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September 19, 2013

Australian Journalist Who Reported On China's "Ghost Cities" Goes Back Two Years Later

Both videos below. Two years ago, Australian journalist Adrian Brown traveled to China to report on their urban development projects (really, just plain old creating cities from scratch). What he found was endless construction, large vacant high-rises everywhere and virtually no one to be found.

He took a trip back this month, and it's mostly the same. New, gigantic and insane projects are still ongoing as well as being planned and the cities remain mostly deserted. They even tried to build their own Paris, Eiffel Tower and all. These Chinese "Ghost Cities" have become so infamous that tourists from around the world come to see what a huge empty city looks like. As Chris Hayes would say, it's amazing.

More pictures and info over at Business Insider.

The first report is here:

The latest:

If the embedded videos aren't working for you, the first one is here and the second is here.

posted by JohnE. at 02:40 PM

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