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  • Kolkata's streets crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and taxis. Many in this crowd are headed to a call to prayer at a Mosque near the Hindu Newspaper.
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  • Kolkata's streets crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and taxis.
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  • Elevated view of Main Street with cars, pedestrians, and buildings.
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  • Pedestrians and vehicles on the way community to a gathering in Hanga Roa.
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  • Pedestrians walk past a movie theater.
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  • Pedestrians in downtown Shanghai.
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  • Pedestrians in a shopping area.
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  • Workers pull electrical power lines above pedestrians.
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  • Elevated view of Main Street with cars, pedestrians, and buildings.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
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  • Workers repair electrical power lines above pedestrians. The need for electrical power is so great in Shanghai that migrant workers are hired to hook them up by strapping a high voltage wire around their waist and pull it across an already stressed net by walking on the actual wires that bring the electricity.  There is a (dirty) coal power plant coming online every four to five days in China that could power a city the size of San Diego. Energy is wasted on an epic scale. One hundred cities with populations over 1 million faced extreme water shortages last year. China’s survival has always been built on the notion of a vastly powerful, infallible center. Thus, China has poor foundations on which to build the subtle network of institutions and accountability necessary to manage the complexities of a modern economy and society. The lack of independent scrutiny and accountability lies behind the massive waste in the Chinese government and destruction of the environment. Air pollution contributed by these plants kills 400,000 people prematurely every year.
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  • A young woman with a camera in a pedestrian shopping area.
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  • A pedestrian  heads for the Riverwalk along the Chicago River.
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  • People on a pedestrian escalator and walkway.
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  • A pedestrian shopping area in downtown Guangzhou at night.
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  • A pedestrian shopping area in downtown Guangzhou at night.
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  • People on a pedestrian escalator and walkway.
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  • Pedestrians walk down stairs to  a tunnel under the International Bridge Number one, the oldest existing link between Mexico's Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, Texas. Day and night more than four million people-commuters, shoppers and sightseers-walk across the bridge each year.
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  • Pedestrians dash through and underground walkway that leads onto International Bridge Number one, the oldest existing link between Mexico's Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, Texas. Day and night more than four million people-commuters, shoppers and sightseers-walk across the bridge each year.
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  • Guangzhou has huge live reef fish restaurants that have 3 or 400 chinese chefs and live crocodiles on the floor of the mall-like area outside the restaurant. The crocs mouths were taped shut, and they would be meals soon, but people would be walking along, talking on their cell phones, not paying attention and trip over live, hissing, charging crocodiles.
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  • A father takes his son on his roll-aboard suitcase to the bus.
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  • Slows Bar BQ in Corktown across from the abandoned Central Station.
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  • A morning commuter along Wicker and the Riverwalk.
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  • The Wrigley building on the north bank of the Chicago River.
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  • A cab driver and his girlfriend hangout with another pal on the Plaza de Armas in central Trujillo, Peru’s third largest city founded in 1536 by Pizarro. The attractive colonial city has an impressive main square that is a gathering place for all ages.
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  • The Kumkapi neighborhood, primarily immigrant, in Istanbul.
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  • Gypsy street musicians in Istanbul.
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  • The Dharavi slum area of Mumbai.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • Boys herd goats through the streets for tourists to see.
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  • The Wolfsonian-FIU-Florida International University: a design museum.
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  • A bachelorette party waits for taxis on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • A woman checks her cell phone on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • Cloud Gate or simply 'the bean' by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park.
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  • Restored homes grace a street in the old Wicker Park neighborhood.
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  • Tourists mug for a friend's photograph on the streets of Zermatt.<br />
Zermatt grows from 5 thousand to 20 thousand people from tourism in high season.  There is a tension between welcoming the tourists, which drives the economy, and yet limiting the impact.  Zermatt bans cars from the street—visitors take a train or tax from a nearby town and the streets are filled mostly with foot traffic except a few buses.
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  • A woman browses to shop for tourist postcards depicting the Alps mountain scenery and attractions at a street side stand catering to tourists in Chamonix.
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  • Skyline of Bund area in Shanghai.
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  • Xujiahui shopping area of Shanghai.
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  • A woman at cafe in Paris, France.
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  • Burning trash on the bank of the Buriganga River.
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  • A street scene in the Philippines.
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  • Street scene in Nairobi at corner of Kenyatta and Kimathi in the city center.
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  • People living in Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • A moai at Plaza Hatumatua in downtown Hanga Roa.
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  • A young woman adjusting hair and makeup.
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  • An upscale shopping mall.
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  • A young woman talking on a cell phone.
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  • Teenagers under an umbrella on East Nanjing Road.
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  • Workers preparing for a festival take a break.
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  • A crowd of photographers shooting.
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  • Century Park on a crowded Sunday.
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  • Xidan shopping area in downtown Beijing just off the side of Tiananmen Square and Forbidden city has been a commercial street crowded with shops since the Ming dynasty.
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  • The Yumin Restaurant in Guangzhou is a huge, live reef fish restaurant employing 400 Chinese chefs that has live crocodiles on the floor of the mall-like area. The crocs’ mouths are taped shut, and they will be meals soon, but people just walk by, talking on their cell phones, not paying attention and tripping over live, hissing, charging crocodiles. The pricey, exotic meat—steamed, braised, or stewed—is believed to cure cough and prevent cancer. “People don’t care about the cost,” says manager Wang Jianfei, “they just care about health.”
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  • The Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market and restaurant area in Hong Kong.
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  • Signs advertising gold jewelry.
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  • Cepni women in traditional garb gather on a Turkish street.
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  • Street scene in Multan.
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  • Ghanaian standing in water as others relax in a canoe on shore.
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  • The government has made clear that it will do whatever it takes to keep the swelling middle class happy. Like anyone else, their experiences and those of their families shape members of the comfort class. When their parents talk about the Great Leap Forward (the disastrous Mao campaign in the late 1950s that left 20 to 30 million dead of starvation) and the subsequent chaos of the Cultural Revolution, they mostly tell horror stories that would put anyone off politics forever. One event that the comfort class does remember is the crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989. But to young Chinese, the Tiananmen protests are less a source of inspiration than an admonishment. Continued popular uprisings like Tiananmen, they believe, would have have provoked a counter reaction by conservative forces that would have led to a return to fortress China, meaning no more iPods, overseas shopping trips or snowboarding weekends.
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  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
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  • Indian Muslims at the call to prayer on the roof of a Kolkata mosque.
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  • Shoppers in the town of Chamonix.
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  • Young women walk their dog at the Findlay Market in Cincinnati.
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  • Friends on the beach at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.
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  • Bars, hotels and shopping along Ocean Avenue in South Beach.
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  • Cloud Gate or simply 'the bean' by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park.
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  • A walkway from the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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  • State Street and the Chicago Theatre on a rainy night.
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  • Tourists gather to wait for a bus on snow-covered streets in trendy Courmayeur. It is a busy ski season in the area of Mont Blanc on the Italian side of the Alps.
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  • Tourists carry umbrellas to make their way up snow-covered streets during a winter storm in Fussen, Germany.
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  • A woman walks by homes and up the road in a holler that is at the base of a mountain mine site.
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  • A businessmen crosses a street where patterns of reflected buildings make a geometric pattern in Chile's bustling capital city.<br />
Approximately three decades of uninterrupted economic growth have transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most sophisticated metropolitan areas, with extensive suburban development, dozens of shopping malls, and impressive high-rise architecture.
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  • Outmaneuvering rush hour gridlock, motorcycles rank as the vehicle of choice for many Santiago commuters. Dressed in a business suit and tie with a helmet, a Chilean businessman parks his motorcycle on a side street with lines of other bikes. Chile's bustling capital and largest city thrives on manufacturing, finance and trade.
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  • Restored Colonial colonnades edge Lima's Plaza de Armas, bringing many people into the streets of Peru's capital city. The era when the City of Kings was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535, established it as the showplace of Spanish South America.
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  • Modern office buildings in Beijing.
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  • Plastic artificial flowers for sale in Mumbai, India.
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  • Street scene in Nairobi at corner of Kenyatta and Kimathi in the city center.
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  • A man on horseback rides through downtown Hanga Roa.
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  • The Ahu Tautira statue looms behind a girl in a swimsuit.
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  • The remote town of Oktyabrsky.
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  • A young woman talking on a cell phone on a street at night.
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  • October Holiday week along the Bund on the Puxi side of Shanghai where this couple is one of the lucky ones. “Bare Branches”—a phenomenon where a boy just cannot find a girl is becoming more and more of a social problem. According to the 2010 census, there were 118.06 boys born for every 100 girls. For the population born between 1900 and 2000, it is estimated that there could be 35.59 million fewer females than males. Maybe everyone eventually can have a car, but can every boy find a girl?
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  • There is a reason Guangzhou was the first city in China to reach first world status (2008). Everyone in Guangzhou, aside from the migrant population, is making an average of $830 a month. Money has approximately four times more buying power in China than the U.S., so that $830 equals $3320 a month in our economy. That is the same buying power of average citizens in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
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  • Outside an American chain coffee-house in the Xintiandi mall area.
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  • A street scene with a Coca Cola kiosk.
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  • Southern Metropolitan News surveys since 1989 cite Guangzhou residents as saying that “love” comes after “money” on the value ladder. In 2008 “love” slipped even lower for most people, according to a survey by the Guangzhou Social Trend and Public Opinion Study Center. The center has conducted a survey each year since 1990. Another finding of the survey is that money has universally meant more than love in the eyes of women in Guangzhou for all years the survey has been given.
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  • Street scene outside Ghoray Shah temple.
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  • The old city area of Lahore.
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  • Street scene in Nairobi at corner of Kenyatta and Kimathi in the city center.
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  • People walk along streets and pedestrian bridges in the historic center of Quito.
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  • An aerial view of the Wooded Isle in Chicago's Jackson Park. Located south of the city on Lake Michigan, the park was planned in 1890 and designed  for the World's Fair. <br />
Frederick Law Olmsted worked with Calvert Vaux to create the park with a lagoon that started as a treeless marsh. Olmsted planned terraces and pedestrian walkways that were surrounded by neo-classical styled buildings. The one on the north side of the park presently houses the Museum of Science and Industry.
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  • A young daredevil bicyclist rides down a carriage road that is closed to vehicular traffic in Iroquois Park. Frederick Law Olmsted created a network of pedestrian pathways and curving roads for carriages, but might not have ever imagined this use.<br />
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Iroquois Park is known for its panoramic views and long winding roads to the top of 725-acre park in Louisville, Kentucky.  Three parks Olmstead planned in Louisville are named to honor a Native American Indian tribe—Cherokee, Shawnee and Iroquois—that once shared the dark and bloody hunting grounds of Old Kentucky.
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