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CHINA is awash with “ghost cities” where apartment blocks stand abandoned or mothballed with some 65million empty homes. The dystopian landscape of empty high-rises, expansive parks and… ...
Xu Pengcheng looks over his shoulder and, after confirming the coast is clear, helps his crew of urban adventurers climb ...
The incredible £68bn city that’s missing one crucial thing as it stands largely empty This £68 billion city was built to tackle overpopulation but stands largely empty.
A city in one of China’s poorest provinces is awash in half-built roads and apartment blocks, symbolic of the mounting debt crisis facing municipalities around the country after years of ...
In 2016, Country Garden unveiled a $100 billion project in Malaysia called Forest City. It was supposed to accommodate nearly 1 million people. Eight years on, the complex is virtually empty.
China’s real-estate bust left behind tens of millions of empty housing units. Now that historic glut of unoccupied property is colliding with China’s shrinking population, leaving cities stuck ...