Real Estate & Urban Development
Property-led development programmes — China's debt-financed ghost cities and Dubai's Palm Jumeirah reclamation.
2 Investigations
Real Estate & Urban Development appears in 2 Project Insider Asia investigations, covering Billion Dollar Failures and Land Reclamation. Featured: China's Ghost Cities and Palm Jumeirah: The Island That Engineering Built and the Crash Nearly Sank.

China's Ghost Cities
China's Ghost Cities: How Rapid Urban Expansion Ran Ahead of Demand

Palm Jumeirah: The Island That Engineering Built and the Crash Nearly Sank
GPS-Guided Dredging, a Crescent Breakwater and an Honest Ledger: Marine…
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