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A pawn shop. A firecracker factory. A cattle yard. These are elements of a great city’s past, but what about the future?

These days, Macau residents are more likely to be graphic designers, marketing executives or small business owners than they are to be farmers or factory workers. So Macao, Asia’s first European settlement, has gotten creative, repurposing its many old buildings to serve a new generation of locals without losing its sense of history.