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Originally Posted by fflint
But I don't see this leading to a bunch of bombed-out Chinese Detroits. That is very unlikely.
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For the record, I wasn't saying it's likely either... just that if it did happen, god help these places, because the problem would be magnified by the massive scale of development.
However, even today you do read about "ghost town" cities in China that were built by the government and remain mostly empty. I don't know how much of that is true, but I do believe that the more central planning is involved, rather than organic settlement, the more likely it is that these places will be abandoned when the planning regime goes away.