Chengdu Planning Exhibition Hall

About this audio guide

The Chengdu Planning Exhibition Hall lays out the city's story in four master plans, from nineteen fifty-four to two thousand eleven, each one promising tidier growth than the last. But this guide turns that orderly display against itself, opening with a land-agency director who walked into a discipline office on his own in February two thousand twenty-three. From there it follows the officials pulled into the same investigation over the following months, tracing how the machinery that decided which parcels of the city got sold or rezoned came under scrutiny. Stand at the sand-table model and consider how many of those blocks passed through the offices this guide describes.