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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Of cities and stuff</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Destruction of old Peking</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/05/destruction-of-old-peking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, but how long before it is rebuilt as a theme park? Plaza de San Felipe Neri is one of the most interesting examples of the latter in Barcelona, but only in the demolition of marginal and shanty towns have Spanish planners approached the rigour of the Chinese authorities. Half of the valley of Torre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 sensational revelations concerning Étienne Cabet and his Journey to Icaria, with a biography of the author</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/06/10-sensational-revelations-concerning-etienne-cabet-and-his-journey-to-icaria-with-a-biography-of-the-author/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/06/10-sensational-revelations-concerning-etienne-cabet-and-his-journey-to-icaria-with-a-biography-of-the-author/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Of men and women]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of philosophers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Étienne Cabet&#8217;s Voyage en Icarie (excerpt) is his novelised idealisation of Napoleonic nationalist totalitarianism: if not exactly a New Jerusalem, then certainly a New Paris, built around a New Seine, designed by its dictator, the Icar. This book and its hype led hundreds of families, mainly French, principally artesans (sez James Chastain) to doom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open source Barcelona street map</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/10/open-source-barcelona-street-map/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/10/open-source-barcelona-street-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 11:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a lot of the Barcelona mapping at OpenStreetMap.org is already more detailed and reliable than some commercial products I&#8217;ve seen, although I briefly thought Plaça dels Angels had been mapped by skaters. Whatever happened to the UPC Barcelona mapping party?
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		<title>French saw Spanish property crash coming</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/29/french-saw-spanish-property-crash-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/29/french-saw-spanish-property-crash-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Early Middle]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently it&#8217;s quite well-known, but I only found it this morning in HG Bohn&#8217;s A hand-book of proverbs (1855), in the household reading room:
To build castles in the air. Far castelli in aria.&#8211;Ital. The French say, Faire des chateaux en Espagne.
It is tempting although perhaps erroneous to believe that this derives from Frankish experiences with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A couple of rumbas</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/28/a-couple-of-rumbas/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/28/a-couple-of-rumbas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Generic Manu Chao-ist dumbagogy in Che Sudaka&#8217;s latest ¡uf!re, but a nice little Raval puppet theatre by Marta Pujol &#038; Joan Picó:
Something with a bit more musical class (tho in playback) from pioneer Peret, Mataró-born and hence the only sensible reason why the genre is called rumba catalana instead of barcelonesa:

I sometimes wonder what would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to end Barcelona ban on &#8220;right to dry&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/17/time-to-end-barcelona-ban-on-right-to-dry/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/17/time-to-end-barcelona-ban-on-right-to-dry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We say we&#8217;re anti-nuclear and then buy electricity from the French; we say we care about water conservation while doing everything possible to make Barcelona unsustainable; but if we&#8217;re going to keep on moaning about the fuel consumption of the unspeakable Yankees, at least we could end eco-Barcelona&#8217;s facking absurd ban on hanging washing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of virtual travel writing</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/14/in-praise-of-virtual-travel-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/04/14/in-praise-of-virtual-travel-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nice story here about underpaid author Thomas Kohnstamm, who wrote his Lonely planet guide without going to Columbia. (Or did he go there and have to deal coke to survive? LD is characteristically confused.) 
Guidebooks are so superficial, and information online so plentiful, that there&#8217;s actually no reason now why they shouldn&#8217;t be written from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jaroslav Hašek in Barcelona, almost</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/24/jaroslav-hasek-in-barcelona-almost/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/24/jaroslav-hasek-in-barcelona-almost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of poets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just before he died, says Cecil Parrott in The bad Bohemian, the author of The good soldier Švejk (that&#8217;s Shvake: &#8220;No one pronounces it Shvike&#8211;not even in Germany&#8221;) drafted a letter to the district police:
I, the undersigned, ask respectfully to be kindly given the necessary passport for a stay in Spain (Barcelona, Calle Rosellos [sic: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gran Vía, heading north out of Barcelona</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/01/gran-via-heading-north-out-of-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/01/gran-via-heading-north-out-of-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Of the chariot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Actually Ludwig Hilberseimer, Entwurf für eine Hochhausstadt/Design for a high-rise city (1924). Hitler exported idealistic architects rather than bombs to the US. Hilberseimer ran the Chicago planning department for a while, and they and other public institutions have spent the last ten years tearing down projects built by him and other Bauhaus luminaries. 
Enthusiasm in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into the smog</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/01/15/into-the-smog/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/01/15/into-the-smog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of cities and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the chariot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the obelisk]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It hasn&#8217;t rained very much in Barcelona for quite a long time. You can see the filth awaiting this Renfe train as it passes the Fecsa power station heading south over the Besós.

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		<title>&#8220;Croydon, the new Barcelona&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/13/croydon-the-new-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/13/croydon-the-new-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This (thankyou, MM) is actually just about hair. Residents are to be ordered to drop the Croydon facelift and adopt the Barcelona mullet.
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		<title>Figures on bridge over the RENFE line near Montgat</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/10/03/figures-on-bridge-over-the-renfe-line-near-montgat/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/10/03/figures-on-bridge-over-the-renfe-line-near-montgat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/10/02/anonymous/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/10/02/anonymous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
One of the few surviving 20th century walls in northeast Barcelona. I&#8217;d recognise it anywhere.
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		<title>Did Columbus actually ever come to Barcelona?</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/17/did-columbus-actually-ever-come-to-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/17/did-columbus-actually-ever-come-to-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Letters of Alexander Von Humboldt to Varnhagen Von Ense (GBS):
On the 9th of June, 1839, Varnhagen writes in his diary: &#8220;Humboldt agrees with me in the assertion made by me at different times, that too much cannot be inferred from the silence of the historians. He refers to three highly important and undeniable facts, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aragon, maddest part of Spain</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/16/aragon-maddest-part-of-spain/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/16/aragon-maddest-part-of-spain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. T. was struck with the number of lunaticks confined in the several provinces of Spain:]]></description>
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