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	<title>URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place &#187; Society and Culture</title>
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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>Montreal by Bike</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/10/montreal-by-bike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My love affair with Bixi remains undiminished. This despite the wear-and-tear its popularity has caused &#8212; I have been left frustrated by broken docks and bikes on more than a couple of occasions &#8212; and the fact that accessibility on the fringes of its service areas is a bit spotty. (It&#8217;s no fun to bike [...]]]></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>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>The City in an Art Museum</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/07/the-city-in-an-art-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=16767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Paddling Home, Kacey Wong, 2010 It&#8217;s not often that you get a chance to build a museum from scratch, but that is exactly what’s happening in Hong Kong, where a long-awaited museum of contemporary art and visual culture will soon take shape. The 40,000-square-metre museum, known as M+ &#8212; short for Museum Plus &#8212; will [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/06/pigeon-keepers-of-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=16752</guid>
		<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>Catholic Shrines of Carroll Gardens</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/05/catholic-shrines-of-carroll-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Court Street and Fourth Place is the Van Westerhout Cittadini Molesi Social Club&#8217;s Madonna Addolorata Jesus has risen again on Brooklyn&#8217;s Wyckoff Street. His hand outstretched toward passersby, Christ silently sermonizes from a lightbox that both protects him from the elements and casts a holy aura around his colorfully-painted, ceramic torso. He&#8217;s also a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Waterfront: Central Ferry Piers, Cheung Chau Praya</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/19/on-the-waterfront-central-ferry-piers-cheung-chau-praya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last in a series of three posts about Hong Kong&#8217;s waterfront public spaces. Read the first one here and the second here. The promenade that runs for 850 metres along the Central ferry piers is one of the best public spaces in Hong Kong. I suspect this partly by accident. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Waterfront: Kwun Tong, Ma On Shan</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/18/on-the-waterfront-kwun-tong-and-ma-on-shan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/18/on-the-waterfront-kwun-tong-and-ma-on-shan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=16503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Second in a series of three posts about Hong Kong&#8217;s waterfront. Read the first post here. The Kwun Tong promenade opened last year on an industrial stretch of waterfront facing the runway of the old Kai Tak Airport. It&#8217;s very short &#8212; just 200 metres &#8212; but the plan is to continue expanding it until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Waterfront: Tsim Sha Tsui</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/17/on-the-waterfront-tsim-sha-tsui/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a city defined by its harbour, Hong Kong has done a remarkable job of blocking people off from it. Highways, private development, cargo yards and storage depots take up more than 60 percent of Victoria Harbour&#8217;s shorelines. The rest of the harbourfront is a higgledy-piggledy network of disjointed promenades, some better than others. Luckily, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rome, cité envoutante&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/16/rome-cite-envoutante/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Corbeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erasmus, Giardino degli aranci, Roma Les matins se succèdent à un rythme soutenu et déjà depuis une semaine je suis ici sans pouvoir prétendre comprendre ni saisir l&#8217;essentiel d&#8217;une ville tentaculaire. J&#8217;ai parcouru, à la marche, en métro, en tram, en voiture et en bus ces milliers de kilomètres de rues parfois monumentales, parfois disparates, sans [...]]]></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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