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The ghost city in China
Creation <> Destruction
Natural <> Man made
Genetic <> Cultural
Ecology <> Economy
Landform <> Land settlement
Quantity <> Quality
Preservation <> Development
鬼城
鬼城
河南鄭州市鄭東新區
150 km2, 19B USD
2 finance centers
Museums, exhibitions
15 universities
Residential buildings for 0.2B people Unoccupancy rate is 90
內蒙古鄂爾多斯市-新城 2004
32 km2 for residential, 530 km2 for industrial areas
Design for 1 M people
Now only 28,600 people
鬼城
Ordos
Industrial
transfo
rmation
Economic
Transition
Land
Settlement
About those
ghost cities in China
Located around 40 different places in China
Built to help sustain China’s economy of $8 trillion – half of
which is from construction
Yale professor, Stephen Roach, states that these cities
were built in anticipation of future urbanization
 Cities must be built in advance to absorb mass migrations
 Ghost cities will be occupied in the next 10-15 years
China’s urbanization pace: Expect to reach 65%
within next 10 years
China Urbanization by 2025
China Urbanization by 2025
China Urbanization by 2025
China Urbanization by 2025
China Urbanization by 2025
China Urbanization by 2025
China Urbanization by 2025
Formation of ghost city
rural urban
Urbanization
GDP
Politics
Economy
Ghost
city
It is a 城(cheng),
it is not a 市(chi)
Shanghai Pudong
From ghost city to golden
city
The area of Pudong in Shanghai was largely unoccupied until
the turn of the century (2000)
As China’s economy boomed and people and businesses
flooded to Shanghai, Pudong began to thrive
Pudong is now home to wealthy residents as well as many
foreign and domestic businesses
5.5M people live in Pudong
Shanghai's advantages: a strong industrial base, widespread
prosperity and favorable geography at the mouth of the Yangtze
River.
Pudong: Past vs. Present
Ghost city ‘saves’ China?
Ghost city now stands for
Rapid urban planning
Over construction
Real estate bubble
Economic
Failure
Ontology
entirety
synthesis
Ethics
Simplicity
purity
Knowledge
Yin-
yung, Wu
xing
Methodology
feng shui
Daoist
Traditional Chinese Thinking Pattern
needs to be back to Modern China
Engineerin
g
activities
Social
life
Traditional
Chinese
Thinking
Pattern
Natural
environmen
t
Dujiang Dam
How Human Beings Can Live in Harmony with Nature
Fish mouth levee
divides the water into inner and outer streams

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Ghost city in China

Notas del editor

  1. The Zhengzhou museum — sure, it looks like a clutch of golden Easter eggs
  2. There are lots of natural materials like coal, oil, gas, cashmere and also construction materials like marble and granite.The planning and operation of large scale Chinese modern engineering projects have benefited from the mobilization of money and resources and support within the social organism.There is no influence by market supplies and demands.
  3. Building a city in the middle of a desert. People expected a industrial transformation and economic transition through a new land settlement.Construction and destruction keep growing up GDP and underpinning economy. Furthermore, this life cycle satisfied the need of political ecology.But they do not have as many customers as they expected. if they don&apos;t have enough customers with deep enough pockets to foot the bill now, why not wait? Something still doesn&apos;t add up. It still smells like a huge scam to me
  4. So if Stephen is correct how do you explain the fact that it will cost at least as much as the construction to keep those buildings in shape and running.
  5. Land settlement- western practice Build a modern cityin rural area with no market
  6. Changhaipudong once being mocked as a purpose-built version of Manhattan, as overdesigned and under occupied, evidence in steal and glass of properties. A decade ago, Pudong was an urban-development model failureguided by state planners, a soulless district where 70% of the buildings stood empty.  But now, the district&apos;s transformation into a vibrant nexus for finance, trade and entertainment is testament to factors like the strong momentum of Chinese migration toward urban centers. 
  7. Analyst: IAin’t afraid of No ‘Ghost Cities’, Feb. 27, 2013 WSJWhy truly crap investment saves China?He pointed out that by investing ghost city to underpin growth, China saved itself from even more unwise overinvestment in area that could have done lasting damage to the Economy, such as manufacturing
  8. Historically, china had been tied to the tradition of grand unification projects, such as the construction of the great wall, grand canal.Market economic rule against, rapid urban planning
  9. Building a city in the middle of a desert. People expected a industrial transformation and economic transition through a new land settlement.Land form- traditional chinese thinking patternPractices with this pattern would be based on the ideals of harmony, human perfectibility and systematic fit with natural systems and processes.
  10.  The Dujiang Dam irrigation project is the oldest large-scale irrigation project in the history of the world. It has been supporting people in Sichuan Province, China, for more than 2,000 years. Fish mouth levee, flying sand weir and bottle neck channel, as an organic unity and enables them to perform the three function s organically: flood diversion, sand discharge, and irrigation Supply. This case is good practice of ontology which is able to eliminate the possible conflicts bwtween diverse parts of engineering practice