Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
21/10/2016 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) / Ciudad Valdeluz - Path with streetlights leading to a future residential area in Ciudad Valdeluz, Spain.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240805.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
2016 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) ; Madrid (Spain) / Sesena ; Sesena - Empty basketball court in front of newly constructed buildings in Sesena, south of Madrid, in September 2015.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240806.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
06/10/2019 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) / Ciudad Valdeluz - An inhabitant of Ciudad Valdeluz exercises in the sports center of Ciudad Valdeluz, Guadalajara.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240807.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
2015 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) ; Madrid (Spain) - Newly-constructed housing on sale, in San Vicente de la Barquera, Cantabria.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240808.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
10/04/2017 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) / Ciudad Valdeluz - The young inhabitants of Ciudad Valdeluz play in the sports field of a building complex.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240809.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
13/10/2019 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) / Ciudad Valdeluz - An inhabitant is exercising in the park of Ciudad Valdeluz, Guadalajara.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240810.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
2015 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) - A tarpaulin-covered car, the only car in the neighbourhood, in the Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort, on September 2015. Fuente Alamo de Murcia.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240811.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
17/09/2016 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) - Inhabitants in front of a building complex in Ciudad Valdeluz, Guadalajara.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240812.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Spain, aborted town planning -
18/09/2016 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) - On the ground floor, a dog looks at the street from the balcony of his master's apartment. Ciudad Valdeluz, Guadalajara.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240813.jpg

Guillaume Lassus-Dessus/Le Pictorium -
Aborted Town Planning -
21/10/2016 - Spain / Madrid (Spain) - A city worker cleans the Plaza de la Encina, in Ciudad Valdeluz, Guadalajara.
A mayor has been recently elected and some municipal services started, such as lighting, city cleaning and transports.

Deserted avenues, closed roads, abandoned construction sites and vacant buildings: the ghost towns, everywhere in Spain, are the result of a real estate frenzy, a countrywide boom in construction, promptly stopped by the crisis and the 2007 real estate bubble burst.

Symbol of the ghost town in Europe, Ciudad Valdeluz, located 60km from Madrid, sees every year new inhabitants settling in, its streets becoming more animated little by little and the city's services developing.

LePictorium_0240814.jpg