‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive

Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by crazygringo on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:52PM (#19639080)

Nowhere does it say the buildings are falling into disrepair.

On the other hand, if you would otherwise have high unemployment right now that can productively be channeled into construction that is less expensive to achieve, while you expect a massive influx of people in 15 years with a tight labor market... then it makes perfect economic sense to build out a decade in advance.

I'm not saying this is the case, but there are plenty of reasons why building in advance can make sense.

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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by ng12 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:41PM (#19639531)

There's lot of videos of urban explorers who travel China looking for these places, and many of them are in complete disrepair. Even if you don't trust the CNN/NYT narrative, those are harder to discount.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TbOPzpeKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wuyRxc99h8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL9qfucWqu0

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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by kkarakk on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:19AM (#19644518)

haha that last video has a guy cycling through an indoor marble floor mall and a dog just casually wander in.

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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:28PM (#19639424)

Chinese construction methods heavily use concrete and cheap low skilled labor, they have to overbuild significantly so that those buildings don’t fall apart. But this also means maintnence is a huge problem, a building that was “new” five years ago will often look very shabby today; if built 10 years ago the concrete is already crumbling in a few places. 20 years...tear it down and rebuild.

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