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Beijing museum of urban planning: when gods walked upon the earth

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Xian + vanishing points

Last night we visited a musical fountain in a new part of Xian.  It was ridiculously huge… a couple of blocks long at least. Today we saw some of the excavated pits of the Chin terra cotta statues. They, too, … Continue reading

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Tanjong Pagar->KL Sentral

I’m killing a bit of time in the Kuala Lumpur train station, waiting for the ticket office to open so I can pay for my seat to Ipoh.  There’s a TV in the corner running political coverage, and the Malaysian … Continue reading

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Traffic

It’s hard to convey in a photo just how crowded the shipping lane over to my right is.  Some of the time it really looks quite a bit like a freeway. (Click the photo to expand.) After pointing out and … Continue reading

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Newater, part 2

The Newater visitor center includes a small-scale version of the vast treatment plant that I ride past every day.  They use a three-stage process:  micro-filtration, reverse-osmosis, and UV filtration. Bundles of tiny, porous tubes which take up filtered water.  Some … Continue reading

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Newater Visitor Centre

Let’s see if I can do a satellite embed… View Larger Map That (if all is well with Google Maps) is an aerial view of the weird factory that I ride by every day on my way into town.  It … Continue reading

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The committee said there is also a need for an underground master plan. It said the government should catalyse the development of underground space over the next decade. The committee also emphasized a need to develop subterranean land rights, a … Continue reading

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Marina bay

I took the long trip to the Esplanade on Friday in search of my favorite food and to check out the progress on the new waterfront development that was just starting when I was last here. The food was a … Continue reading

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Rail Trail

The hotel I’m staying at faces Highway 101.  This being California, I expected to need to drive everywhere, but there turns out to be an excellent sidewalk running alongside the highway for most of the length of Solana Beach.  The … Continue reading

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