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China's Ghost Cities and Malls

Even the most dynamic country in the world is facing a lack of vibrancy in some of its cities. This documentary takes a look at the strange phenomena of ghost cities in China, where time appears to have stopped.
Documentary by SBS Dateline (Australian TV) about the Chinese real estate market.
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Szilvia Varga

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December 05, 2011, 10:53PM
Oh yeah, the side effects of most planned economies.
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valentina downey

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December 04, 2011, 11:41AM
Dreadful! Human, people aren't in center of thoughts! Mall, shopping and house are not a city. GDP isn't a system to calculate our well being! When are we happy? When is people life good? When do they live together well? So China will not the next world power.
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Linda Mendoza

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December 04, 2011, 05:25AM
shocking and quite alarming....makes me cringe at the environmental cost in terms of resource consumption and pollution at this scale. reminded me of the film, Manufactured Landscapes:
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=manufacturedlandscapes
thanks for sharing this nightmarish warning. it really is about quality, not quantity or size.
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Anne-Laure Fayard

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November 25, 2011, 05:53AM
Thanks for sharing Francois. Very interesting, yet scary. A lot of food for thought.

It reminded me some of the conversations about Singapore and vibrancy, and the tension between design(or maybe better to say engineering) and emergence of vibrancy: http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/inspiration/singapore-vibrant-or-dying-/
It also relates to the question of the relationship between vibrancy and economic success: http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/inspiration/take-a-step-back-/

thanks!
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Aileen Wu

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November 25, 2011, 05:31AM
good reminder of how not to seed a city/community!
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