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Billboard Reflected in the Rice Paddy
©troy cochrane
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| Canada is a land of open spaces. Taiwan is not. Rural-urban blending is found everywhere. People will turn any available space into a farming venture: a ditch or empty lot becomes a rice paddy, an unused porch is turned into a chicken coop. In Canada urban expansion is constantly encroaching on farmland, | pushing the city boundaries further and further outward. In some cities, you can stand on the outskirts of a city and look to one side at houses and large buildings, and to the other side at open expanses of grain fields. In Taiwan, the urban sprawls outward, intermingling with the rural, crowding it, but not crowding it out. |
©troy cochrane