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		<title>The State of Seismic Safety in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 03:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 7.0-earthquake in Ya&#8217;an, Sichuan Province this past April once again brought up the topic of construction quality in China. Images of crumbled buildings also reminded the world of the devastation that overcame the very same region 5 years ago when more than 70,000 people perished in the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake. Amazingly, the loss of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INFOGRAPHIC: China’s $250 Billion Education Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<title>Why is Zaha Hadid being copied in China?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zaha Hadid&#8217;s Wangjing SOHO design (left). Chongqing Meiquan 22nd Century design (right). Image from AFP. Earlier this year, the architecture world was in shock after a story made the rounds that a Zaha Hadid designed project in Beijing is being pirated by a developer in Chongqing. What&#8217;s surprising about this story is not the actual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Bianca Bosker, Author of New Book “Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The widespread pirating of architectural motifs in China&#8217;s developing urban landscape is a well-documented phenomenon. From Alpine Villages to starchitect-designed superstructures, Chinese builders often seem to have no shame in copy and pasting designs originating from far away places. This perplexing and culturally intriguing topic is the subject of a new book by Bianca Bosker, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illuminating Hong Kong’s Bank of China Tower</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong&#8217;s Bank of China building with its original nighttime lighting scheme (left) compared to its current one (right) The following post was written by John Yuan, a Chinese-American architect who worked on the design of the Bank of China building in Hong Kong during his tenure as an employee of I.M. Pei&#8217;s architectural practice: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Fantasies in China: Architectural Visualization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following piece appears in the new issue of the architecture journal CLOG:RENDERING Urban Fantasies in China: Architectural Visualization Architectural visualization specialists are the overlooked laborers involved in the vast China urban development program. They differ from architects in that they do not have design training beyond very specific knowledge of software programs such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Experience in Contrasts: Redevelopment in Beijing’s Historic Qianmen Neighborhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before and After Photos of &#8216;Quanjude&#8217;, a famous Peking Duck Establishment in Qianmen Since 1864 It is a familiar narrative across China&#8217;s cities: historic districts routinely razed to make way for new developments comprised of high-rise residential communities and retail mixed-use complexes designed to reflect China&#8217;s 21st Century image. Yet in some of China&#8217;s more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTR Island Line Extension Set to Change Hong Kong’s Western District</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Dot = Current Western Extent of MTR Hong Kong Island Line (Sheung Wan)       Red Dot = Terminus of Island Line Western Extension To Open in 2014 (Kennedy Town) Infrastructure development continues in Hong Kong as the city&#8217;s Metro Transit Railway (MTR) extends its underground Island Line into the city&#8217;s Western District. Beginning construction in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China World’s Largest Wind Energy Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Infographic Courtesy of Statista]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Farming in China: Chengdu’s Anlong Village</title>
		<link>http://www.chinaurbandevelopment.com/?p=1540</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Nathaniel Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the ongoing spate of food safety scandals, Chinese consumers are rightly weary of the source and quality of their food. Unfortunately, food quality regulatory bodies in China remain unreliable and direct access to fresh food sources is limited for an increasingly urbanized populace. This is one of the great contradictions of China&#8217;s urban development: [...]]]></description>
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