Ghost Cities of China : The Story of Cities Without People in the World's Most Populated Country
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| Title: | Ghost Cities of China : The Story of Cities Without People in the World's Most Populated Country |
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| 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. |
| Authors: | Wade Shepard |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Planned communities--China, New towns--China, Real estate development--China, Urbanization--China, Collectivite´s nouvelles--Chine, Villes nouvelles--Chine, Promotion immobilie`re--Chine, Urbanisation--Chine, Society, New towns |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Asia / China |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9781783602193 9781783602186 9781783602209 9781783602216 9781783602223 |
