# The long ladder steps of the Bangbang

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Podcast: [Cities and Memory - remixing the world](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world-942987)
Published: 2026-06-02T17:32:33+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8910939
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## Resource

Locals in Chongqing call these steep stairways “long ladder steps.” This recording captures one such corridor, still tread by “bangbang” porters. It’s morning school rush: vendors hawk, footsteps echo, delivery station chatter booms, and schoolkids’ jabber rings from afar—all swirling in a hundred-step passage. Cities with Z-axis terrain stack buildings vertically, weaving complex, layered echoes with distinct character. (“Bangbang” refers to porters who use a metre-long, wrist-thick bamboo stick to carry goods, climbing hundreds of steps to haul cargo from riverboats to upland warehouses. Only a few dozen remain today.) Recorded in Chongqing, China by Digimonk.

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