TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shepard,Wade
TI  - Ghost cities of China: the story of cities without people in the world's most populated country 
T2  - Asian arguments
SN  - 9781783602186
AV  - HT 169.57 S547g 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Planned communities
KW  - China
KW  - New towns
KW  - Real estate development
KW  - Planificación comunitaria
KW  - Desarrollo urbano
KW  - Ciudades y pueblos
KW  - Urbanismo
N1  - ""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 Cities""""What 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""
N2  - 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
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