>China has a lot of experience in this regard with huge, admittedly failed projects of building entire cities from scratch (failed because nobody actually lives

>China has a lot of experience in this regard with huge, admittedly failed projects of building entire cities from scratch (failed because nobody actually lives there). Build it and they will come. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_i... >Although a feature of discourse on the Chinese economy and urbanization in China in the 2010s, many developments that were initially criticized as "ghost cities" in China have since become occupied and are now functioning cities.[5][6][7][8]