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		<title>&#8220;Urbanized&#8221;: Democracy and Design</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/31/urbanized-democracy-by-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Hustwit clearly wanted his new documentary, Urbanized, to get more people talking or writing about cities. But he might not have expected the very literal way that admirers at Field Notes, a stationery company, would help facilitate that goal &#8212; by supplying notepads branded with the film&#8217;s logo to audiences attending early theatrical runs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Citadel of Colonial Power &#8212; For Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/22/a-citadel-of-colonial-power-for-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later this year, when Hong Kong’s government moves its headquarters to a glassy new building next to Victoria Harbour, it will leave behind the leafy hill it has called home since the 1840s. Rather than conserve the hill for public use, however, the government wants to sell half of it to developers, who plan to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elected by Ethnoburbia</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/05/05/elected-by-ethnoburbia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 16:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election results in Toronto in 2008 (top) and 2011 (bottom) Red is Liberal, blue is Conservative, orange is NDP Canada held its 41st federal election on Monday and the results have unleashed a seismic shift in the country&#8217;s political landscape. After two consecutive minority governments, the Conservatives have now won a majority. The left-wing NDP, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marching for Ai Wei Wei</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/25/marching-for-ai-wei-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ai Wei Wei has become a cause célèbre in Hong Kong since his arrest by mainland Chinese authorities on April 3rd. In the week since I wrote about &#8220;Chin Tangerine&#8220;, who covered the city with &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Ai Wei Wei?&#8221; graffiti, artists have rallied to Ai&#8217;s support with a blizzard of interventions, homages and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Afraid of Ai Wei Wei?</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/16/whos-afraid-of-ai-wei-wei/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/16/whos-afraid-of-ai-wei-wei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At three o’clock on Wednesday morning, the air beneath the Central Mid-Levels Escalator became thick with the fumes of spray paint as a young university student left a message on the escalator’s pillars: “Who’s afraid of Ai Wei Wei?” Over the past week, the student, nicknamed Chin, has blitzed some of Hong Kong’s most high-profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Canada Votes, Street by Street</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/11/how-canada-votes-street-by-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/11/how-canada-votes-street-by-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election signs in Calgary, 2006 Canada is in the midst of yet another federal election, one that will, if the current trends hold steady, result in a third minority government for Stephen Harper&#8217;s Conservatives. It&#8217;s a pretty dismal state of affairs. But even the most delicious truffle looks like a turd, so things might still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cairo&#8217;s Taxi Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/29/cairos-taxi-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos by Peter Morgan (top), and MatHelium (bottom) Hop in any cab in any city of the world and you&#8217;re likely to be treated to lively political commentary. That&#8217;s especially true in autocratic regimes, where the availability of other spaces in which random strangers can meet and speak openly has often been severely curtailed. Cairo&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s Egypt, Hiding in Plain Sight</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/18/hosni-mubaraks-egypt-hiding-in-plain-sight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/18/hosni-mubaraks-egypt-hiding-in-plain-sight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Sarah Carr I couldn&#8217;t quite glimpse Hosni Mubarak from my balcony in Garden City, but simply knowing that his portrait was nearby made me unable to shake the sensation of being watched. Not exactly towering over, but nudged by its rooftop mechanicals above the rooflines of the neighborhood&#8217;s decadently decomposing 19th century apartment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of a Village</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/02/24/the-death-of-a-village/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was bound to happen. 26 months after Tsoi Yuen Village received its death sentence, 100 police officers burst into the remaining villagers&#8217; houses and told them to leave. The villagers were incredulous. &#8220;I was negotiating with the government peacefully only a few days ago,&#8221; one man, Cheung Sun-yau, told the South China Morning Post. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone&#8217;s Talking About the Weather</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/01/24/everyones-talking-about-the-weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everyone&#8217;s talking about the weather,&#8221; runs a loose translation of an old German political poster, &#8220;except us.&#8221; The slogan was used to parody a period railroad ad that trumpeted the Deutsche Bahn&#8217;s storm-resistant resilience, but it also attempted a deeper point: that meaningful politics is serious business, above the fray of such trivial, provincial preoccupations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is Argentina Crying</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/11/30/this-is-argentina-crying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everything you foreigners know about Argentina,&#8221; the older gentleman asserted, &#8220;you know from that Madonna movie.&#8221; We&#8217;re standing in Palermo Viejo, a trendy neighborhood miles away from the buildings and blocks that pencil in postcard Buenos Aires. If his statement &#8212; referencing Evita, the 1996 musical melodrama about Argentina&#8217;s most charismatic first lady &#8212; were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beirut: Signs of Postwar Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/24/beirut-signs-of-postwar-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/07/24/beirut-signs-of-postwar-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posters along the former green line calling for &#8220;real change.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Electoral Politics by Plop</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/10/20/electoral-politics-by-plop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Imberman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently sat down to write an article about the municipal elections. I started reading up about the candidates, browsed their pages, explored some of the Montreal blogs. And the more I read the more depressed I became, to the point that the only way I was able to regain sanity was through a marathon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forty Years Since Stonewall</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/07/03/forty-years-since-stonewall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Freedom! I want freedom! Let me go!&#8221; The woman&#8217;s arms were flailing wildly, and she was shouting at a police officer standing guard at the intersection of Christopher and Greenwich Streets. Her gesticulations could have been mistaken for a political protest &#8212; she was, after all, among the hundreds pressed against the crowd control barriers, [...]]]></description>
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