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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>
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		<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>Pigeon Keepers of Bushwick</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/06/pigeon-keepers-of-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been following our Photos of the Week, you&#8217;ve probably seen the work of Chris Arnade, a New York-based photographer who creates particularly lovely images. Arnade has a particularly good eye for urban characters. Last week, he emailed me about a series he has been working on about men who raise pigeons on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land Reclamation &#8212; At What Cost?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/12/land-reclamation-at-what-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Construction of a new underground highway built on the last bit of land reclamation permitted in Victoria Harbour If you are reading this somewhere in Hong Kong, odds are you’re sitting on a piece of land that was once a part of the sea. Since 1851, more than 60 square kilometres of land has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo, Two Weeks After the Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/09/15/tokyo-two-weeks-after-the-earthquake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 2011 I arrive in Tokyo on a clear, crisp afternoon. As my train makes brisk progress from Narita Airport to the city centre, I stare out the window at the country fields giving way to suburbia and then a densely crammed cityscape. The city seems calm. Kids run freely through an asphalt schoolyard. Uniformed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of the Week: False Moon, Real Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/09/10/photos-of-the-week-false-moon-real-moon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/09/10/photos-of-the-week-false-moon-real-moon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tribute in Light,&#8221; a September 11th memorial, seen from Brooklyn. Photo by Chris Arnade It&#8217;s almost Mid-Autumn Festival here in Hong Kong, a time of year when people gather outside to light lanterns and stare up at the full harvest moon. As with all Chinese festivals, there&#8217;s a story behind it &#8212; in this case, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Gods, Good Fortune and a Waterfall</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/09/07/chinese-gods-good-fortune-and-a-waterfall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/09/07/chinese-gods-good-fortune-and-a-waterfall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the perfect setting for a picnic. Under the shade of a few trees, next to the sloshing waves of the East Lamma Channel, we set down a blanket, some wine and some snacks and spent an afternoon watching the ships pass by. What more could we ask for? How about a waterfall? Oh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Pastoral</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/08/29/urban-pastoral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It comes to me whenever I am in Vancouver: an urge to watch the sunset. Pulled by memories of blue Pacific waters buffeting a tangerine sky, I make my way to English Bay Beach, where I find a seat on one of the large pieces of driftwood that have been arranged on the sand, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery by Design</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/13/recovery-by-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The violence of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that shook Japan on March 11th was shocking enough, but what followed was almost unimaginable. Thirty minutes after the quake, a massive tsunami swept through the northeastern Tohoku region with waves up to 120 feet high. Entire towns were crushed and swept away. By the time the water receded, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sea Breeze That Kills</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/12/the-sea-breeze-that-kills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=14691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People living near Hong Kong&#8217;s massive container port are being subjected to life-threatening levels of sulphur dioxide, says the author of a new government report on marine pollution that will be released later this year. Scientists, environmentalists and even the shipping industry accuse the Hong Kong government of dragging its feet in regulating pollution from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Citadel of Colonial Power &#8212; For Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/22/a-citadel-of-colonial-power-for-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=14636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Later this year, when Hong Kong’s government moves its headquarters to a glassy new building next to Victoria Harbour, it will leave behind the leafy hill it has called home since the 1840s. Rather than conserve the hill for public use, however, the government wants to sell half of it to developers, who plan to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Masked Metropolis</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/10/the-masked-metropolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do so many Japanese people wear masks? The question became stuck in my mind almost as soon as I arrived in Tokyo late last month. Everywhere I went, on the streets and in trains, nearly half of the people around me were wearing surgical masks. I already knew part of the answer: people wear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>King Banyan</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/07/king-banyan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese banyan tree in Yau Yat Chuen, Kowloon, Hong Kong]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong&#8217;s Generic Cultural District</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/06/hong-kongs-generic-cultural-district/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/06/hong-kongs-generic-cultural-district/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call it déjà vu: five years after Norman Foster&#8217;s plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District was scrapped in the face of massive public controversy, another Foster plan for the district has been chosen. On Friday, the authority in charge of developing the cultural district announced that Foster&#8217;s bid was selected over rival plans by [...]]]></description>
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