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  • Ghost Cities of China

    The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country

    de Wade Shepard ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi ... Leer más

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  • Never Let Me Go

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  • Secret Daughter

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  • The Martian

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  • All the Light We Cannot See

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    de Anthony Doerr ...
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  • A House in the Sky

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  • The Industrial Policy Revolution I

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  • Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities

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  • Urbanization in Asia

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