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Baidu Data Research Reveals China's Ghost Cities (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Chinese web services giant, Baidu, has embarked on a new study in which it uses location information from users' mobile devices, as well as mapping and building data, to identify areas with high volumes of construction with relatively low population densities — known as 'ghost cities.' The researchers, in the published findings Ghost Cities: Analysis Based on Positioning Data in China, were able to discount areas which experienced high levels of tourism which skew the figures in peak seasons. The Baidu Big Data team discovered 50 ghost cities, although only 20 of these were revealed in the report to avoid potential harm to the real estate market in these areas.
China's so-called ghost cities are actually just very, very new. http://blogs.reuters.com/great... What actually seems to happen is that developers (the real estate kind, not the Steve Ballmer kind) buy land for cheap because it's far from any existing population center, but Chinese law requires them to build something rather than sitting on it. So all these developers build all this stuff, and after a few years people start moving in and the ghost cities become just plain cities.
Writhe your naked ass to the mindless groove.
By "the 70s" and "Reagan", you probably mean the 50's and the Department of Housing under the LBJ administration. If anyone tried it after that, they had no excuse.
LBJ wasn't in office 'til the 60's. And the parks directory of NYC shares much of the blame, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Which has been the typical result of every communist country (self-declared communist, at that) ever.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!