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[Field-Homework 3] Dynamic City: Tsuen Wan Town Hall

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[Field-Homework 3] Dynamic City: Tsuen Wan Town Hall   Director: Chan Long Hei One photo from https://www.lcsd.gov.hk/tc/twth/40a/town.html was featured in the video.   Video link: https://youtu.be/kxMFTESChwo?feature=shared The Tsuen Wan Town Hall (below as TWTH) is part of a series of infrastructural buildings built during 1970s to 1980s, such as the Tsuen Wan Multi-Storey Carpark, Tsuen Wan Magistrates’ Court, and Tsuen Wan Market.¹³This 1980 established building adopts a simple functionalist cuboid shaped design, with minimalist windows allowing natural light. Its dull grey and dirty white exterior results in an overall inconspicuous appearance. It houses an Auditorium, Cultural Activities Hall, Exhibition Gallery,

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[Reading Response] : The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities

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The reading discusses various examples of sci-fi migratory cities in fictitious films. However, as all films do, the phenomena could be explained by societal desires and anxieties.    Using one example, the Walker City in Flood (2009) was a mobile “self-contained mini-city” supported by advanced heavy machinery that allowed it to move on and roam the catastrophically-devastated post-global climate change Earth, constantly scavenging for food and resources for its residents. The tale brings forward the realistic fear of reallife city-dwellers, as symptoms of climate change bit-by-bit propels cities in our very real-lives to transform. The air temperature gets higher and

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[Mood Board] “Inter-National City- Fruit Market” Chan Long Hei

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The Fruit Market had been a significant key player in the wholesale fruit industry in Hong Kong, a city serving as the port the Western world and the nearest city to the relatively closed Mainland China. It was almost one of the only methods that fruit could be traded between China and the rest of the world. It is hoped to recreate the sensation of the fruit market as strategic position in its golden days via this mood board. uid 3036220137

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Moving House Reflection

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Chan Long Hei 3036220137 The contrasting attitudes of the family catches my attention. Sometimes they pay serious respect to the dead, eg following the Daoist traditions, getting a priest, shielding the dead from the sun, but sometimes they do actions that may be deemed disrespectful, such as making fun of the bones and smashing the tombstone and the coffin. Another interesting point is that eventually the dead gets an “apartment” too, just like the living would receive from public housing using the land freed from the tomb.

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［FIELDWORK］Little Cheung, Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market

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Chan Long Hei 3036220137 Chau Leo Li-Heng 3036238598 Podcast link: https://youtu.be/eUiWmr81yhk Transcript: The Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market is privately owned¹ and sits between Ferry Street, Waterloo Road, Reclamation Street and Ching Ping Street. When it first established in 1913¹, it was waterfront¹⁴, built with haystacks⁶ and provided wholesale service for fruits, vegetables, fish and poultry³. The latter three were relocated to Wholesale Markets in Cheung Sha Wan and other districts in 1965, 1960s, 1974 respectively³. Due to reclamation near Reclamation Street, the Market became gradually inland, only fruit trade remains in it nowadays. The current two-storey pre-war Grade

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[Reading Response] : Walking in the City by Micheal de Certeau

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The street view, use of proper names, the walking pedestrians and their speech, numbers and memories makes a city a city. Films taking place in cities captures an assortment of different fragments of residents’ lives; together all of these collage into an archive that represents urban city life at the setting.   Residents are the water that brings life into a city. They move through architecture, resides in it and uses it. They infiltrate alleyways, parks and crossroads to reach destinations via routes that aren’t designed to (e.g. in Chongqing getting to places could be much faster via elevated roads

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