Wander through Tianducheng, a replica of Paris hidden in Hangzhou, China. Once built as a luxury dream, it now stands ...

Tianducheng: China’s Failed “Paris” Tianducheng, nicknamed “ China’s Paris,” represents another failed urban project. The town isn’t just a few streets with French names.

The incredible £800m city that's 'the Paris of Asia' but is now a 'ghost town' Its designers recreated some of Paris' most iconic features, even giving the city its own Eiffel Tower - though at ...

This is because it is largely vacant, with wealthy property prospectors spotting the success of Little Paris and snapping up real estate in Thames Town. Many of the properties seemingly operate as ...

It declined into a ghost town early in the 20th century and in 1962 became a state park. Park officials maintain its 110 surviving buildings to prevent them from declining further so that some ...

Posted: December 16, 2024 | Last updated: March 5, 2025 Discover Tianducheng, a Paris lookalike in China, and its unique blend of French architecture and ghost town vibes.

Writer Wade Shepard first observed the phenomenon of China's ghost cities in the early 2000s. While exploring the nation's eastern provinces, Shepard made an accidental wrong turn at the bus station ...

It was deemed a ghost town, also largely due to where it was situated, some 145km from Shanghai. Tianducheng is a luxury real estate development in China that’s a carbon copy of Paris.

Group explored China's eerie 'failed $1 billion copy of Paris' and were in complete shock over what they saw The YouTubers couldn't believe what they experienced in the Chinese city of Tianducheng ...

It didn't take long before people started referring to this Paris photocopy in China as a ghost town. In recent years however, Tianducheng has seen a gradual rise in population as China’s ...

Tianducheng opened in 2007, and is undeniably modelled after the French city of Paris. Initially, it could accommodate about 10,000 residents within its 30sqkm land area. For comparison, the Tampines ...