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	<title>URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place &#187; Politics</title>
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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>Occupy Toronto: One Month Later</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/16/occupy-toronto-one-month-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of November 15th, governments in many cities around the world launched a coordinated crackdown on local Occupy movements, serving up eviction notices with plans to forcibly remove protesters from public spaces. If you haven&#8217;t already seen the herculean 17 hour livestream of the eviction of New York&#8217;s Occupy Wall Street by citizen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Urbanized&#8221;: Democracy and Design</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/31/urbanized-democracy-by-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Hustwit clearly wanted his new documentary, Urbanized, to get more people talking or writing about cities. But he might not have expected the very literal way that admirers at Field Notes, a stationery company, would help facilitate that goal &#8212; by supplying notepads branded with the film&#8217;s logo to audiences attending early theatrical runs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of the Week: Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/13/photos-of-the-week-occupy-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of this week&#8217;s photos of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests were taken by Scott Lynch on September 22nd and October 2nd. 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>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>Brooklyn&#8217;s Fractured Faces</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/09/08/brooklyns-fractured-faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Know which leafy block to turn down off the numbered avenues of Brooklyn&#8217;s Park Slope, squint past the bright spots of sun and deep shadows dappling the ground late into a summer day, and you can puzzle them together &#8212; a series of portraits, &#8220;ghostly apparitions&#8221; as the New York Times called them &#8212; spanning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing from Student Life: Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/07/06/missing-from-student-life-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Hong Kong Democracy Wall, 2009 When I first moved to Hong Kong three years ago, I was already accustomed to the particular quirks of local life, having spent around two and a half months exploring the city before I took the definitive flight from Canada. Getting used to life at the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Houses, Big Impact</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/25/small-houses-big-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 04:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Wan was 10 years old when his father, an officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, died in the line of duty. Reeling from his death, Wan’s family moved from their Tsim Sha Tsui apartment back to their ancestral village, Tai Po Tsai, where they owned a small tile-roofed house. The year was [...]]]></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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		<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>Elected by Ethnoburbia</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/05/elected-by-ethnoburbia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 16:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election results in Toronto in 2008 (top) and 2011 (bottom) Red is Liberal, blue is Conservative, orange is NDP Canada held its 41st federal election on Monday and the results have unleashed a seismic shift in the country&#8217;s political landscape. After two consecutive minority governments, the Conservatives have now won a majority. The left-wing NDP, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Defence of Street Art</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/30/in-defence-of-street-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ai Wei Wei projection graffiti, Hong Kong. Photo by Cpak Ming This month, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles opened a new exhibition on the history of street art and graffiti, the first such show at a major American museum. It has been greeted by controversy. One of the curators has been accused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marching for Ai Wei Wei</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/25/marching-for-ai-wei-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ai Wei Wei has become a cause célèbre in Hong Kong since his arrest by mainland Chinese authorities on April 3rd. In the week since I wrote about &#8220;Chin Tangerine&#8220;, who covered the city with &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Ai Wei Wei?&#8221; graffiti, artists have rallied to Ai&#8217;s support with a blizzard of interventions, homages and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Afraid of Ai Wei Wei?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/16/whos-afraid-of-ai-wei-wei/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/16/whos-afraid-of-ai-wei-wei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At three o’clock on Wednesday morning, the air beneath the Central Mid-Levels Escalator became thick with the fumes of spray paint as a young university student left a message on the escalator’s pillars: “Who’s afraid of Ai Wei Wei?” Over the past week, the student, nicknamed Chin, has blitzed some of Hong Kong’s most high-profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Canada Votes, Street by Street</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/11/how-canada-votes-street-by-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election signs in Calgary, 2006 Canada is in the midst of yet another federal election, one that will, if the current trends hold steady, result in a third minority government for Stephen Harper&#8217;s Conservatives. It&#8217;s a pretty dismal state of affairs. But even the most delicious truffle looks like a turd, so things might still [...]]]></description>
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