A lot of those cities have the apartments built and sold before they put in commercial areas and most importantly things like subways. There was an episode of S

A lot of those cities have the apartments built and sold before they put in commercial areas and most importantly things like subways. There was an episode of Sinica where a guest was talking to a person that bought one of the ghost apartments but wasn't living in it because there wasn't a subway line. The guest went back to the area once the subway opened and most of the apartments were full and roads were being used. I think it was this episode[0] but not 100% sure. I know the section I'm talking about was towards the end of the episode. 0 - http://supchina.com/sinica/beautiful-country-middle-kingdom-john-pomfret/ http://supchina.com/sinica/beautiful-country-middle-kingdom-...