Welcome to the most ironically-named city in China. A would-be utopia, rapidly constructed for a population of one million (that failed to materialize), the futuristic city of Ordos, which takes its name from ordo, the Mongolian word for crowd and the root for the English word ‘horde’, has been almost totally abandoned. The stunning landscape left behind in the following images is both disturbing and confirming of China’s epic mal-investment boom…