Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country

Wade Shepard

Zed Books

2015

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-13: 9781783602193

China has built hundreds of new cities and urban districts over the past 30 years, and hundreds more are set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, 250 million more rural Chinese will move into cities, bringing the country's urban population up over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. The traditional social structures are at an advanced stage of being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption centric "globalized" culture is rapidly taking its place. As China redraws its map with new cities it isn't just manufacturing new urban areas but are engineering new culture and way of life. Ghost Cities of China is a dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many are currently under populated.