When a Chinese company agreed to spend £80 billion on a futuristic new city in Malaysia, they’d have been hoping that more than 9,000 people would be living there nearly a decade later. Unfortunately for the developers Country Garden, various factors mean that their dream of building a utopia in ‘Forest City’ have fallen flat, leaving the area resembling something of a ghost town or zombie apocalypse. While things are still well maintained, it is reported that just 15 percent of the planned infrastructure has been built, while local Malaysians have been priced out of renting the few areas that are ready to live in.
More, here.
