Wade Shepard

Ghost Cities of China (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783602216
• Artikelnr.: 42645547

Autorenporträt

Wade Shepard is Editor in Chief at The China Chronicle

Inhaltsangabe

1. The New Map of China 2. Clearing the Land 3. Of New Cities and Ghost
Cities 4. When Construction Ends the Building Begins 5. Megacities Inside
of Megacities 6. A New City, A New Identity 7. No Going Back 8. Powering
the New China 9. Staying Afloat 10. What Ghost Cities Become