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      <image:title>Blog - Driving In Xinyang</image:title>
      <image:caption>Left: One of the bridges over the Shihe looking south. Right: the pagoda that purified the city’s south side for development</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Maojian tea mountains</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Left: Intersection outside Renfang Hutong. Right: leaving the Shihe Park.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Courtyard outside the apartment. These buildings are U shaped with interior courtyards. Some are still used for socializing but others have been converted into parking spaces</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>New Xinyang versus Old Xinyang</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-06</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://manylivesofbuildings.com/blog/baltimores-ethiopian-chinatown</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-28</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Tabor’s tibs and sambusas</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Source: Addis Ethiopian</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My sentimental photo of the SS Rhein.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>To everything there is a season, and a time for adaptive reuse. - Ecclesiastes 3:1</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>So we carve this big area into fifteen rooms. Hear me out.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Left: tenants will enjoy waking up to this. Right: more of an acquired taste.</image:caption>
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