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by lelanthran 798 days ago
> Lots of half built buildings in middle India.

That's not usually what we mean by "Ghost cities". I just checked wikipedia to be sure, for both "ghost cities" and "under occupied developments in China"[1] which leads with:

     Under-occupied developments in China are mostly unoccupied property developments in China, and frequently referred to as "ghost cities" or ghost towns.
Half-built structures aren't comparable to the common understanding of the term "ghost cities".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...

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That's what they mean in China as well.

The same way you book a flat from DLF and wait for them to build the shell, that's the same process if you buy a flat from Evergrande or Wanda (tbt)