Tag: ghost cities

  • Filling in the blanks

    Read in ‘Ghost cities of China’ (2014) of Wade Shepard:   So how does the story end? In ‘Ghost Cities of China’, the New York based writer Wade Shepard tells ‘the story of cities without people in the world’s most populated country’. “Between now and then, the country’s urban population will leap to over one…

  • Building debt

    Read in NRC Handelsblad of 28 August 2015:   Prime minister Li Keqiang of China is in a difficult political position. For more than seven weeks now the Chinese exchange is in a crisis. Li Keqiang, the Amsterdam based newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported, has an agenda of restructuring the Chinese economy, but will he succeed? …