December 20, 2010

Eerie Chinese Ghost Cities

Reports of Chinese ghost cities have been trickling in for over a year. Previously, these reports were nothing more than abstract statistics but new images put a very real face on those figures.

Like a cheesy sci-fi flick where the human population has mysteriously vanished, these ghost cities sit eerily vacant while dead leaves collect in unswept and unused foyers. This is not Hollywood’s latest blockbuster but a stark reality.

Finance Asia reports that about 64 million apartments and houses have remained empty over the last 6 months. A truly shocking statistic considering that this figure represents potential housing for roughly 200 million people or almost two-thirds of the population of The United States.

9 comments:

  1. That would be an awesome visit for urban exploration type stuff. Weird shit though bro...

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  2. Creepy, any clue why they left those households?

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  3. they vanished, just like that massive traffic jam early this year.

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  4. I am now following your awesome blog, glad I found it.

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  5. Wow. That's really creepy; I'm going to have to go out and find some images of these ghost cities. Following :)

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  6. ...that's a lot of people.

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