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	<title>URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place &#187; Heritage and Preservation</title>
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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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		<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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		<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>Snowdon&#8217;s History Lives Online</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/08/snowdons-history-lives-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, on my way home in the aftermath of a tremendous December blizzard, I found myself wandering through Snowdon, a neighbourhood in Montreal&#8217;s west end. Trudging past waist-high snowbanks, I noticed stairs leading up to some kind of apartment courtyard. Curious, I ventured in and found an odd collection of shops: a tailor, [...]]]></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>Neon&#8217;s Slow Exit from Hong Kong</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/08/30/neons-slow-exit-from-hong-kong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/08/30/neons-slow-exit-from-hong-kong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yue Hwa in 2005. Photo by choco_late The Yue Hwa Chinese Products department store has stood at the corner of Jordan and Nathan roads for decades &#8212; and for decades, so did its big neon sign, a sentinel that marked the passage north into the seedy streets of Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok. Sometime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is Hong Kong So Green?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/07/28/why-is-hong-kong-so-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/07/28/why-is-hong-kong-so-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=14916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong&#8217;s market booths are typically painted green Why is Hong Kong so green? The question came up a couple of months ago when I was having afternoon tea with my girlfriend, Laine, at Mido Café. “If you had to pick a color to associate with Hong Kong, what would it be?” she asked, looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Old Building Given New Life &#8212; For Now</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/29/an-old-building-given-new-life-temporarily/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/29/an-old-building-given-new-life-temporarily/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=14863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Hong Kong, the fate of an old building is virtually predetermined. Worn by years of intense use and little maintenance, it is snatched up by a property developer who waits for the right moment to knock it down and replace it with shoebox apartments, or maybe a cookie-cutter hotel. Carl Gouw wants to break [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lingering Ghost</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/05/the-lingering-ghost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=14679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a bright summer day in 1996, Kate McDonnell was wandering through an alley in the eastern Plateau when she spotted the remnants of a hand-painted tobacco ad on the wall of an old triplex. Fifteen years later, Kate ventured down the same alley and, sure enough, the ad was still there, a bit more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rooftop Dystopia</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/31/rooftop-dystopia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/31/rooftop-dystopia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 05:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=14663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, I spent a lot of time exploring the rooftop squatter villages that spread across the city like mushrooms on a tree stump. There&#8217;s an eerie feeling that comes over you as you walk through these settlements. Weeds poke through cracks in concrete walls; birds chirp and cicadas whir in the hot summer [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/22/a-citadel-of-colonial-power-for-sale/#comments</comments>
		<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>A Walk Through the Bairro Português</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/06/a-walk-through-the-bairro-portugues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/06/a-walk-through-the-bairro-portugues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 05:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Soderstrom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=14588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane Jacobs died five years ago and fans of cities and the celebrated, iconclastic urbanist have been remembering her contribution with walks through neighborhoods around the world since 2007. This coming weekend, May 7 and 8, enthusiastic city lovers in more than 150 cities around the world, from Toronto to São Paulo, will lead Jane&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Star Ferry&#8217;s Long Farewell</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/31/the-star-ferrys-long-farewell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/31/the-star-ferrys-long-farewell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=14180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong people aren&#8217;t very sentimental, but when Chan Tsu-wing told me about his life as a coxswain, I noticed a certain wistfulness creep into in his words. &#8220;I love my job &#8212; it gives me the best view of the city,&#8221; he said while piloting the 45-year-old Silver Star across Victoria Harbour. He waved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentrification or Redevelopment?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/30/gentrification-or-redevelopment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light from a new fashion boutique floods an alley near Blake Garden, Hong Kong Alan Lo Yeung-kit is an unlikely critic of urban renewal. Three of his successful restaurants &#8212; Classified, Press Room and The Pawn &#8212; are located in Urban Renewal Authority projects in Sheung Wan and Wan Chai. Critics have accused his businesses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Service Mosaics in Shanghai</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/15/mosaic-tiled-public-service-posters-in-shanghais-back-alleys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/15/mosaic-tiled-public-service-posters-in-shanghais-back-alleys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Anne Tay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ruihua Lane (瑞华坊) is one of the many old alleys in Shanghai&#8217;s Luwan District (卢湾区), but it&#8217;s distinguished by its wonderful display of visual public service announcements made up entirely of large mosaic tiles. Though slightly fading, the posters, in good Party-like slogan fashion, reminded the lane&#8217;s former residents of behaviors that went along with [...]]]></description>
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