This Is 'Pardis' A City In The Middle Of A Desert, Now A Ghost Town
Imagine setting out to build a mega?city,?with all the latest infrastructure and amenities, only to be abandoned midway. That is the simplified story of Pardis, a ghost town in Iran. Pardis, which means?Paradise?was envisioned as a satellite city of the Iranian capital?Tehran, and was supposed to help decongest it.
Why Pardis was built?
Located some 50?kms?away from Tehran, Pardis?was built?between 2001 and 2011. And it had everything going for it -- public transportation, hospitals, schools?and?even parks.
But the construction of the paradise was never completed and was abandoned leading to its slow death today. According to reports, a combination of factors led to the city being uninhabitable.
Good planning, bad execution?
This includes its location, which was in the middle of a desert, faulty sewage systems and heating in apartments, inadequate access to water, and intermittent electricity supply.
Additionally, many of these buildings were damaged in the 2017 earthquake.?
Paradise to ghost town?
Today all that is left are some identical buildings in the middle of nowhere, with no trees, no cars, no parks, no people, and no signs of life.
Some have argued that the lack of planning, to connect Pardis with Tehran was one of the major reasons why no one wanted to move there.
While these abandoned projects are supposed to be satellites?to?Tehran, they are too far away for many people to do anything other than spend all of their day commuting and then working.
Interestingly, some people do occupy some of the apartments on offer in the high-rise buildings.
The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 73,363 people in 23,938 households. But most of these people work in Tehran and only return to Pardis at night to sleep.
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