Chinese city built to look like Paris Tianducheng remains eerily quiet despite the recent increase in its population (Image: GETTY) Construction at Tianducheng, eastern China , began in 2007.

The abandoned city that looks like 'post-apocalyptic' Paris with its own Eiffel tower The city was supposed to be a unique and luxurious place to live, but it never really took off.

I f anyone was ever wondering what a post-apocalyptic Paris might look like, they don't have to imagine it anymore. That's thanks to a failed real estate project in China that tried to copy the ...

Stunning replicas of London, New York and Paris have sprung up in China: But, as IAN WILLIAMS finds out, there's only one problem with Beijing's remarkable copycat cities - no one lives in them ...

Built in 2007 by Chinese developers, Sky City was intended as a luxury housing estate for the wealthy. Yet the forecasted 10,000 residents for which the city had developed did not materialize.

Inside China’s ‘failed’ $1 billion copy of Paris. It looks exactly like Paris, but it’s not. ... Tianducheng isn’t the only city in China with an uncanny familiarity.

CHINA is home to a £500million dupe of one of Italy’s most popular tourist spots – but the “fake” city appears to be a far cry from the real deal. The so-called Venice of Ch… ...