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		<title>Collecting the Scraps of a Changing Shanghai</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/07/20/house-and-home-for-a-migrant-family-in-shanghai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/07/20/house-and-home-for-a-migrant-family-in-shanghai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Anne Tay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was no reason to have entered what looked like a dumpster north of Wangjiamatou Lu (王家码头路) which was located in Shanghai&#8217;s Old Town, or known better to some as the former walled city of Nanshi (literally &#8216;southern town&#8217; (南市)) &#8212; until a small head in pigtails poked out from behind the rusty doors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo&#8217;s Urban Bungalows</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/30/tokyos-urban-bungalows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest surprises I encountered when I visited Tokyo last spring was how quiet the city became when you ventured away from the train stations. The above photos were taken less than 15 minutes by foot from Shinjuku, one of the world&#8217;s busiest transportation hubs and the centre of a huge business, entertainment [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[New Territories]]></category>
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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>Le Corbusier Died and Nobody Noticed</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/09/06/le-corbusier-died-and-nobody-noticed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/09/06/le-corbusier-died-and-nobody-noticed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Soderstrom</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Le Corbusier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modernism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Urban Renewal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On August 27th, the forty-fifth anniversary of the death of Swiss architect Le Corbusier slipped by with nobody noticing. His legacy, however, lives on in cities around the world. His idea was to make things better for people. Getting rid of substandard, unhealthy housing, and separating industry from residential areas was supposed to reform both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Tin</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/06/21/cape-tin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cape Town]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Informal Settlements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A row of numbered tin shacks in Blikkiesdorp. Photo from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Nestled in a sun-kissed valley amid coastal mountains, pastel-hued, historic Cape Town is arguably one of the world&#8217;s most beautiful cities. So it&#8217;s long been a rude awakening for first time visitors expecting to arrive amid its sweeping vistas and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evening Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/06/14/evening-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interior Space]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=7833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In April, I wrote about the Cheungs, who live in a condemned building in Kwun Tong. Years ago, they built shacks on their roofs and cage homes in their flat to rent to poor tenants. This photo was taken in the flat, which is still home to a few elderly people who live in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong Rooftops: Condemned</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/04/23/hong-kong-rooftops-condemned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/04/23/hong-kong-rooftops-condemned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years might not even be close to a lifetime for most people, but in Hong Kong, it&#8217;s enough to witness the birth and death of a neighbourhood. In the mid-1960s, when Cheung Cheuk-kuen and his wife, Cheung Tsui-lin, moved into a flat on the top floor of a building in Kwun Tong, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Experiments in Public Housing</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/01/26/green-experiments-in-hong-kong-public-housing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/01/26/green-experiments-in-hong-kong-public-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Roofs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=6353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong&#8217;s public housing estates are going green. In recent years, the Housing Authority has been using its estates as laboratories for the latest green technologies, a move that could help reduce Hong Kong&#8217;s air pollution and encourage more sustainable building practices. Some of the authority&#8217;s latest efforts can be seen in Yau Lai Estate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bushwick Trailer Park</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/01/13/bushwick-trailer-park/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/01/13/bushwick-trailer-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An indoor camper in Williamsburg. Photo by Johnny DeKam and Bree Edwards. Having successively appropriated so much Middle American iconography &#8212; from trucker hats to Pabst Blue Ribbon beer &#8212; some north Brooklyn hipsters may have decided that their living space ought to reach the same heights of irony as their wardrobes. Enter the Nut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Pasture to Projects</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/11/19/from-pasture-to-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/11/19/from-pasture-to-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curious about what the building his great-great-grandfather lived in was like, ex-Brooklynite Zach van Schouwen was soon researching the history of his entire street. The result is &#8220;The Block,&#8221; a series pen-and-ink drawings of how the stretch of Eldridge Street, between Stanton and Rivington on Manhattan&#8217;s Lower East Side, looked in every year since 1795. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living on the Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/09/06/living-on-the-edge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/09/06/living-on-the-edge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rooftop houses in Kwun Tong By the end of this year, Hong Kong&#8217;s Buildings Department plans to finish clearing illegal rooftop structures from single-staircase buildings, marking the end of a clearance programme that began in 2001. But illegal rooftop communities continue to thrive, fed by a shortage of centrally located public housing and perennially high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taipei&#8217;s Japanese Bungalows</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/04/03/taipeis-japanese-bungalows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/04/03/taipeis-japanese-bungalows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=4053</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At some point or another, most of Asia was occupied by the Japanese, usually with disastrous consequences. But Taiwan is a bit different. From 1895 to 1945, Taiwan was a full-fledged Japanese colony, a legacy that continues to manifest itself in many subtle aspects of Taiwanese culture. Not the least of this is the urban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hobbit Houses</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/03/23/hobbit-houses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=3985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been curious about the flat-roofed one-storey houses that are sprinkled throughout many of Montreal&#8217;s neighbourhoods. Rather than traditional bungalows, they look more like growth-stunted plexes that are missing their upper floors. Last Friday&#8217;s Montreal Gazette featured a nice feature by Susan Semenak on the houses, looking both at their history and their current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in a Cage</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/03/14/life-in-a-cage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/03/14/life-in-a-cage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=3129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Click on the image above to watch an audio slideshow I didn&#8217;t even notice the smell until my friend Will McCallum pointed it out &#8212; I was too busy contemplating what it would be like to spend my nights in a cage set inside a one-room apartment with ten other men (not to mention the [...]]]></description>
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