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Author Shepard, Wade, author

Title Ghost cities of China : the story of cities without people in the world's most populated country / Wade Shepard
Published London : Zed Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource : map
Series Asian arguments
Asian arguments.
Contents Front Cover -- Asian Arguments -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Map of China -- One: The New Map of China
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
Out with the Old, in with the New Out with the New, in with the Newer -- Clearing the Land -- Land Sales -- Manufacturing Land
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
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
Summary 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 reas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 14, 2015)
Subject Planned communities -- China
New towns -- China
Real estate development -- China
Urbanization -- China
Politics & government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
New towns
Planned communities
Real estate development
Urbanization
Verstädterung
Stadtplanung
China
China
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