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		<title>The Rise of Hong Kong Literature</title>
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The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival opened today, celebrating its tenth anniversary with a packed schedule of lectures, readings and discussions. It&#8217;s a big change from a decade ago, when the festival was a lonely outpost in the wilderness of Hong Kong English-language literature. These days, more people in Hong Kong are writing in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/11/the-rise-of-hong-kong-literature/</link>
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		<title>Google Street View Comes to Hong Kong</title>
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When Google Street View was finally launched in Canada last fall, I was nearly ecstatic, since it let me revisit familiar old places I hadn&#8217;t seen in awhile, like my favourite Montreal streetcorners and memorable places from my life. Now Street View is available for Hong Kong, too. Though you&#8217;d think it wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/11/street-view-comes-to-hong-kong/</link>
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		<title>Patching the City With Lego</title>
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Dispatchwork installation in Quito, Ecuador. Photos by Jan Vormann.
Children and adults alike have long built fantasy cities out of Lego. But Jan Vormann seems like he&#8217;s on a mission to patch all the holes, cracks, and fissures in the walls of the world&#8217;s existing cities with the colorful toy bricks. As part of his Dispatchwork [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/10/patching-the-city-with-lego/</link>
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		<title>Roaming Fish Vendor</title>
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Lunchtime brings Bangkok&#8217;s street vendors out in force, especially in the business districts like Asoke Road. That&#8217;s where I spotted this woman selling dried fish with some stale-looking limes. When she was approached by a customer, she would sit down on the plastic stool she carried around and handle the fish.




	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	


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		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/09/roaming-fish-vendor/</link>
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		<title>Public Sex and Peeping Toms</title>
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Kohei Yoshiyuki was walking through a Tokyo park one night in the early 1970s when he noticed people having sex in the bushes. Then he noticed people spying on the people having sex. That must have been when he decided to get his camera. Using infrared film and flash, Yoshiyuki followed and surreptitiously photographed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/08/public-sex-and-peeping-toms/</link>
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		<title>Tracing London&#8217;s Taxis</title>
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To earn their hackney license, London&#8217;s taxi drivers must all famously master &#8220;The Knowledge,&#8221; a vast compilation of raw data about the best routes through the city&#8217;s streets. The memorization process takes an average of 34 months to study &#8212; and 12 attempts to pass. That means it&#8217;s a safe bet few licensed London cabbies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/06/tracing-londons-taxis/</link>
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		<title>The Shenzhen Flâneur</title>
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It&#8217;s easy to spot Mary Ann O&#8217;Donnell in a Shenzhen crowd. She&#8217;s the one wearing a pink-and-orange linen scarf and flowing dress. She&#8217;s also white &#8212; a rather rare sight in a wealthy city that is still off the radar of the roving crowd of expatriates that have settled in Shanghai and Beijing. Don&#8217;t let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/05/the-shenzhen-flaneur/</link>
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		<title>Donkey Show</title>
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&#8220;La Mona&#8221; by Armando Muñoz García, Tijuana

An alley off Avenue Revolution, Tijuana




	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	


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		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/04/donkey-show/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Canadian Cities</title>
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In 2008, Carmine Starnino, poet and now editor of Maisonneuve magazine, asked me to write an essay on the future of Canadian cities for an issue of Canadian Notes and Queries he was guest-editing. Here&#8217;s what I came up with.
Some days, on the corner of Clark and de la Gauchetière in Montreal, you’ll find a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/02/the-future-of-canadian-cities/</link>
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		<title>Frutti, merci e pesci! Markets in Catania</title>
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DCORBEIL &#124; Rose sur Azur

DCORBEIL &#124; Bloody morning


DCORBEIL &#124; The bodyguard
DCORBEIL &#124; Mercato della fiera
DCORBEIL &#124; Bongiornio !

DCORBEIL &#124; Bored

 DCORBEIL &#124; Africa sulla Piazza Stesicoro
DCORBEIL &#124; Pendus par les pieds
DCORBEIL &#124; Olio e olive


ALL PICTURES TAKEN IN CATANIA, SICILY, 2007-2008
Daniel Corbeil is a planner and designer who lives in Montreal.




	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	


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		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/02/26/frutti-merci-e-pesci-images-of-markets-catania-sicily/</link>
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		<title>Delhi Steps Towards the Future</title>
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Nothing embodies the way India is modernising like the Delhi Metro. Opened in 2002, the system’s clean, marble floored stations and smooth, linked-carriage trains rival those of the most developed cities across the road.
The network has changed city life. Destinations that once took hours to get to on the traffic clogged roads can now be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/02/26/delhi-steps-towards-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Moving on from Fort Point</title>
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The bridge where Summer Street crosses over A is literally the bowels of Fort Point, the shadowy bottom of a neighborhood where buildings reach different heights depending where they meet the grade of the street. In October, the underside of the bridge was covered in rainbow-colored, neon slinkys. Closer to the holiday season, it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/02/25/moving-on-from-fort-point/</link>
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		<title>New Home, New Roof</title>
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Last October I moved to a new apartment &#8212; and with a new apartment comes to a new roof to explore. Unfortunately, my new building&#8217;s rooftop is far from spacious, with just two narrow platforms accessible through the fire stairs. Ladders lead up to two higher platforms, one atop the elevator shaft and another on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/02/24/new-home-new-roof/</link>
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		<title>Hong Kong Street Art Goes Political</title>
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In a winter marked by rallies and protests, young people unhappy with Hong Kong&#8217;s government are taking to the streets in more ways than one. Over the past year, Hong Kong&#8217;s street artists have left their mark with posters, stickers and stencil graffiti that attack some of the city&#8217;s most prominent politicians and business leaders. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/02/21/hong-kong-street-art-goes-political/</link>
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