“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...]
Why China Builds So Many Copycat Towns
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...]
How China Populates Its Ghost Cities
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...]
11 Chinese Cities That Are Built on What Was Once Water
Virgin urban construction land in China is like a carcass in a pit of hyenas. The feeding frenzy to gobble up and lay claim to as much develop-able … [Read more...]
Nanhui, China’s Unbelievable Ghost City on the Coast
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...]
