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		<title>Neon History</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/02/01/neon-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chinatown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of the 1980s, after lobbying from businesses and Chinese community leaders, a series of decorative gates were built to mark the various entrances to Montreal&#8217;s Chinatown. One of these is found at the corner of de la Gauchetière and Jeanne-Mance, the western end of the district. But to me, the real signal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding the Market Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/30/rebuilding-the-market-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be routine: wake up, walk to the wet market and buy the day’s fresh ingredients for dinner. Markets have always been a part of Hong Kong life, but these days, they are losing ground to supermarkets, whose numbers have grown exponentially over the past two decades. Chain supermarkets Wellcome and Park’n’Shop now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading the Moscow Metro</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/21/typographical-record-reading-the-moscow-metro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Benigno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taganskaya Station at 36 meters below Moscow streets Taganskaya Station at 53 meters underground The announcement that the 77-year-old Moscow Metro would be wired for Wi-Fi access later this year prompted my perusal of photos from a visit to the Russian capital, where, daily, some 6.5 million daily riders descend into the subterranean netherworld. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghosts of Oil Street</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/21/the-ghosts-of-oil-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Redevelopment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil Street. Photo by Eric To This story was originally published in the November 2010 edition of Muse, the new-defunct review of Hong Kong arts and culture. It was a hot night when I sat inside the cluttered studios of the pirate radio station FM 101, six floors up inside an industrial building in Kwun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of Hong Kong Nightlife</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/29/the-other-side-of-hong-kong-nightlife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Street Performance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody really remembers how they first discovered Sense 99. Usually, they hear about it through a friend, who heard about it through a friend, who heard about it through a friend and so on. It is not quite a bar, not quite a private club, not an art gallery or a music venue, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Foster&#8217;s Plan for West Kowloon</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/27/inside-fosters-plan-for-west-kowloon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/27/inside-fosters-plan-for-west-kowloon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Norman Foster won the international competition for the master plan of the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong last spring, I was disappointed. I thought it was plug-and-play urbanism, a crowd-pleasing design that had too much in common with so many interchangeable urban neighbourhoods that have sprung up in the past 20 years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ma Yansong&#8217;s Organic Architecture</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/21/ma-yansongs-organic-architecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mississauga was as close to a blank slate as Beijing-based architect Ma Yansong could hope for. For more than twenty years, the sprawling city in the suburbs of Toronto has been searching fruitlessly for an identity. Its first attempt came in 1987, when a national design competition produced a post-modern City Hall that resembled a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The City in an Art Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/07/the-city-in-an-art-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paddling Home, Kacey Wong, 2010 It&#8217;s not often that you get a chance to build a museum from scratch, but that is exactly what’s happening in Hong Kong, where a long-awaited museum of contemporary art and visual culture will soon take shape. The 40,000-square-metre museum, known as M+ &#8212; short for Museum Plus &#8212; will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Shrines of Carroll Gardens</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/05/catholic-shrines-of-carroll-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Demographics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Court Street and Fourth Place is the Van Westerhout Cittadini Molesi Social Club&#8217;s Madonna Addolorata Jesus has risen again on Brooklyn&#8217;s Wyckoff Street. His hand outstretched toward passersby, Christ silently sermonizes from a lightbox that both protects him from the elements and casts a holy aura around his colorfully-painted, ceramic torso. He&#8217;s also a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Waterfront: Central Ferry Piers, Cheung Chau Praya</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/19/on-the-waterfront-central-ferry-piers-cheung-chau-praya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/19/on-the-waterfront-central-ferry-piers-cheung-chau-praya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last in a series of three posts about Hong Kong&#8217;s waterfront public spaces. Read the first one here and the second here. The promenade that runs for 850 metres along the Central ferry piers is one of the best public spaces in Hong Kong. I suspect this partly by accident. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Waterfront: Kwun Tong, Ma On Shan</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/18/on-the-waterfront-kwun-tong-and-ma-on-shan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/18/on-the-waterfront-kwun-tong-and-ma-on-shan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bicycles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second in a series of three posts about Hong Kong&#8217;s waterfront. Read the first post here. The Kwun Tong promenade opened last year on an industrial stretch of waterfront facing the runway of the old Kai Tak Airport. It&#8217;s very short &#8212; just 200 metres &#8212; but the plan is to continue expanding it until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Waterfront: Tsim Sha Tsui</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/17/on-the-waterfront-tsim-sha-tsui/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a city defined by its harbour, Hong Kong has done a remarkable job of blocking people off from it. Highways, private development, cargo yards and storage depots take up more than 60 percent of Victoria Harbour&#8217;s shorelines. The rest of the harbourfront is a higgledy-piggledy network of disjointed promenades, some better than others. Luckily, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transit by Design</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/03/transit-by-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lai King Station, next to Hong Kong’s sprawling container port, has special significance for Wilfred Yeung. “This was my first assignment when I joined the MTR,” he says as we ride down the escalator from the busy platform upstairs. In the mid-1990s, as a young architect, Yeung was given the task of expanding the station [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Urbanized&#8221;: Democracy and Design</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/31/urbanized-democracy-by-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Hustwit clearly wanted his new documentary, Urbanized, to get more people talking or writing about cities. But he might not have expected the very literal way that admirers at Field Notes, a stationery company, would help facilitate that goal &#8212; by supplying notepads branded with the film&#8217;s logo to audiences attending early theatrical runs. [...]]]></description>
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