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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>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>Delving Brick Lane&#8217;s Layers</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/09/delving-brick-lanes-layers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Olczak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early on a Friday morning, London’s Brick Lane bustles with Bangladeshis heading to prayers at the local mosque. The women wear brightly coloured saris and the men don long pastel robes, looking striking as they stride along this worn English street. A few hours later, they are gone and the feel of the street has [...]]]></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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		<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>Montreal in the 1950s</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/13/montreal-in-the-1950s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alfred Bohn arrived in Montreal from a small town in Germany fifty-three years ago. He lived with his wife Hannelore in an apartment on Clark Street just above Prince Arthur, next to two other European couples. The six of them used to spent their free time wandering around the city, taking photos of their new [...]]]></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>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>Lido di Ostia &#8211; ruine, fantasme et nostalgie</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/09/lido-di-ostia-ruine-fantasme-et-nostalgie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Corbeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renato Guttuso, Spiaggia, 1955-1956 J&#8217;embarquai dès le matin dans ce fantasme au bord de la Mer de Rome et qui traine toujours avec moi, comme un paysage qui me harcèle. Ce n&#8217;est qu&#8217;un paysage, une carte postale tragiquement exotique &#8211; et qui me fit revenir en mémoire avec force l&#8217;oeuvre Spiaggia de Guttuso, le peintre [...]]]></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>September 11th Street</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/09/11/september-11th-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between Avenidas Juramento and Olazábal, Calle 11 de Setiembre &#8212; September 11th Street &#8212; is one of the most beautiful in the upscale Buenos Aires barrio of Belgrano. Its trees arch over the rooflines of multistory apartment buildings, meeting above the middle of the street to form a cavernous, emerald archway that resembles the nave [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>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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