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.
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.