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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Sunset will not stop these workers in Ping Fang Xiang from continuining their labor well past dark. They are rewarded for early completion of a project..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A testament to individual drive, and the need for a consistent income, this laborer well into his sixties carts a load of mortar to bricklayers in Ping Fang Xiang.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2004. An important but neglected part of China?s labor force, a worker moves on carrying the tools of his trade..
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
    160403 jd chavezmarch20.JPG
  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • With cries of “Si Se Puede” ringing out in a sea of red United Farm Worker flags, hundreds of people joined forces in east Salinas on Sunday morning to help rejuvenate the annual march honoring labor leader César Chávez.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Migrant laborers moved into this neighborhood for the renovation work, sleeping in temporary shelters and cooking thier own meals long after dark.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Laborers demolish the brick facing of a Ping Fang Xiang runoff channel, in preparation for covering it over permanently..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A coal brick stamping machine in Ping Fang Xiang requires a number of laborers to both feed it and remove the finished pressed form from the area..
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  • Burkina Faso, Dori, 2007. A brick maker labors at the bottom of a water hole where the clay is good.
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  • China, Beijing, 2007. Repairmen are crucial to China's disappearing bicycle culture. An inner tube hung on a tree or a pump standing up on the street helps people find these important and frequently cheerful laborers. .
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  • China, Taiyuan, 2007. A worker looking for day work waits patiently alongside the road near Luyashan in Shanxi Province..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. A restaurant rises from the rubble all around fifty feet back from where it once stood. Although many businesses that faced forcible eviction could not afford to rebuild, this one did, and will survive.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. His load complete, a "furniture man" pedals his three-wheel cart away from a profitable day's work. Virtually everything of value business owners did not want in the evictions was recycled.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. The Chaoyang Street intersection across from Beijing International Studies University is a study in turmoil, with literally every store, road, utility and building ripped up and reworked.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Within a month of its destruction, the San Jian Fang corner seen in #13 of this series rises again, construction nearly matching the pace of demolition..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A German shepherd does his best to guard the open borders of a Ping Fang Xiang brick construction site..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. An Chaoyang Street area undergoing simultaneous construction and demolition. Street widening in this working-class area has brought protests against eviction without compensation..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. A restaurant that has joined a business owner's protest using "death" wreaths seems to be spared destruction for the moment. Superstition may have a role in explaining why it is still standing.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. View of a restaurant protesting forcible eviction by using "death" wreaths, traditionally reserved for funerals. Superstition may have prevented authorities from demolishing this building..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. A resident walks by the ruins of Chaoyang Street businesses east of Beijing International Studies University. Many will never be rebuilt.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Part of a large group of itinerant recyclers, this man specializes in anything made of metal. An empty Chaoyang Street restaurant is behind him.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. An army of recyclers descends on the wreckage of businesses demolished in Chaoyang Street widening. Each has his own specialty, as does this "wire man."
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. An elderly woman rummages through the wreckage of a local Chaoyang street restaurant searching for anything of value.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. A child watches the action from the safety of a transport vehicle's cab. Young children can often be seen near low-tech construction zones such as these demolitions.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. One of the few powered machines in a largely manual demolition effort along Chaoyang Street, in the far east of the city center. Much of the work is done by sledgehammer or shovel.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Construction teams moved onto Chaoyang Street in short order, often working side-by-side with demolition crews and sharing the same temporary shelters.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Quilts hang out to dry amid the renovations all around Chaoyang Street east of the city center. Many traditional home are now exposed in this way.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Virtually everything made of wood is this recycler's goal, using little more than a traditional Chinese kitchen knife and a "sanluche," or three-wheel bicycle cart.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. A "wood man" salvages anything he can carry on his pushcart from Chaoyang Street demolition sites..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Looking east on Chaoyang Lu, far from the city center, chaos reigns as small businesses are torn down in a massive street widening project..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Shuttered forever by street widening, a restaurant defiantly refuses to move. A plea to municipal officials for compensation is in the front windows - the wall reads "To pledge our lives to defend the constitution and resist illegal demolition, to pledge our lives to maintain businessmen's legal rights."
