Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Cerritos簡介

下列的網站屬於知名雜誌<經濟學人報>,这篇文章介绍了我们居住的南加州小镇--Cerritos。请欣赏。

康男

2 comments:

jannet said...

i didn't know that the concept of a mega auto mall started in cerritos.

i wonder what the economist would say about irvine, a centrally-planned truman-world town.

Ken Chang said...

Regarding the mega auto square, I didn't believe it either when I moved into this wonderful town. Believe it or not, the Cerritos Center for Performing Arts is 100% supported by the car dealers housed in the Cerritos Auto Square. It turns out less significant nowaday because other auto malls copy-cat it and make much bigger in size.

The neighboring town mentioned in the Economist article is virtually Artesia from which Cerritos was splitted 50 years ago. Artesia is compared to Cerritos by being scaled down. But the fact is that Artesia is trying to catch up Cerritos. The only chance is that 99 Ranch Market has brought in a lot more buisnesses into Artesia on Pioneer Boulevard. The Little India in a sense does very little or even no impact to Artesia. Anyway, what I'm trying to suggest is that Taiwanese/Chinese make Artesia become more prosperous one way or another.

Ken Chang