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The Abandoned City San Zhi
Category: Architecture Matters | 25 October 2006


Talk about ghost city, this must be the next best abandoned city after the Chernobyl Town. originally built as a luxury vacation retreat for the rich, it was abandon due to numerous fatal accidents during the construction. According to rumors, this ghost city is now haunted by those who died building it.
The area is called San Zhi. There are no named architects since the whole site was commissioned by the government and several local firms. I guess this project may never be restarted and with these rumors going spreading like wild fire, there would be no value in re-developing the area for other purpose, anyway destroying homes of lonely spirits is a bad thing to do, unless you’re in Singapore, when land is so limited. You got no choice but to dig up the dead and convert the tranquil resting ground for 58,000 dead into 12,000 centrally located, high-rise apartments for the living.
If you happen to have Google Earth, then download this file - San Zhi Google Earth Aerial View. Happy Halloween.


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An Abandoned Village in Italy : mirage.studio.7
on August 3rd, 2007[...] The website mention that the village is abandoned but never state the reason, no name of the village or exact location. Isn’t it weird how a village of such magnitude was abandon? Visit the website for more images. This reminds me of the abandon city San Zhi in Taiwan. [...]
Gwen
on January 15th, 2008actually, it’s not abandoned city! Now it is still a pretty town located in taipei county!Twenty or thirty years ago, it was a beautiful vacation center. They were abandoned because the manufacturer and the land owner couldn’t make the agreement. Later, it just located there but no one know what really happend in that time and then start to brougt some weird ghost story..
Annie
on January 16th, 2008It’s just a rumor. The building company stopped building the hotel resort due to lack of funding. According to the news in Taiwan, this place will be torn out by the end of this year. No ghosts around this place.
what the
on January 16th, 2008it’s not real man….it’s not never haunted…never died building the house…so please do not state this as the abandoned city…