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		<title>The Pearl River Megalopolis</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/01/26/the-pearl-river-megalopolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shenzhen from above &#8220;China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people,&#8221; announced a breathless headline in Sunday&#8217;s Telegraph, detailing plans to combine the cities of Guangdong province&#8217;s Pearl River Delta (PRD) into a massive urban conurbation. &#8220;Over the next six years, around 150 major infrastructure projects will mesh the transport, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Hidden in Corporate Archives</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/12/12/history-hidden-in-corporate-archives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hung Hom and Whampoa in the 1970s. Photo courtesy Hong Kong Heritage Project If Hong Kong’s businesses don’t stop throwing away their records, a vital part of the city’s history will be lost forever, a group of archivists and historians warn. Every day, millions of documents are produced by Hong Kong’s companies, but only a [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Pedestrians]]></category>
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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>Deps and 7-Eleven</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/06/08/deps-and-7-eleven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interior Space]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Street food outside 7-Eleven, Phetchaburi, Bangkok Dépanneurs &#8212; the Montreal convenience stores that are a favourite topic of mine &#8212; are big in the news lately with the publication of a new book by Judith Lussier, Sacré dépanneur! The latest contribution to the spate of media coverage is a profile by Montreal Gazette reporter Jeff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Canadian Cities</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/03/02/the-future-of-canadian-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Slow Death of Hawker Stalls</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/02/07/the-slow-death-of-hawker-stalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. and Mrs. Wong have sold electrical appliances &#8212; lightbulbs, wiring, batteries and that sort of thing &#8212; from a green wooden stall on Aberdeen Street for more than 50 years. I met then when I was working on a CNNGo story about the gentrifying neighbourhood in Central now known as Noho, which is short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hasidic Exodus from Park Avenue?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/12/14/a-hasidic-exodus-from-park-avenue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Montreal Gazette reported this weekend that the Hasidic community in Outremont and Mile End is suffering from a housing shortage. In 2002, there were about 4,200 Hasidim in the neighbourhood; today there are more than 6,000. Rising property values mean that many new Hasidic families are finding themselves priced out of their own Montreal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Gutzlaff</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/06/28/goodbye-gutzlaff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you come across a particularly charming and surprising corner of Hong Kong, you can almost be sure that the Urban Renewal Authority has plans to do away with it. Although its official vision is &#8220;to create quality and vibrant urban living in Hong Kong,&#8221; most of its developments obliterate tight-knit communities and organic urban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now Showing: Hong Kong</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/06/25/now-showing-hong-kong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/06/25/now-showing-hong-kong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Kim&#8217;s 2006 short, The Police Box Where has Hong Kong gone? Once a world filmmaking capital, it has nearly vanished from the silver screen. Each year, far fewer feature films are made here than in cities such as Vancouver, Seoul and Tehran. What&#8217;s more, many recent Hong Kong movies, geared towards the lucrative mainland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temporary Stores Thrive as Others Fade</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/05/04/temporary-stores-thrive-as-others-fade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Temporary store in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo by K.Y. Cheng There’s no mistaking the scene on Jordan Road: people are hunting for bargains. In the hollowed-out remains of an old clothing store, the faded words “In Fashion” still visible above the entrance, a motley crowd looks through boxes of discount Crocs sandals and kitschy plastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dépanneurs Beyond the Beer Ads</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/04/28/4447/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long been fascinated by dépanneurs, the ubiquitous Montreal convenience store that are usually owner-operated and ramshackle in appearance. They&#8217;re an integral part of life in Montreal&#8212;most people visit them at least once or twice a day for beer, milk, lotto tickets, cigarettes or a snack&#8212;and they occupy a vital place in the social and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Multinational Ding-Ding</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/04/08/the-multinational-ding-ding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/04/08/the-multinational-ding-ding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ding-ding, Hong Kong&#8217;s 105-year-old tramway is now a multinational asset. Yesterday, local conglomerate Whalf Holdings sold 50 percent of its shares in Hongkong Tramways to the French transportation company Veolia, which retains the option to buy the remaining half. &#8220;Operating the light rail system in Hong Kong will give us the knowledge and expertise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession City</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/04/05/recession-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-capitalist street art, SoHo, New York It&#8217;s a Saturday evening and the Boston subway is packed. The train is stalled on the platform at Downtown Crossing station, and the car has been filling up for nearly thirty minutes. Tensions are rising. One new arrival finds me slumped in my seat, impatient: &#8220;Aw, look at this!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laneway Shops</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2008/12/22/laneway-shops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electrical appliance store, Causeway Bay Antique vendor, Sheung Wan Last year, I wrote a bit about the informal shops and sales that spring up in some of Montreal&#8217;s laneways &#8212; a junk emporium, a record shop, a bicycle cooperative, just to name a few in Mile End. Here in Hong Kong, where commercial rents are [...]]]></description>
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