Chen Liangyu
Dongtan, China was a sustainable eco-city project planned in the 2000s that was never built. Reasons for the project's failure include confusion over who would fund Dongtan (Arup, its British engineering company, or Shanghai Industrial Investment, its state-owned developer) as well as the jailing of Dongtan's top political backer, former Shanghai Communist Party chief Chen Liangyu, on corruption charges in 2008.