Ghost Town Paris China
The rapid construction of new towns is being completed at a phenomenal rate in the hope that the future will see a sudden influx of locals filling their vacant rooms.
Ghost town paris china. But over 5500 miles away there is another paris a comparative ghost town where the streets stand nearly empty. The factory attracted droves of people looking for jobs and the eventually employed 200 000 workers. The empty streets of new age ghost cities in china have been attracting international curiosity for years. Its central feature is 108 metre tall 354 foot replica of the eiffel tower and 31 km 2 12 sq mi of parisian style architecture fountains and landscaping.
Tianducheng chinese 天都城 also called sky city is a housing estate in the suburbs of hangzhou zhejiang province china. China s fake cities are eerie replicas of paris london and jackson hole wyoming many places where people live are replicas of other major cities in the world. Screengrab via artist curator caspar stracke new york. It opened in 2007 and can accommodate more than 10 000.
The phenomenon was observed and recorded as early as 2006 by writer wade shepard and subsequently reported by news media over the decades often cast in a negative light. Construction at tianducheng began around 2007. It was meant to be a luxurious gated community resembling paris in every way possible. In the outskirts of shanghai stands a fake eiffel tower overlooking a replica of the champ de mars and rows of parisian townhouses this is not disneyland in china this is the gated community of tianducheng built in 2007 by real estate develepors zhejiang guangsha co.
The development is now more or less abandoned giving it an even eerier ghost town feel. The promise of new jobs jumpstarted the former ghost town seemingly overnight. Photograph by françois prost. China began developing this particular mini city back in 2007 around the same time as little london thames and hallstatt with the.
It was described as a ghost town. Taking counterfeiting to a whole new level. Tianducheng lacks much of what paris has to offer though including people. For example the ghost city of zhengdong rose from the ashes after the local government paid a taiwanese phone manufacturer to open a factory in the city.
That s actually tianducheng a luxury real estate development and paris look alike that s located in hangzhou china.