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...]
What Becomes of China’s Ghost Cities
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...]
The Myth of China’s Big and Crowded Cities
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...]