Maybe I'm silly, but it kind of looks like a lategame city-builder city, to an extent that I usually don't think of cities as looking like. I guess it's just because of how it looks like it was so heavily planned.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are a lot of places like this in China, often a new planned suburb or district like a half hour drive from the regular city, and planned to house new government buildings, large event centers, new high speed rail stations, airports etc.

They often have this look with wide straight roads, massive intersections, and lots of residential buildings that aren't occupied yet, and lack of small businesses, which is why western media calls them ghost cities i guess

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The concept of building anything before people need it is unthinkable to the Western mind.

You're supposed to restrict access to housing so the streets fill up with homeless people!