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	<title>URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place &#187; Hong Kong</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>&#8220;Defect Rectification&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/12/defect-rectification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong&#8217;s HK$5.5 billion new government headquarters is falling apart just three months after it opened Crooked wall fixtures, chipped railings, torn wallpaper, stained walls and signboards held up by masking tape in the Legislative Council: the recent outbreak of legionnaire’s disease is not the only problem at the Hong Kong government’s expensive new headquarters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Tall is Too Tall?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/09/how-tall-is-too-tall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubai. Photo by Zeyad T. Al-Mudhaf The Burj Khalifa defies the imagination. It stands nearly one kilometre above the streets of Dubai, spanning a total of 163 floors &#8212; 209 if you could the maintenance levels in the building’s spire. When it was completed in 2010, at a cost of more than US$1.5 billion, it [...]]]></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>Inside Foster&#8217;s Plan for West Kowloon</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/27/inside-fosters-plan-for-west-kowloon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/27/inside-fosters-plan-for-west-kowloon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Norman Foster won the international competition for the master plan of the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong last spring, I was disappointed. I thought it was plug-and-play urbanism, a crowd-pleasing design that had too much in common with so many interchangeable urban neighbourhoods that have sprung up in the past 20 years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life SimCity</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/12/24/real-life-simcity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aroma of wood smoke is not one of the things I expected to smell when I moved to a new apartment on the 35th floor, but there&#8217;s a rooftop barbecue restaurant just down the street from my building and the smell often floats upwards. When I sit on my balcony, I can watch little [...]]]></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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		<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>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>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/19/on-the-waterfront-central-ferry-piers-cheung-chau-praya/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<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>Hong Kong&#8217;s Bicycle Graveyards</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/08/hong-kongs-bicycle-graveyards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bicycle dump. Photo by Dickson Lee for the SCMP Sai Kung’s bicycle graveyard is back and bigger than ever. Last Wednesday, dozens of bikes were seen piled atop one another on a stretch of government land in the suburban Hong Kong district. It’s a symptom of a wider problem – an acute shortage of bicycle [...]]]></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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