Chinese Ghost Cities--Smart or Dumb Planning?
June 20, 2011 at 09:05PM
Sustainability 2030 in Cities & Urbanization, Globalization, Planning, Planning - Urban, etc., china, ghost cities, urbanization

What an ambitious, laudable, and forward-looking development program: build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years!, on top of the ones they have already built and which are empty, entire cities that is, empty!

So is this a smart move -- building cities and warehousing them for the future urban influx (China's part of the next 3 billion travelers on spaceship earth) since the current population can't afford them-- or a dumb one -- diverting scarce capital that could be put to better developmental use?

Check out the planetizen article and the 29 satellite photos.

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