Kangbashi

Back in 2013 I wrote about China's aggressive project to move 250 million people from the countryside into cities. To accomplish this, some cities were built from scratch before they had occupants - called the "ghost cities."

The largest of these is Kangbashi in northern China. Built for a million people about ten years ago, it's inhabited only by about a tenth of that number.

A French photographer has produced a book about the big, empty buildings of the city surrounded by desert, called Ordos - A Failed Utopia. See some of the photos here.

(note - links corrected)