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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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		<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>Exit Shinjuku</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/29/exit-shinjuku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside exit A9, Shinjuku Station, Tokyo]]></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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		<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>&#8220;Defect Rectification&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/12/defect-rectification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong&#8217;s HK$5.5 billion new government headquarters is falling apart just three months after it opened Crooked wall fixtures, chipped railings, torn wallpaper, stained walls and signboards held up by masking tape in the Legislative Council: the recent outbreak of legionnaire’s disease is not the only problem at the Hong Kong government’s expensive new headquarters. [...]]]></description>
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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>Photo of the Week: One Step Ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/01/photo-of-the-week-one-step-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Year&#8217;s Eve, Zenko-ji Temple, Nagano, Japan. Photo by Peter Schön. Every week, we feature striking images from our Urbanphoto group on Flickr. Want to see your photos here? Join the group.]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/29/the-other-side-of-hong-kong-nightlife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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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>Real-Life SimCity</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/24/real-life-simcity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aroma of wood smoke is not one of the things I expected to smell when I moved to a new apartment on the 35th floor, but there&#8217;s a rooftop barbecue restaurant just down the street from my building and the smell often floats upwards. When I sit on my balcony, I can watch little [...]]]></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>Mahjong in the Rain</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/05/mahjong-in-the-rain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Anne Tay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The raucous clatter of tiles was unmistakable as I approached the corner of Zhijiang Lu (芷江路) and Xizhang Bei Lu (西藏北路) in Shanghai’s Zhabei district. In a public playground, groups of middle-aged to old people were lazily gathered for an afternoon of mass mahjong and card games. A large group of spectators followed like moths [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portraits of Beijing Cyclists</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/21/portraits-of-beijing-cyclists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beijing&#8217;s rate of cycling has dropped dramatically over the past two decades, as the economy has developed and more people buy cars. As a result, the city is mired in horrendous gridlock and some of the worst air pollution on earth. But cycling is still an important mode of transport in China&#8217;s capital; according to [...]]]></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>
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		<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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