Author: Zhou Manze

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Final Video Essay

[Field-Homework 3] Construction City, Construction site, Hong Kong Central

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Word Count (Excluding Credits and Reference): 888  Description of the theme and subject matter, including the places and components The main theme of the video is about the ongoing construction activities surrounding the observation wheel in Hong Kong Central. In my view, this site under construction may cause some trouble at the moment, but it tend to have many positive effects on Hong Kong in the future. In order to provide a comprehensive understanding and analysis, a range of photographs and videos captured during the fieldwork were utilized. Although the observation wheel in Central is a well-known tourist attraction, the tourism industry in

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 8: Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response 2] The Imaginary Real World of Cyber-Cities

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I believe that both Machine Cities and CyberCities have emerged to create technologically advanced and connected urban environments. I will discuss how they affect people’s lives mainly from my perspective and personal experience. As the architectural space of the Machine City can accommodate and integrate advanced intelligent transportation technologies, I think this will improve our daily lives to a great extent. For example, I often suffer from traffic congestion, which negatively affects both my mood and efficiency. When urban space can accommodate an efficient traffic management system, our time can be saved. Also, reducing traffic congestion can reduce automobile emissions, which

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Fieldwork

[Fieldwork Report] The Mighty Peking Man

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Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Dolwu8mIiQY Transcript: Z: Hello, I’m Dorothy, and today we’re delving into a unique intersection between film and architecture. W: And I’m Makayla. We’ll be exploring the theme of vanishing spaces through two lenses: the natural world in film and urban development in reality. Z: The cinema, much like architecture, is a vessel for our collective dreams and fears. In ‘The Mighty Peking Man,’ the dense foliage of the primeval forest is not simply a backdrop but a character in its own right—an embodiment of a world that once was. Here, the forest breathes, fights, and succumbs, much like our urban

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Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 3: The Post-war Asian City as Set

[Reading Response]: Noirs: The City, the Woman and Other Spaces by Seng

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This article mainly discusses two film genres, namely melodrama and noir thriller set in the context of the working and upper classes in Hong Kong. Two films, Black Rose and Elevator Girl, both released in 1965 impressed me the most. The difference between the two films is that the heroines in Black Rose, the Chen sisters, come from the upper class, whereas the heroine in Elevator Girl, Nam, comes from the working class. The difference in the way the scene transitions were shot also intrigued me. In Black Rose, the scene is shot from a villa to a back alley,

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