... governments and private investors have even constructed monumental “ghost cities” with “anticipatory” urban infrastructures serving nonexistent residents (Woodworth 2017).1 Infrastructure has become one of the most potent expressions of China’s belated ...
Tópico(s): Economic Zones and Regional Development
2020 - University of Minnesota Press | Verge Studies in Global Asias
Yanpeng Jiang, Nalini Mohabir, Renfeng Ma, Pengyu Zhu,
... strategic urbanism respectively) – to examine the variations across ghost cities in China (both in terms of neoliberal mechanisms and its outcomes).
Tópico(s): Urbanization and
2017 - Elsevier BV | Land Use Policy
Luyao Wang, Hong Fan, Yankun Wang,
... 25.3% in 1987 to 58.5% in 2017, and 'crazy expansion' of city space, the sick phenomenon – 'Ghost Town' – has been brought out, generally defined as ...
Tópico(s): Urban Transport and Accessibility
2019 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Remote Sensing
Max D. Woodworth, Jeremy Wallace,
... growth model? We discuss recent scholarly research into ghost cities and present original findings to show how an excess of urban space may plague certain Chinese cities.
Tópico(s): Homelessness and Social Issues
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Urban Geography
... ambivalences about the postcolonial state and the specter of foreignness in the city. [Ruins; Urbanization; Infrastructure; Socialism; Urban Heritage; Religiosity; Ghosts]
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2017 - Wiley | City & Society
Qiming Zheng, Ying Zeng, Jingsong Deng, Ke Wang, Ruowei Jiang, Ziran Ye,
... Our findings do not only prove the capability of monitoring "ghost cities" using remote sensing data, but would also be beneficial to urban planning and regional sustainable development.
Tópico(s): Night-time
2017 - Elsevier BV | Applied Geography
Jacques Derrida, Lawrence Venuti,
... 1.03alkCaspar Pearson The imaginative struggles of Europe, City 21, no.3-43-4 (Jun 2017): 348–366.https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2017.1325640Wen Guo The Celebration of Ghosts: A Postmodern Theoretical Framework of Meaning-Making in ...
2001 - University of Chicago Press | Critical Inquiry
... doi.org/10.1177/0921374017709239Ali Nehme Hamdan Sites of Memory in Lebanon: The Hariri Mosque in Martyrs Square, (Nov 2017): 145–168.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66622-8_6John Nagle Ghosts, Memory, and the Right to the Divided City: Resisting Amnesia in Beirut City Centre, Antipode 49, no.11 (Jul 2016): 149–168.https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12263Hannes Baumann Social protest and the political economy of sectarianism in Lebanon, Global Discourse 6, no.44 ( ...
Tópico(s): Public Spaces through Art
1997 - University of Chicago Press | Critical Inquiry
Qiming Zheng, Jingsong Deng, Ruowei Jiang, Ke Wang, Xingyu Xue, Yi Lin, Zhou Huang, Zhangquan Shen, Jun Li, Amir Reza Shahtahmassebi,
... GCI are mostly districts and county cities. Tests of typical regions show that non-lit built-up area for high GCI regions is spatially clustered and low population regions have a high tendency to suffer from the “ghost city” phenomenon. Therefore, our findings provide a spatial-explicit insight into the “ghost city” phenomenon, and consequently can be beneficial to assist sustainable urban planning.
Tópico(s): Impact
2017 - Elsevier BV | Habitat International

In the late 2000s, the phenomenon of ghost cities emerged in China, including not only boomtowns such as Ordos but also "ordinary" third‑ and fourth-tier cities such as Changzhou. Based on a conceptual framework of China's land-driven growth machine under entrepreneurial governance, we update the ghost city phenomenon through an in-depth empirical study of a third‑tier city, Changzhou. The objective of this paper is to expand our understanding of how excessive accumulation of real estate assets has ...
Tópico(s): Urban and Rural Development Challenges
2017 - | China Perspectives
Xiaobin Jin, Ying Long, Wei Sun, Yuying Lu, Xuhong Yang, Jingxian Tang,
... cities may exist in the particular urbanizing phase of China and that some ghost cities now may be well developed in the future, this study provides a thorough evaluation on the ghost city condition in China. This may shed light on policy implications for Chinese urban development.
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2017 - Elsevier BV | Cities
... Colonnaded Street and the theatre are presented as “ghost images” through reconstructed 3D models. The focus has been in maintaining the accuracy and validity of the visualised data of the relics and environment of Palmyra, as they were once extant. Following the trauma caused by the destruction of Palmyra, these reconstructions revive in our memory the splendour of the city in the Greco-Roman Period.</p>
Tópico(s): Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
2017 - Technical University of Valencia | Virtual Archaeology Review
... 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.
Tópico(s): Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
2017 - Inderscience Publishers | International Journal of Sustainable Society
Yuegang Song, Yujia Huo, Chen Chen, Jinfu Sun, A. Lü, Xueping Hu, X. Liu,
... Cyprinus carpio carpio), koi (Cyprinus carpio koi), and ghost carp (Cyprinus carpio goi) populations. In this study, we report new outbreaks of the koi herpesvirus (KHV) disease in a koi carp farm in Tianjin city, northern China. From June to September 2017, severe mortalities of koi juvenile and broodstock occurred ...
