Putrajaya a la Paris: 6 planned cities that suddenly appeared on the map

The bean-shaped Ordos Museum in Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia. Kangbashi is often referred to as China's largest ghost city.

Putrajaya isn’t the only field of dreams in this world. Other planned cities have also risen – and fallen – in the belief that if you built it, they will come. Sometimes, they don’t.

Put your denim jackets away. Hard Rock Café Putrajaya will not be opening anytime soon, despite the inventor of Putrajaya declaring that he modelled the planned city after Paris and not the holy city of Medina as some people had thought.