Erenhot, Ordos, Zhengdong, Bayannaoer, Changgong, Dantu: new Chinese cities that have gained infamy for being built but never inhabited. They have been ominously dubbed as “ghost cities,” failed development projects on metropolitan scale. It is estimated that China has built over 500 new cities since 1978, and plans to complete hundreds more by 2020. This is a new model for urban development, one that has perhaps never been attempted before in human history on such an extreme scale.

 

2008 Ordos 100 project site

Plan for Ordos 100 project masterplanned by Ai Weiwei and architecturally curated by Herzog and de Meuron

 

Dantu New District

Dantu: then and now. Satellite image that was used as evidence that Dantu was a ghost city in 2010 overlaid with photos of how it is now.

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