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Cities in the US are not crowded by any metric. Homelessness is typically not because of lack of housing either (I know that sounds weird to say) but more so di
by muninn_ 10y ago
Cities in the US are not crowded by any metric. Homelessness is typically not because of lack of housing either (I know that sounds weird to say) but more so disease, mental health problems, lack of employment opportunities or in some cases employment desire.
At first glance your comment sounds great, yeah China is just anticipating demand, but it seems much more likely it was a wonton spending spree to help the economy continue on. With that spending spree coming to a halt, now China has millions of steelworkers, miners, construction works, etc... out of work.
Nobody is going to want to live in those cities because they want to live in established cities. Ask yourself, if the goal was to anticipate demand, why wouldn't you do all of this construction alongside established cities? Why would you often times do it in the middle of nowhere?
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoMost are filled (already). An estimated 250M will be moving to cities in the next decade. The few much-publicized empty cities are due to bad planning of course. But that doesn't mean they didn't have great success with others. And the new plan going forward is to 'urbanize' already-existing places, which means building an urban center around an existing town. So it can expand outward, starting with a core of city services and administration.