, Shanghai to Chengdu, there is one common crisis: traffic. The rapidly rising number of personal automobiles on the roads of … [Read more...]
Traditional Communities Demolished as China Modernizes
"It's not a simple right or wrong, it's a whole new way of thinking." -Edward Burtynsky, from Manufactured Landscapes on the industrialization of … [Read more...]
