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	<title>URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place &#187; Then and Now</title>
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	<description>Exploring urban life through word and photography</description>
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		<title>Delving Brick Lane&#8217;s Layers</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2012/01/09/delving-brick-lanes-layers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Olczak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early on a Friday morning, London’s Brick Lane bustles with Bangladeshis heading to prayers at the local mosque. The women wear brightly coloured saris and the men don long pastel robes, looking striking as they stride along this worn English street. A few hours later, they are gone and the feel of the street has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montreal in the 1950s</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/11/13/montreal-in-the-1950s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alfred Bohn arrived in Montreal from a small town in Germany fifty-three years ago. He lived with his wife Hannelore in an apartment on Clark Street just above Prince Arthur, next to two other European couples. The six of them used to spent their free time wandering around the city, taking photos of their new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowdon&#8217;s History Lives Online</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/10/08/snowdons-history-lives-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, on my way home in the aftermath of a tremendous December blizzard, I found myself wandering through Snowdon, a neighbourhood in Montreal&#8217;s west end. Trudging past waist-high snowbanks, I noticed stairs leading up to some kind of apartment courtyard. Curious, I ventured in and found an odd collection of shops: a tailor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Over-Regulated Street</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/19/the-over-regulated-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top: 1970s. Bottom: 2011. Photo by Lee Chi-man It&#8217;s always easy to depict a city&#8217;s changes through the broadest of strokes. Buildings fall so that others may rise; new roads are built; shops come and go. But the most important transformations are often the most subtle. This new photo compilation by Lee Chi-man is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lingering Ghost</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/05/the-lingering-ghost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a bright summer day in 1996, Kate McDonnell was wandering through an alley in the eastern Plateau when she spotted the remnants of a hand-painted tobacco ad on the wall of an old triplex. Fifteen years later, Kate ventured down the same alley and, sure enough, the ad was still there, a bit more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Heal</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/06/05/slow-heal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Montreal metro being built under de Maisonneuve, early 1960s For a long time, the boulevard de Maisonneuve was one of my least favourite streets in Montreal. It was built in the 1960s by linking and widening four distinct streets: de Montigny, Burnside, St. Luc and Western. The final product was a Frankenstein&#8217;s monster of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Alternate Map of Manhattan</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/04/07/an-alternate-map-of-manhattan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original, ca. 1800 Mangin-Goerck Plan (top) and part of the Commissioners&#8217; Plan of 1811, as engraved by William Bridges Last month, New York celebrated the bicentennial of one of its most iconic works of engineering and urban design — Manhattan’s grid. The 1811 street layout was officially known as the Commissioners’ Plan, but its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voodoo Gentrification</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/03/03/voodoo-gentrification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard the term &#8220;voodoo economics&#8221; before. Famously used by George H.W. Bush to denounce Ronald Reagan&#8217;s theory of trickle-down wealth when the two were vying head-to-head for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, they never again escaped the elder Bush&#8217;s lips after he became Reagan&#8217;s running mate in that year&#8217;s general election. The former&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There is Nothing Here&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/02/01/there-is-nothing-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then-and-now impresario Lee Chi-man uploaded this compilation the other day. It depicts Shin Wong Street as seen from Hollywood Road, in Hong Kong&#8217;s Sheung Wan district, in 1969 and 2011. Lee accompanied the image with a short, poignant inscription, in Chinese, which Laine Tam took the liberty of translating: When I was taking this picture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Struggling Against the Snow</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/01/31/struggling-against-the-snow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victoria Square, Montreal, February 1970. Photos courtesy Le présent du passé.]]></description>
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		<title>La rue Charlotte, à l’ombre de la Main</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/01/26/la-rue-charlotte-a-l%e2%80%99ombre-de-la-main-montreal-east-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Corbeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rongeurs attendant la fin: rue Charlotte, Montréal Alors que j&#8217;arpente les rues étroites et organiques de la cité coloniale, au sud du quartier latin, je me surprend à escalader lentement la douce pente de la basse-ville jusqu&#8217;au tragique Boulevard René-Lévesque &#8211; horrible et bruyant &#8211; que je trouve en pleine transformation. Tout près, des dizaines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notre-Dame and Griffintown: 1930-2010</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/01/20/notre-dame-the-griffintown-1930-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Corbeil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notre Dame St West, circa 1930-2010 What happened here ? This used to be the north end of Griffintown, right next to the business center of Montreal. À Montréal, au cours des années 1950 et 1960, notamment suite au rapport Dozois, on identifie des dizaines de quartiers qualifiés d&#8217;insalubres, vus comme irrécupérables, et où les [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portraits of a Changing Paris</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2011/01/11/portraits-of-a-changing-paris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Szabla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boulevard Exelmans at Rue Chanez, XVIe Arrondisement, 1905-2008 Contemporary photos by Laurent David Ruamps Chat up a critic of historic preservation and the conversation may turn, sooner or later, toward Paris. What the French capital&#8217;s historic center has retained in fin-de-siècle flourish, s/he might claim, it lacks in the dynamism that fuels the growth of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modernism Debauched</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2010/12/09/modernism-debauched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher DeWolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Villa Besnus in 1922 and 2010. Photo compilation by Laurent David Ruamps In 1922, Le Corbusier was hired by a man named George Besnus to build a new house in the Paris suburb of Vaucresson. It was the architect&#8217;s first chance to put the Purist ideals he had been toying with to practice: an architecture [...]]]></description>
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