In Depth

Ordos – An empty city on the steppe

  • Published 10 Dec 2009

Will a whole new, almost empty 32 sq km city in this coal boomtown ever fill up?

Urbanisation trend:Ordos (Er duo si in Mandarin), a city of Mongolian origin in Inner Mongolia, is an outlier, an extreme example of the effects that rapid wealth accumulation can have on urbanisation.