Ghost cities of China
Subtitle: the story of cities without people in the world's most populated country
By: Wade Shepard
Series: Asian arguments; Asian arguments
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781783602193; 9781783602186
Subjects: New towns; Real estate development; Urbanization; Planned communities
Other titles: Cities without people in the world's most populated country
Description: "Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: The new map of China; title: Clearing the land; title: Of new cities and ghost cities; title: When construction ends the building begins; title: Megacities inside megacities; title: A new city, a new identity; title: Powering the new China; title: The unsinkable ship; title: What ghost cities become.