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Why China Is Moving Hundreds Of Mountains In Lanzhou New Area

March 3, 2019 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

Removing mountain tops in Lanzhou New Area. (Photo by the author)

“Four years ago, all mountains,” my local driver Li Wang said as we putted slowly forward in his diminutive, beaten and battered old Japanese car … [Read more...]

Filed Under: China, China's Ghost Cities, New Silk Road Tagged With: China Construction, China Development, China Housing Market, Gansu Province, Lanzhou, Lanzhou New Area

Why China Builds So Many Copycat Towns

March 3, 2019 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

I once mistakenly tried to enter through the fake door of a fake Iberian restaurant next to the fake windmills of Fengcheng, Shanghai's Spanish town. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: China, China's Ghost Cities Tagged With: Changing China, China Copycat Towns, China Development, China Housing Market, Hallstatt - China

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

The Story of Ordos Kangbashi, China’s Most Famous Ghost City

August 24, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

Ordos Kangbashi is a city that shocked the world. It shocked the world not because of something it had, but because of what it didn't: people. This is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities Tagged With: Inner Mongolia, Kangbashi, Urban Development

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

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

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

How A 4.5 Million Person City Was Named A Ghost Town

November 1, 2013 by Wade Shepard 5 Comments

Changzhou has recently been named one of 12 ghost cities in China by the China Youth Daily, which is a rather unbecoming label for a city that has a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Development, Urbanization Tagged With: Changzhou, Changzhou Ghost City, Jiangsu Province, Wujin District

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

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