It is with great pleasure (and some sadness because of the topic) to announce the publication of my first collaboration with the New York Times. I shot both video and stills for a story concerning the upcoming redevelopment of Gulou, one of the last historic hutong neighborhoods in Beijing. Whenever I lived in Beijing over the past ten years, I always tried to locate myself in or around Gulou. It is one of my favorite places in the city and will be a great loss if the municipal government carries through with the project. Right now there are very few independent organizations that monitor and protect these hutong neighborhoods, but the best is the Beijing Cultural Heritage Project. However, with very little recourse for legal action, it seems that the developers will have their way in the long run. It is very hard to stop the juggernaut of urban development in China as city planners tend to have little care for or concept of historical preservation.