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. In protest against eviction without compensation, a restaurant closes but refuses to move. The Chinese characters read "to pledge our lives to protect the constitution and resist illegal demolition, to pledge our lives to maintain businessmen's legal rights."
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Owners of Chaoyang Street businesses in the San Jian Fang area plead with the government for compensation. Buildings have been forcibly closed then demolished without explanation..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. A restaurant makes a public protest against being evicted. Hundreds of small businesses along Chaoyang Street have been demolished to the east and west of this corner..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Students note a neighborhood restaurant's cry for help. The wreath in the window is traditionally reserved for funerals.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. An exhausted demolition worker rests in the doorway of a Chaoyang Street business being torn down far east of the city center..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. New bricks are being used on this project in Ping Fang Xiang, as demolition and recycling of old structures cannot keep up with the pace of construction here.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Shown in March, 2008, a channel carrying toxic gray water through Ping Fang Xiang village is now covered over, one of the improvements brought to residents by the government..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Beautiful if one doesn't look too closely, a waste-water channel runs blue and gray as it mixes with pollution. This waterway, shown in October, 2007 was covered over permanently by March, 2008..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Children play right in the middle of one of Ping Fang Xiang's numerous construction sites. This project is utilizing recycled bricks to improve local housing..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Bricklayers work from early morning until well into the night on Ping Fang Xiang's new construction projects. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. In this neighborhood, pollution is a serious unaddressed problem. To its credit, the government has begun to tackle the cleanup of toxic areas like this reservoir in Ping Fang Xiang. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. On the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, a coal delivery woman observes the brick stamping process..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Coal brick delivery men laugh as they jockey their three-wheelers in front of the yard on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Curiosity gets the better of this young village boy next to the coal brick yard, as he watches the action outside..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A poor part of Ping Fang Xiang seen in the light of late afternoon. A coal brick yard works next door. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A brick delivery three-wheeler takes a break near new construction on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. North of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, a new housing community takes shape on former Ping Fang Xiang fields..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Slowly but surely, teams of men using little more than pickaxes and sledgehammers destroy a swath of housing to make way for new development in Ping Fang Xiang..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. An industrious metal forager strips eveything down to its essential parts in order to sell it in the Ping Fang Xiang receycling yards..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Everything has value in this carefully maintained recycling yard in Ping Fang Xiang.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Parents stream into the local kindergarten to pick up their children. China's tremendous efforts to educate its population means Ping Fang Xiang will probably get a new school..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. New construction and an old graveyard contrast between Ping Fang Xiang and Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Along Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, evidence of progress, but also of lives in transition..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Workers demolish their temporary homes now that the Ding Fu Jia Yuan development next to Ping Fang Xiang village is complete..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Lime lines mark what is to be preserved and what is to be re-made. Much of the village's land has been sold or appropriated for development..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A mother sits in the doorway of her home in Ping Fang Xiang. Though new housing will soon be available, they are unlikely to be able to afford even the low prices offered by the central government..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Coping with year-round construction is the unfortunate lot of these Ping Fang Xiang families close to new developments. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. The new red buildings of Ding Fu Jia Yuan rise above Ping Fang Xiang residences still being torn down.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Alone amid demolished housing surrounding it a residence remain intact, the owner perhaps resisting offers to move elsewhere..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Temporary walls and a gravel road meant for heavy duty trucks make rough going for residents. New housing is being offered to locals for heavily discounted prices..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Happy to still have a job, a restaurant worker flashes a smile as he transports goods from the shell of the old to the kitchen of the new.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. The north side of Chaoyang Street near the back gate of Beijing International Studies University, now a wreck undergoing a complete renovation.