On March 24th a group of 100 or so Utopia fans attended a lecture in the southern city of Kunming given by a well-known academic, Han Deqiang, on the Chongqing model.

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Never hesitant about redesigning the environment as his personal Utopia, he promoted his plan for Broadacre City, developed in the 1930s, as a decentralized alternative to suburbia where skyscrapers rose in pastoral settings.

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The city's concrete jumble is far less pretty than the utopia on his screen, but it has the same village-like feel.

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