Ghost towns may result when the single activity or resource that created a boomtown e.g. nearby mine mill or resort is depleted or the resource economy undergoes a bust e.g. catastrophic resource price collapse. Boomtowns can often decrease in size as fast as they initially grew. Sometimes all or nearly the entire population can desert the town resulting in a ghost town.The dismantling of a boomtown can often occur on a planned basis. Mining companies nowadays will create a temporary community to service a mine site building all the accommodation shops and services required and then remove them once the resource has been extracted. Modular buildings can be used to facilitate the process. A gold rush would often bring intensive but shortlived economic activity to a remote village only to leave a ghost town once the resource was depleted.In some cases multiple factors may remove the economic basis for a community some former mining towns on U.S. Route suffered both mine closures when the resources were depleted and loss of highway traffic as US was diverted away from places like Oatman Arizona onto a more direct path.In other cases the reason for abandonment can arise from a towns intended economic function shifting to another nearby place. This happened to Collingwood Queensland in Outback Australia when nearby Winton outperformed Collingwood as a regional centre for the livestockraising industry. The railway reached Winton in 1899 linking it with the rest of Queensland and Collingwood was a ghost town by the following year.The Middle East has many ghost towns that were created when the shifting of politics or the fall of empires caused capital cities to be socially or economically unviable such as Ctesiphon.The rise of condominium investment caused for real estate bubbles also leads to a ghost town as real estate prices rise and affordable housing becomes less available. Such examples include China and Canada where housing is often used as an investment rather than for habitation.River rerouting is another factor one example being the towns along the Aral Sea.Ghost towns may be created when land is expropriated by a government and residents are required to relocate. One example is the village of Tyneham in Dorset England acquired during World War II to build an artillery range.A similar situation occurred in the U.S.
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