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Popular with students and residents alike, little now remains of the Chaoyang Street businesses across the street from the back gate of Beijing International Studies University. See image 33 in this series for a "before" view.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Stripped of their insides, the corner businesses across the street from the back gate of Beijing International Studies University await demolition. See image 34 in this series.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Out of a job, for now, the manager of Jie Jie, a popular local restaurant, and one of the cooks spare a smile in the ruins of their establishment. They are lucky, and will be employed again at another branch.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Halfway between the destruction of the old and the opening of the new, idled restaurant workers along Chaoyang Street while away the afternoon with a card game.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Taking care with his work, a bricklayer helping to rebuild Chaoyang street businesses puts the finishing touches on a wall.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Wooden beams like these salvaged from Chaoyang Street businesses will be reused elsewhere in new structures. Bricks are commonly recycled right on the spot to save transportation costs.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Many businesses fronting Chaoyang Street had little choice in whether they would follow municipal government eviction orders, as crews like this were quick to move in.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Working with only sledgehammers and flatbed trucks, demolition crews make short work of structure built mostly of brick. What little steel reinforcement bar there is will be salvaged.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Working until well after sunset, a construction crew keeps up a steady pace through the early summer heat in Beijing.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Dusk's temperature change is welcomed by workers laying pipe to go beneath a new road surface in Beijing.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. A migrant worker's child surveys a rough-and-tumble playground just off Chaoyang Street far east of the city center.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. A woman heads toward her home through the rubble of businesses demolished to make way for road expansion.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Demolition workers head home in a blue diesel flatbed truck. Hundreds of businesses have been summarily evicted to make way for the widening of Chaoyang Street east of the city center..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Life goes on as usual after demolition teams armed only with sledgehammers reduced this corner to rubble..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Signs of protest seen from inside a restaurant forced to close on Chaoyang Street. In the windows are death wreaths, usually reserved for funerals.
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. In the ruins of a restaurant protesting forcible eviction, a card advertising the specialty of the house: "pao jiao," or pickled pepper beef..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Lanterns on in the middle of the day, a restaurant that was forcibly closed resists moving. Street widening of Chaoyang Street was mandated by the municipal authorities..
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  • China, Beijing, Chaoyang, San Jian Fang, 2008. Months of demolition along Chaoyang Street have left businesses desperate to sell whatever they have - this store had its windows broken..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A bricklayer in Ping Fang Xiang breaks into a wide smile at being photographed. Despite a glut of office spaces in Beijing, the pace of new construction has brought thousands of necessary jobs to Chinese craftsmen..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Fields shown empty in October, 2007 are under construction by March, 2008. Ping Fang Xiang's farmers are compensated for their land and offered cut-rates on the new development..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Screened off for good reason, this runoff channel of toxic water in the village center is being covered over - one of the many improvements that are being made..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. On the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, economic progress has been slow to come to these residents..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. This coal brick stamping machine in Ping Fang Xiang can turn out hundreds of bricks per hour, provided it is fed by hand. Workers stand by to load three-wheel carts for neighborhood delivery.
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. The air outside the center of Beijing's has a markedly different quality at night. Polluting coal bricks like these, made in Ping Fang Xiang, are the only way many villagers have to heat their old brick homes.  Power lines criss-cross the neighborhood on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. A delivery man's hand, seen at his Ping Fang Xiang coal factory on the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu. .
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. On the north side of Chao Yang Bei Lu outside the 5th Ring Road, bricklayers set a fuious pace on a new building..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Skeletons of new houses rise behind the rubble of old businesses north of Chao Yang Bei Lu..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Sunset along one of Ping Fang Xiang's outlying streets, with the new development of Ding Fu Jia Yuan in the distance..
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  • China, Beijing, Ping Fang Xiang, 2008. Temporary walls mark new construction sites right next door to a part of Ping Fang Xiang village, which has been slowly segmented..
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