Re:A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnes...
by imtringued on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @05:42AM
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>You can't just plop down a fully-furnished city on some unpopulated plot of land and expect anyone to move there. China as you say is trying this, but some of these are basically ghost towns on arrival, despite the massive top-down planning and investment. [1]
The planned cities in China are basically big buildings. Would you move into a building that is still in construction? No, you would not. Once it's finished you still need people to move in. That's not something that happens immediately. You have to wait a decade and then you'll see that those ghost towns are not ghost towns at all. It's a common misconception.
The real difference between China and the USA is that there are lots of rural migrants within China looking for an urban place to settle down.
The planned cities in China are basically big buildings. Would you move into a building that is still in construction? No, you would not. Once it's finished you still need people to move in. That's not something that happens immediately. You have to wait a decade and then you'll see that those ghost towns are not ghost towns at all. It's a common misconception.
The real difference between China and the USA is that there are lots of rural migrants within China looking for an urban place to settle down.