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kleinbl00  ·  2140 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Boring title, amazing imagery: Burj al Babas and Turkey's collapsing housing market

Both can be true - public works projects are one of the best places to stuff crony money. There are phantom cities in China for the same reason, there were phantom cities in the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany had its fair share.