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Lavasa is a privately planned city in the Indian state of Maharashtra and sits along the shores of Dasve Lake. It was designed to blend modern urban living with natural beauty, inspired by the Italian town of Portofino. While this sounds great, the reality has not been as such. In 2018 the developers of the city, Lavasa Corporation defaulted on debts estimated at around ₹6,000 crore (60 billion rupees / $720 million USD). This left many planned homes, amenities and infrastructure unfinished, leaving a partially built and decaying town. This project also faced severe backlash for unauthorized hill-cutting, deforestation, and alteration of water bodies alongside conflicts over land acquisition from local Adivasi tribal population who claimed they were cheated with legal cases arguing the return of land to them still continuing to this current day. While the city is not fully abandoned, a majority of it is with fewer than 2000 permanent residents. However, certain institutions and amenities including schools, businesses, restaurants, and stores continue to operate leaving its future uncertain.

The Pizza Hut roofs are always so easy to spot haha

Ordos City is a prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, China. It is most famous for its futuristic but empty district of Kangbashi. It was built for over a million people but lacks a large number of residents and has a much lower population density than infrastructure suggests. It features modern architecture, vast plazas, and high-tech infrastructure, but has become a symbol of overdevelopment. It is now increasingly used for autonomous vehicle testing, but has been seeing a slow revival with growing population and businesses, particularly due to educational development through relocation of prestigious schools. However, it still remains known for its stark contrast between grand design and sparse occupancy.

Crispy bottom, fluffy inside with a cheese baked edge topped with extra pepperoni, aged mozzarella, asiago, pecorino, basil, ricotta, oregano, and chili honey

Burj Al Babas is an abandoned luxury real estate development in Mudurnu, Turkey approximately 3 hours away from Istanbul. It consists of hundreds of unfinished, identical Gothic-style "mini-castles." It was planned to include 752 villas, a central domed shopping center, extensive health and beauty facilities, a movie theater, restaurants, and sports facilities. It was designed as luxury holiday homes marketed towards wealthy foreign buyers. Developers went bankrupt in 2018 after falling oil prices and a struggling Turkish economy. This led to high debt and buyer defaults which was after over $200 million was sunk into the project.

Indonesia is moving its capital city from Jakarta to a purpose-built city named Nusantara, located in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. This is to relieve overcrowding, pollution, and rising sea levels in Jakarta. It is designed to be a "green" city that aims to reach carbon-neutral goals by 2045. The project spans over $45 billion and construction began in July 2022 and is on track for a 2028 completion.

Rather than being a planned city, it was developed in the 1950s as a literal land sale scheme marketed towards out of state buyers that wanted cheap waterfront access with over 400 miles of man-made canals. This resulted in an endless suburban hellscape that is unwalkable, unsustainable, and extremely car-dependent. Its design leads to severe traffic, environmental degradation, high vulnerability to flooding / storm surges, lack of local amenities, and high property insurance costs.