New and Old #238
Chinese retail, insurance and natural disasters, city character amid change, and unfortunate history
The Retail Hits Different, The Overhead Wire by Jeff Wood, October 15, 2025
My experience with the larger second-tier cities like Taiyuan and Datong in smaller provinces (again I’m not going to claim to be an expert and am just going off observation) is that the hyper density changes the retail landscape from an urbanism and business competition perspective dramatically compared to U…
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