Check out this TV report on massive cities the Chinese government is building that have no inhabitants:

The reason is of course that construction activity boosts the country's GDP figures, even though by any measure this is insane. Be skeptical of China's quoted growth--a lot is illusory.

Scary....

There's an undertone of Prypriat in those images. Weird.

A whole lot of irrational exuberance led to that over building..

the video's still reminds me of I am legend

Those malls look like a good place to film a Brues Brothers movie. ;-)

There's an undertone of Prypriat in those images. Weird.

Hadn't though of that, but I can definitely see it now that you mention it.

A whole lot of irrational exuberance led to that over building..

Makes the exuberance that fueled the real estate bubble in CA, AZ and NV circa late 2000s look like a little burp.

This not an exuberance of over building ......... it's a goverment creating dangerously large false economy thats doomed to failer.