01864nmm a22002777a 4500 ES-BaAUN 20221223105539.0 221102| ||||go||d|||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2575-5374 ES-BaAUN eng ES-BaAUN Massachusetts institute of technology author. (Civic Data Design Lab) Ghost Cities: Built but Never Inhabited UrbanNext, June 7, 2018. 673 words. 000308 Civic Data Design Lab, Data, expanding design practices, High Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms China, Cities, City development, Data, Economy, Global Awareness, Housing market, Planetary urbanizations, Politics, Real State, Research, Urban growth, Urban Paradigms, Urban research, Urbanization Researchers: Shin-bin Tan, Zhekun Xiong, Changping Chen, Michael Foster, Xinhui LI, Xudong Sun, Dalma Foldesi, Amber Guo, Elena Vanz Project Leaders: Sarah Williams and Wenfei Xu (Project Manager) Exhibition Curators: Sarah Williams, Wenfei Xu, Chaewon Ahn Ghost Cities are vacant neighborhoods and sometimes whole cities that were built but were never inhabited. Their existence is a physical manifestation of Chinese overdevelopment in real estate and the dependence on housing as an investment strategy. Little data exists which establishes the location and extent of these Ghost Cities in China. MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab developed a model using data scraped from Chinese social media sites and Baidu (Chinese Google Maps) to create one of the first maps identifying the locations of Chinese Ghost Cities. Mapping Urbanism Research China https://urbannext.net/ghost-cities/ Access to info ddc CF 0 1050 1050 0 0 ddc 0 0 9876543210 9876543210 2022-12-23 0 2022-12-23 2022-12-23 CF