Spanish Ghost Cities
Wed, 10/15/2008 - 09:59 — Anonymous
Spain’s economic downturn means that its rampant property development is galloping way, way ahead of potential buyers. And this means ghost cities — in one instance just 750 people living in a development comprising 13,000 residential units. It’s a trend across the Iberian peninsula: Solveig Nordlund filmed Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude, her 2002 feature-film adaptation
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