(June 6, 2014) In an astonishing new twist on the road to urbanization, China’s local governments are bulldozing mountains into valleys to manufacture flat land for cities and towns — the latest in the faux GDP-maximizing construction and development projects that have given rise to China’s notorious ghost cities, malls and theme parks. In a paper published this week by the London-based scientific journal Nature, Chinese academics sound the alarm on the current mountaintop surgery for land creation strategy, saying the consequences of doing so “have not been thought through environmentally, technically or economically.” Continue reading ![]()
