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China Builds Desert Ghost Cities
- neworbit 15y agoOk, so if you want people to move out of their current overcrowded cities to somewhere else, I guess it makes sense in a command economy to build the cities and then move them in. What happens if people don't want to move, though?
- nodata 15y agoYou make them move.
- sek 15y agoSpain, Dubai and now China. I heard the exact words from constructors in Dubai: "We sold them before we build them". The formula is very easy: When building is more profitable than let people living inside them, the real estate market is overpriced. And if there are mechanics, which prevent the market from readjusting, a bubble is generated. Ghost towns are the best examples you can get. I can hear these intelligent people in the future: "Ooooh nobody has seen this coming. We were thinking Chinas economy can grow forever with these rates". I bet all these "biggest economy in 10 years" reports are all based on these assumptions. This thing will be way bigger than Dubai (20 ghost towns for 1Mio so far OMG) and probably result in a new gigantic financial crisis. You read it here first.
- sek 15y agoIt's worse, they talk about 64 Million properties. Very good Documentary btw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E