With an eye for detail and anecdote, curator Stephen Fan employs a selection of maps, photographs, and interviews to demonstrate that suburban design is not nearly as stiff and programmed as we’ve come to believe. This transformation has been expertly documented in SUB URBANISMS, an exhibition on display through March at the Museum of Chinese in America in Lower Manhattan. It’s a product of New York City’s own Chinese communities, a satellite where the spirit of an immigrant enclave inhabits an unfamiliar form: the twentieth-century American suburb. In the shadows of Mohegan Sun, North America’s second-largest casino, a Chinatown is born. ![]() The casino bus lines that feed into Sunrise Square, the Asian gaming section of the adjacent Mohegan Sun casino, draw in Chinese gamers and workers from Boston, New York, and beyond. ![]() The aisle signs at Home Depot have been translated into Mandarin. ![]() Montville, Connecticut, a sprawling township north of New London, is home to the state’s only Chinese-bilingual elementary school. Ranch home in Montville, CT | Photo courtesy of Stephen Fan
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