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		<title>How Tall is Too Tall?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/09/how-tall-is-too-tall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubai. Photo by Zeyad T. Al-Mudhaf The Burj Khalifa defies the imagination. It stands nearly one kilometre above the streets of Dubai, spanning a total of 163 floors &#8212; 209 if you could the maintenance levels in the building’s spire. When it was completed in 2010, at a cost of more than US$1.5 billion, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cairo&#8217;s Taxi Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/29/cairos-taxi-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos by Peter Morgan (top), and MatHelium (bottom) Hop in any cab in any city of the world and you&#8217;re likely to be treated to lively political commentary. That&#8217;s especially true in autocratic regimes, where the availability of other spaces in which random strangers can meet and speak openly has often been severely curtailed. Cairo&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s Egypt, Hiding in Plain Sight</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/18/hosni-mubaraks-egypt-hiding-in-plain-sight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Sarah Carr I couldn&#8217;t quite glimpse Hosni Mubarak from my balcony in Garden City, but simply knowing that his portrait was nearby made me unable to shake the sensation of being watched. Not exactly towering over, but nudged by its rooftop mechanicals above the rooflines of the neighborhood&#8217;s decadently decomposing 19th century apartment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Childish Folly of Dubai</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/09/01/dubai-a-childish-folly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/09/01/dubai-a-childish-folly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubai feels like it was designed by a five-year-old boy. What kid doesn&#8217;t get excited about the BIGGEST BUILDING EVER, or the WORLD&#8217;S BIGGEST MALL? And then there&#8217;s the idea of a SEVEN STAR HOTEL. Wow! A real kid’s drawing would have these elements laid out side-by-side, in two dimensions. Drawings by five-year-olds generally don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beirut: Signs of Postwar Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/24/beirut-signs-of-postwar-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/24/beirut-signs-of-postwar-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posters along the former green line calling for &#8220;real change.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Tin</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/06/21/cape-tin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A row of numbered tin shacks in Blikkiesdorp. Photo from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Nestled in a sun-kissed valley amid coastal mountains, pastel-hued, historic Cape Town is arguably one of the world&#8217;s most beautiful cities. So it&#8217;s long been a rude awakening for first time visitors expecting to arrive amid its sweeping vistas and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street View in South Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/06/15/street-view-in-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[View Larger Map Hillbrow, Johannesburg With the world&#8217;s attention trained to the World Cup in South Africa, it&#8217;s a logical time for Google to debut its Street View coverage of the country. People unfamiliar with South Africa now have a chance to peer beyond the stereotypes and get a look at the country as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Personal Space</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/06/15/the-art-of-personal-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Destro and his &#8220;personal space protector&#8221; on the streets of Johannesburg. Photos by Christo Doherty In New York, bulging sidewalks have led to the partial pedestrianization of Times Square and plans for something similar along teeming 34th St. In Cairo, fed up pedestrians often take matters into their own hands, competing with cars to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Nights on Sharia Talaat Harb</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/02/21/white-nights-on-sharia-talaat-harb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/02/21/white-nights-on-sharia-talaat-harb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg / VascoPlanet It&#8217;s two in the morning on Talaat Harb Street, the heart of downtown Cairo, and the sidewalks are sclerotic. People shuffle slowly past shop windows exploding with merchandise. An intense white light beams across the thoroughfare. Avoiding hawkers thrusting t-shirts in their faces, trying to lure them to clothes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Stops on the Cairo Metro</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/04/19/three-stops-on-the-cairo-metro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/04/19/three-stops-on-the-cairo-metro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mar Girgis Saad Zaghloul Giza Pending the completion of Johannesburg&#8217;s Gautrain, the Cairo Metro is the only rapid transit system in Africa. And for all the rot and deterioration that characterizes much of Cairo&#8217;s city center, it&#8217;s surprisingly clean and efficient, with stations that possess a maintenance level and design savvy that would be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Peace in Bujumbura</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/03/24/finding-peace-in-bujumbura/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/03/24/finding-peace-in-bujumbura/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Soderstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The central part of Bujumbura was laid out during colonial days, and features a classic City Beautiful rond-point, around which vehicle traffic is channeled. The Chaussée Prince Louis Rwagazore and the Chausée Peuple Murundi come together here. Bujumbura is the capital of Burundi, Rwanda’s non-identical twin in the Great Lake Region of Central Africa. Like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Nigga Forever&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/03/20/im-a-nigga-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/03/20/im-a-nigga-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m a nigga forever,&#8221; said Yasser, introducing himself. He looked more like a buff Arab in a homeboy costume: big jeans, Nike trainers, and a revolver in his back pocket. Yasser was incongruous with the provincial city of Rada, Yemen. Most people around him were scrawny men in the traditional chequered keffiyah, proudly wearing dangling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bulging Cheeks in Sana&#8217;a</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/02/23/bulging-cheeks-in-sanaa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/02/23/bulging-cheeks-in-sanaa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Sana&#8217;a: bricks and gingerbread Yemen&#8217;s capital is known for its dense streets of brick buildings with white icing. There&#8217;s nothing like it anywhere else. But there&#8217;s another curious and unique thing about Sana&#8217;a: all the men in town have bulging cheeks! Why all the bulging cheeks? The reason is qat, Yemen&#8217;s national addiction. Qat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streetcorners in Alexandria</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/02/15/street-corners-alexandria-egypt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/02/15/street-corners-alexandria-egypt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Donovan</dc:creator>
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