Unfinished Ambitions

• Photographer
  Hui Zhao, China
• China suffers the painful aftermath of its burst real estate bubble, with no clear end to the turmoil. The 2008 four-trillion-yuan stimulus fueled a housing boom, which collapsed amid deflation, economic slowdown and plummeting birth rates, leaving local governments in heavy debt and many projects in ruins. This drone-shot photo series documents these abandoned infrastructures, recording overdevelopment’s cost and prompting reflection on rational urban planning.