Ghost cities of China : the story of cities without people in the world's most populated country /
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 i...
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| 505 | 8 | |a The Ghost City Critique Building a New World Within the Four Seas -- Two: Clearing the Land -- Who Owns the Land? -- Building a New Country, Literally | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Out with the Old, in with the New Out with the New, in with the Newer -- Clearing the Land -- Land Sales -- Manufacturing Land | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Three: Of New Cities and Ghost CitiesWhat is a Ghost City? -- What is a Chinese City? -- The Political Structure of Chinese Municipalities -- Types of New Chinese Urban Development -- Building New Cities | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Of New Cities Of Ghost Cities -- Why So Many Empty Apartments? -- Residents-in-waiting -- Economics on the Frontier -- Four: When Construction Ends the Building Begins | |
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