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	<title>URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place &#187; Heritage and Preservation</title>
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		<title>Small-Town Shanghai: Who&#8217;s Left?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/25/small-town-shanghai-whos-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Anne Tay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don’t have to wander too far from Shanghai to find interesting small towns, that is, ones that have not converted into tourist villages of Disneyland proportions. An hour-long bus ride from Longyang metro stop on Line 2, deep into Pudong, we found ourselves in the town of Dayuan in Nanhui. Towns in China have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macau Art Space: Ox Warehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/23/macau-art-space-ox-warehouse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucked away next to the slopes of the Colina de Mong-Há, halfway between the dog-racing track and the Red Market, the Ox Warehouse doesn&#8217;t call much attention to itself. But inside the slightly ramshackle quarters of this former cattle depot is one of the avant-garde spaces that are nurturing the arts in Macau. Frank Lei [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosque Street&#8217;s Other Name</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/18/mosque-streets-other-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In contrast to the bland apartment buildings on its south side, the northern side of Mosque Street is lined by a crumbling stone wall and vegetation spilling over from the lush grounds of the Jamia Mosque. If you peek over the wall, there&#8217;s a nice view of the mosque, which is the oldest in Hong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gutting of Gulou</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/15/the-gutting-of-gulou/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hutongs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cranes, viewed from the 13th century Gulou, or Drum Tower, build the new Beijing The view from Beijing&#8217;s Gulou, or Drum Tower, is dominated by the labyrinth of threadlike lanes &#8212; the city&#8217;s famous hutongs &#8212; spreading in all directions, filling in the superblocks formed by the city&#8217;s broad, rectilinear avenues. Gulou, built in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Urban Renewal in Hong Kong</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/15/rethinking-urban-renewal-in-hong-kong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/15/rethinking-urban-renewal-in-hong-kong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a feature story that was originally published in the July 2010 edition of Muse magazine. The photos accompanying this article were taken around the Graham Street Market in Central. Standing in the soggy heat of a late spring afternoon, Katty Law reflected on the irony that it took a movie a mere two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong-Style Cafés Revived</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/09/hong-kong-style-cafes-revived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capital Café, part of a new generation of bing sutts in Hong Kong It looks like any other Starbucks &#8212; until you gaze past the espresso machine and notice a scene straight out of a vintage Hong Kong movie. Handwritten menus are taped to the walls, birdcages hang from the ceiling and green-framed windows open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Lose a Sense of Place</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/07/how-to-lose-a-sense-of-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t touch the sculpture in front of Langham Place. It&#8217;s a nice bronze piece by Larry Bell, and it looks great from a distance, but if people touched it, their oily hands would ruin the metal. So there&#8217;s a security guard stationed out front, all day, every day, to make sure nobody crawls onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Hiding in Chengdu&#8217;s Backstreets</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/04/history-hiding-in-chengdus-backstreets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/08/04/history-hiding-in-chengdus-backstreets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Olczak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dive off the main street near Wenshu Temple in Chengdu and you’ll find yourself in a backstreet that’s bustling with a very different kind of character. One side of XiZhuShi lane is devoted to small mahjong rooms, their crowded tables spilling out onto the street through open fronts. Here many are engrossed in clamorous games [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving an Historic Site &#8212; Then What?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/21/saving-an-historic-site-then-what/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/21/saving-an-historic-site-then-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Cynthia Lee Hong-yee found out that her family planned to sell her grandfather&#8217;s private garden to developers, she returned from the United States to take photos of the lush greenery and eclectic Western-influenced Chinese architecture. &#8220;I was capturing some of the details and I realized I just couldn&#8217;t capture Dragon Garden&#8217;s greatness,&#8221; she said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fix a Troublesome Highway</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/15/how-to-fix-a-troublesome-highway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/15/how-to-fix-a-troublesome-highway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Montreal’s Turcot Interchange opened in 1966, no one had seen anything quite like it. Floating one hundred pillared feet above the ground, its concrete spans swirled and swooped through the air, finally coming together in a knot of jaw-dropping proportions. It comprised over seven kilometres of road and spanned an area of seventeen acres. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, Rialto!</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/09/hey-rialto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jiajia Yi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rialto Theatre is located on the corner of rue Bernard and avenue du Parc, in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood. It was built in 1924 and was one of thousands of ornate movie theatres built in North America at the turn of the century, at a time when films were first entering the mainstream. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong Rooftops: The Pawn</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/02/hong-kong-rooftops-the-pawn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/02/hong-kong-rooftops-the-pawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above, 1980s. Below, 2010. Compilation by Lee Chi-man The fact that a row of prewar shophouses still stands on Johnston Road suggests we&#8217;ve entered a new chapter in Hong Kong&#8217;s history of urban development. Originally housing the century-old Woo Cheong Pawn Shop and other neighbourhood businesses, the shophouses were bought by the Urban Renewal Authority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Buildings</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/06/25/blue-buildings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Blue House, Wan Chai Tin Hau Temple, Sham Shui Po]]></description>
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		<title>Gentrification: Y2K to Today</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/06/19/y2k-to-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2000 2009 Change is a constant in most cities, and it&#8217;s no surprise that a decade can yield dramatic alterations to a specific street or even storefront. Take this slice of San Francisco&#8217;s Mission Street, photographed by Eric Fischer, creator of the locals v. tourists photography maps, which he captured in 2000 and again just [...]]]></description>
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