San Francisco just built a short subway to Chinatown. Not quite clear why.
SF's Chinatown is stuck in the 1950s. It's not modern China. No black-glass skyscrapers in exotic shapes. No outposts of Shenzhen manufacturers. It's mostly a retirement village.
> Chinatown is stuck in the 1950s. It's not modern China.
This is a really weird complaint. SF Chinatown is a neighborhood settled by mostly Cantonese speaking immigrants in the mid 19th century, and still mostly inhabited by descendants of Chinese immigrants who moved to the US generations ago. Why would you expect it (or want it) to be "modern China"?
>San Francisco just built a short subway to Chinatown. Not quite clear why.
Largely to set the stage for service to the Richmond.
>It's mostly a retirement village.
A testament to the resilience of the community in the face of an ongoing housing supply shortage. There is no doubt immense pressure from our typical economic processes to displace retirees from the place that they've lived their entire lives. You'd rather see old folks trapped in car-dependent suburbia, eventually unable to drive themselves to their basic needs?
SF's Chinatown is stuck in the 1950s. It's not modern China. No black-glass skyscrapers in exotic shapes. No outposts of Shenzhen manufacturers. It's mostly a retirement village.