Tópico(s): Animal Virus Infections Studies
2018 - | Israeli Journal of Aquaculture - Bamidgeh
... shutdowns and restrictions placed on movement.The Old City of Hebron still remains in 2017 similar to a ghost town, most of its streets are deserted and most of its shops are closed by welding iron, unlike the energetic and crowded streets on the other side of the checkpoint in area HI, where the Palestinian commercial activity moved to.Since the Old City of Hebron is an ancient masterpiece that must ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
2018 - WIT Press | WIT transactions on the built environment
"Ghost Cities of China. The Story of Cities Without People in the World’s Most Populated Country." Europe-Asia Studies, 69(6), pp. 998–999
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2017 - Routledge | Europe Asia Studies
... the Informal Economy. New York: Columia University Press, 2017. McKinney, Louise. New Orleans: A Cultural History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.Murphy, Michael. Fear Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Voodoo, Vampires, Graveyards & Ghosts of the Crescent City. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.Piatti- ...
Tópico(s): Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
2017 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
... and attractive for tourists. With a focus on ghost tours, beaches, and new industries in Southern cities, these books examine the links between the construction of history and efforts to market the New South as a tourist destination.
Tópico(s): American Environmental and Regional History
2017 - Duke University Press | Radical History Review
... the first person, and the narrator wanders those cities like a ghost moving through the walls of some ancient ancestral home. There is a sadness, an errancy, to these pieces...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2017 - University of Oklahoma | World Literature Today
... the first person, and the narrator wanders those cities like a ghost moving through the walls of some ancient ancestral home. There is a sadness, an errancy, to these pieces...
Tópico(s): South Asian Cinema and Culture
2017 - University of Oklahoma | World Literature Today
... geographical, economic and political distance of this ‘urban’ ghost are such that the city is now under trusteeship, managed by a public administrator. A small industrial zone still survives, generating income not for Ofakim but to the surrounding kibbutz community, owners of the land.
Tópico(s): Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
2017 - Singidunum University. Faculty of Media and Communications | AM Journal of Art and Media Studies
... Johnson, Andrew Alan. 2013. “Progress and its Ruins: Ghosts, Migrants, and the Uncanny in Thailand.” Cultural Anthropology 28(2):299–319. We apologize for this error. Reference Nelson, Andrew. 2017. “Betrayed by the Neoliberal State, Neglected by the “Jangali” Company: The Anxiety of Autonomy in an Elite Housing Colony in Kathmandu, Nepal.” City & Society 29(1): 35– 58. Volume29, Issue2August 2017Pages ...
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
2017 - Wiley | City & Society
... 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.
Tópico(s): Transportation Planning and Optimization
2017 - Inderscience Publishers | International Journal of Sustainable Society

... during my master’s research, carried out between 2017 and 2019, which addressed apprehensions, experiences and narratives about historic manors located in São Luís – MA. Starting from three public manors in the city’s Centro Histórico, an ethnography was carried out with buildings surveillances professionals in order characterizing the intangible being presences at those places – visions, hauntings, spirits, ghosts and their forms of visual, audible, olfactory or sensory manifestations. Thus, are ...
Tópico(s): Urban and sociocultural dynamics
2021 - Associação Brasileira de Antropologia | Novos Debates
... Opportunities." Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage 4.1 (2017): 21-37. DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2016.1193996. Law, Lisa. "The Ghosts of White Australia: Excavating the Past(s) of Rusty's Market in Tropical Cairns." Continuum 25.5 (2011): 669-681. DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2011.605519. Marcuse, Peter. "From Critical Urban Theory to the Right to the City." City: Cities for People, Not for Profit 13. ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
2022 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
... woods is similar to Lonoff 's clapboard farmhouse (Ghost 3) and Zuckerman's two-room cabin (Stain 36) in the Berkshires. Like them, Zimmerman has renounced the clamor of the city: You can't get anything done here. It has creative energy, but not productive energy. Zimmerman's name, echoing Zuckerman's, means carpenter (literally room man) in German, which further associates him with seclusion. …
Tópico(s): Poetry Analysis and Criticism
2017 - Purdue University Press | Philip Roth Studies
... and Peter Moskowitz’s How To Kill a City (2017) have shown this, albeit with widely differing levels ...
Tópico(s): Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
2019 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Studies in American fiction
Daniel Bakota, Robert Machowski, Arkadiusz Płomiński, Aliaksei RAMANCHUK, Mariusz Rzętała, Lesia Zastavetska,
... with a concrete and steel sarcophagus. The abandoned city of Pripyat, called the "ghost town", is also of unique value to tourism. ...
Tópico(s): Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
2020 - | Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism
... that dynamic context it has become petrified, a ghost city deprived of purpose and meaning by shifts in ...
Tópico(s): Maritime Security and History
2020 - Wiley | History
... Art; and Art in Odd Places, New York City, 2017; and in shows at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He currently resides in New England, where he ...
Tópico(s): Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
2018 - | Aztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies