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  • Women panning for gold in the dust of streets full of garbage.
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  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • Women panning for gold in the dust of streets full of garbage.
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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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  • A couple kissing in the streets of downtown Reykjavik.
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  • Boys herd goats through the streets for tourists to see.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash line the streets in the Philippines.
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  • Elevated view of Main Street with cars, pedestrians, and buildings.
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  • Gypsy street musicians in Istanbul.
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  • Morning sunlight reflections dapple W. Adams Street near Berghoff restaurant.
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  • A rainy night in Chicago on State Street.
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  • Restored homes grace a street in the old Wicker Park neighborhood.
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  • State Street and the Chicago Theatre on a rainy night.
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  • Migrant workers with jobs as moving men, play on the street outside an office building.
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  • Street scene in Harappa.
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  • Men sitting outside a shop on a street known for wedding attire. Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who move to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. According to Chinese government statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at 120 million (approximately 9% of the population). China is now experiencing the largest mass migration of people from the countryside to the city in history. An estimated 230 million Chinese (2010), roughly equivalent to two-thirds the population of the U.S., have left the countryside and migrated to the cities in recent years. About 13 million more join them every year—an expected 250 million by 2012, and 300 to perhaps 400 million by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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  • Street scene of Kireka outside Kampala.
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  • A young woman talking on a cell phone on a street at night.
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  • Street scene in Multan.
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  • Street scene in Nairobi at corner of Kenyatta and Kimathi in the city center.
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  • A young woman laughing on a street in the Chaoyang district.
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  • A street corner in Hong Kong near Nathan Road.
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  • Elevated view of Main Street with cars, pedestrians, and buildings.
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  • Street scene outside Ghoray Shah temple.
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  • Street Scene Beijing China.
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  • A woman talking on a cell phone on a city street at night.
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  • A street scene with a Coca Cola kiosk.
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  • A street in Zhapo is reflected in a  restaurant fish tank.
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  • Sex workers talk with women trying to help them who work for Quito's Office of Social Inclusion.  They are issuing official identification cards to prostitutes and attempting to help improve their working conditions. They stand on the street near the Santa Domingo cathedral in the historic district.
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  • A trash collector on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • BBoy dancers stop traffic with their acrobatic moves on a city street in Old Quito. Hip hop is popular with young people in Ecuador, and these guys are members of a dance troupe that performs around the city.
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  • Daily life on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • Daily life on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • A trash collector on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • Trash trucks on Jacinto-Vitas street in Baseco area.
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  • Bathing in a sidewalk trough on the streets of Kolkata.
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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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  • People ignore the monsoon rain while strolling the streets on Christmas eve.
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  • People walk along streets and pedestrian bridges in the historic center of Quito.
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  • This Indian festival in the Ramblas Catalunya area of Barcelona is called Vaisakhi.  These are Sikhs from Punjab that started a procession in Ramblas Raval and carried it thru Ramblas Catalunya and ended at the Plaza St. Augustine. The festival includes the passing out of huge amounts of food.  The men in this street hauled cart after shopping cart of fresh fruit and passed it out to the public.
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  • There are 2.6 billion armpits in China, according to an ad man, and someone has to sell them deodorant. This shop-owner (right) thinks a guy wandering Nanjing Road in a full knight suit will do the trick for his snack shop.
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  • 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 pulling it across an already stressed grid 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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  • The Baseco Slums in Manila is known as the Recycling and Plastic Waste Industry hub of the Philippines. Trucks loaded with plastic trucks on the right side of the frame are caught up in congestion in Manila traffic which ranks as some of the worst in the world.  Infrastructure problems, high population and accidents are some of the causes.
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  • These plastic flowers from China are in a street market in Mumbai. Plastic from the Dharavi slums goes to China as pellets and comes back as flowers.<br />
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The Dharavi slum was founded in 1882 during the British colonial era, and grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from the migration of poor rural Indians into urban Mumbai.<br />
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Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of the residents.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park. Seventy couples participated in a mass marriage event that started at a shopping mall and ended up in Century Park for the ceremony.
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  • The Kumkapi neighborhood, primarily immigrant, in Istanbul.
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  • Children in a parade commemorating the opening of Parliament in 1920.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Billboards advertising gold wedding jewelry.
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  • Onlookers watch an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • The Dharavi slum area of Mumbai.
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  • Indian Muslims at the call to prayer on the roof of a Kolkata mosque.
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  • Poolside dining at the Clevelander Hotel, a popular nightspot.
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  • Poolside dining at the Clevelander Hotel, a popular nightspot.
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  • As twilight falls on a darkened street scene in Mendrisio, candle-lit banners from the 17th and 18th century glow depicting Christ's passion. Villagers rush home to prepare for a somber processional that flows through the streets celebrating Holy Week.
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  • People walking in Shenzhen on a rainy night.
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  • A girl plays in the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • High school students at the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • Traffic in Shenzhen at night.
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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park.
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  • A young woman adjusting hair and makeup.
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  • A young woman talking on a cell phone.
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  • Guards on the Bund during the October week holiday.
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  • A dragon dance for promotional purposes on East Nanjing Road.
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  • Workers pull electrical power lines above pedestrians.
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  • Satellite dishes in the fishing village of Pulau Misa.
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  • The Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market and restaurant area in Hong Kong.
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  • The fishing village of Saint Louis on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Dried shark fins sold at the Guangzhou Fish Market.
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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry.
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  • A neon sign reflected in the window of a bus.
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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry.
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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry.
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  • Billboards advertising gold jewelry.
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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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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • Immigrants in the Nisanca neighborhood of Istanbul.
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  • A walkway from the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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  • A young woman with a camera in a pedestrian shopping area.
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  • A young woman in costume during the October Week holiday.
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  • Guards on the Bund during the October week holiday.
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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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  • Pedestrians in downtown Shanghai.
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  • Marriage is different in China, from mass weddings like this, to the “bare branches” phenomenon where there are not enough women for all the men to marry. Couples aspire to the ideal of the billboard above them—the one-child family. But will their son be able to find a girl? According to the 2010 census, there were 118.06 boys born for every 100 girls, which is 0.53 points lower than the ratio obtained from a population sample survey carried out in 2005. However, the gender ratio of 118.06 is still beyond the normal range of around 105 percent, and experts warn of increased social instability should this trend continue. For the population born between 1900 and 2000, it is estimated that there could be 35.59 million fewer females than males. So maybe everyone eventually has a car, but can every boy have a girl? It is important for China’s leaders to placate the Comfort Class. From issues of grave consequence to trivialities, the government has made clear that it will do whatever it takes to keep the swelling middle class happy. In Beijing, for example, newly prosperous residents are snapping up automobiles at a rate of 1,000 a day. The number of vehicles on the capital’s sclerotic roads has doubled in the past five years, to 3 million, or about a million more vehicles than in all of New York City.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park.
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  • Reflection of a teenage schoolgirl sitting behind her father in a car.
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  • Shoppers in pajamas in the 200 block of Guangdong road near the Bund.
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  • Shoppers in pajamas in the 200 block of Guangdong road near the Bund.
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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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  • People on the 236 bus in Guangzhou.
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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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