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It's a failure of planning if those new units fall into disrepair before being rented.
by ng12 8y ago
It's a failure of planning if those new units fall into disrepair before being rented.
- crazygringo 8y agoNowhere does it say the buildings are falling into disrepair. On the other hand, if you would otherwise have high unemployment right now that can productively be channeled into construction that is less expensive to achieve, while you expect a massive influx of people in 15 years with a tight labor market... then it makes perfect economic sense to build out a decade in advance. I'm not saying this is the case, but there are plenty of reasons why building in advance can make sense.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoChinese construction methods heavily use concrete and cheap low skilled labor, they have to overbuild significantly so that those buildings don’t fall apart. But this also means maintnence is a huge problem, a building that was “new” five years ago will often look very shabby today; if built 10 years ago the concrete is already crumbling in a few places. 20 years...tear it down and rebuild.
- ng12 8y agoThere's lot of videos of urban explorers who travel China looking for these places, and many of them are in complete disrepair. Even if you don't trust the CNN/NYT narrative, those are harder to discount. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TbOPzpeKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TbOPzpeKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wuyRxc99h8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wuyRxc99h8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL9qfucWqu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL9qfucWqu0
- kkarakk 8y agohaha that last video has a guy cycling through an indoor marble floor mall and a dog just casually wander in.