Shanghai’s European-style ghost towns – in pictures
▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/jul/23/shanghai-china-european-style-ghost-towns-in-pictures
Just a decade after six European-style towns were built to absorb Shanghai’s increasing population, China’s slowing economy has left them mostly deserted. James Bollen’s images record the failure of these empty copycat boroughs
The main square in the British-style Thames Town. Statues of luminaries ranging from Winston Churchill to William Shakespeare, via James Bond, are scattered throughout
Photograph: James Bollen
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