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		<title>Presenting Mughal Gardens on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/11/presenting-mughal-gardens-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across this site, hosted by Smithsonian Productions, that has some interesting parallels to my project on Maqrizi. "Gardens of the Mughal Empire" attempts to demonstrate how places were experienced. The viewer is invited to "follow in the footsteps of the Mughal emperors" and move from garden to garden.]]></description>
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		<title>Redeeming an Expressway: Sufjan Stevens and the BQE</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/10/redeeming-an-expressway-sufjan-stevens-and-the-bqe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sufjan Stevens has released his symphonic suite commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music for performance in 2007. The work takes its inspiration from the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, pictured on the album cover and completed in 1964. The first question to ask about BQE is "What kind of work is this?" The packaging makes the answer clear: it's a soundtrack to a big visual production.]]></description>
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		<title>Hypercities</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/10/hypercities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hypercities is a website I've been watching for a while, and it's beginning to get enough content that I can make some comments about this attempt at spatial scholarship on the Internet. The possibilities opened up by the spatial capabilities of the Internet are exciting to contemplate, but it's difficult to get the combination just right—so that it really works.]]></description>
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		<title>Through New York City with Herzog</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/09/through-new-york-city-with-herzog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saul Bellow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite section of Herzog is a six page section in which Moses Herzog travels via the subway to the apartment of his mistress. It is a rich description of getting through New York, including this descent into the subway.]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking for Indian Mounds</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/08/breaking-for-indian-mounds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin once had thousands of these effigy mounds, but many have been plowed under or otherwise destroyed. You can see in the image above of the Nitschke Mounds County Park how the rich line of mounds abruptly ends at the top as they run into a field of corn. That's the general story for these effigy mounds: plowed under whenever they come into conflict with someone's plans for a rectangular field.]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Writing Now</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/08/travel-writing-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker this week is running the first of a two part series by Ian Frazier on traveling through Siberia. It is an article that has gotten me thinking about the nature of travel writing now. This is the kind of travel essay I come across infrequently.]]></description>
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		<title>Alexandria from Above and Below</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/alexandria-from-above-and-below/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1800, when Napoleon's scholars were making their images, Alexandria was a smallish city with the remains of a wall and various crumbling ruins. There was no corniche, certainly..]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Pompey&#8217;s Pillar</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/seeing-pompeys-pillar/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/seeing-pompeys-pillar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Alexandria is the great city of memory, it's now a thoroughly modern Egyptian city. Its cosmopolitan past—from the 1920s—is evident the easy-going manner one encounters on its streets. That cosmopolitan world is gone. A walk along the corniche at night is a brilliant parade of modern Egyptian life and values.]]></description>
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		<title>Tanta an Unknown Place</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/tanta-an-unknown-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern Egypt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tanta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now think of Tanta in Egypt. Here is a city with about 400,000 people—so about the size of Oakland, Minneapolis, or Colorado Springs. But it's a large city that's innocent of the maneuvers we expect from a large city. It has its popular mosque of Sayyid Badawi (see my slide show above). It has a minor university (see here). But after that one draws a blank as to what there is of importance in Tanta.]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Azhar Park</title>
		<link>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/al-azhar-park/</link>
		<comments>http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/07/al-azhar-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martyn Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cairo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived at al-Azhar Park with some skepticism.. and definitely curious as to how a park would function right next to historic Cairo. Would it be used mostly by foreigners? Would it appear an unnatural addition to the urban Cairo landscape? To my surprise I thought it worked very well.]]></description>
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