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Ghost city phenomenon along China's high-speed railway grid

2017; Inderscience Publishers; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1504/ijssoc.2017.10009349

1756-2546

Dongqing Ma, Shenghuan Zhao,

Transportation Planning and Optimization

A fresh urbanism era appears in China with the development of high-speed railway (HSR). Voluminous numbers of local governments are designing and erecting novel cities oriented to the HSR stations with the objective of gaining benefits from the HSR system. Nevertheless, a huge number of these freshly erected districts or cities entail a tremendously high vacancy rate, thereby resulting in 'ghost cities'. The present paper commences with an outline of the China's urban HSR growth and the phenomena of ghost cities. After a literature review on worldwide urban HSR development, the reasons behind the 'ghost city phenomenon' in China are analysed. In the end, the study is concluded by proposing several suggestions for HSR development.