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[Field-Homework 3] Street-hybrid city

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[Field-Homework 3] Street–hybrid city: —— Kennedy town, sheung wang, victoria harbor https://youtu.be/jHkwm–xy7g?feature=shared 1 sentence statement: coexistence of Chinese/western culture description of the video Man Mo Temple is located on Hollywood Road in Sheung Wang. This is a representative of Chinese culture and a Taoist temple. It is a first-class historical building and a statutory monument in Hong Kong. It is mainly dedicated to Emperor Wenchang and Emperor Wu. Looking at this building, you can see that it has obvious Chinese characteristics. The unique eaves and walls of the traditional Chinese courtyard make it particularly conspicuous in the high-rise streets of Hong Kong.

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Reading response 2-Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City

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This article mainly discusses three Asian apartment horror movies with different themes and analyzes why ghost movies and ghost stories have different styles according to the different structural characteristics of cities in each region. The first theme is adjacent communities, which mainly appear in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. The second theme is that the biggest fear is loneliness, which mainly occurs in Japan, South Korea, an economically developed country. The last theme is that ghosts are the failure of economic success, aiming to continue to migrate the population from the countryside to the city. The main example is Bangkok,

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[Field Report] The erase of past

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Shan Yiyi 3036267886 Zhang Lingge 303310967 Video link:  https://youtu.be/xQEHGwX3MHc?feature=shared This expedition started from Shanghai Street and finally came to Langhao place, witnessing the transformation from early Hong Kong society to the modern prosperous metropolis. During the investigation, we saw many slightly older buildings and were sure that they would disappear in ten years. Q1. What is the space/place/artefact/building that is vanishing? The building we chose to explain which will disappear within ten years is an old-fashioned Tang building located in Argyle Street. The institutions inside the building include the Construction Pharmaceutical Trade Union and the hometown association, which have now

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Cuts through Hong Kong I want to analyze this article from two aspects: the shooting methods and the change of era in Hong Kong. First of all, let’s talk about the shooting method. The film cleverly uses the switching of scenes to describe the atmosphere and emotions that the film wants to convey to the audience. For example, the space collage of different rooms shows the high density and congestion of Hong Kong residences; the lens conversion directly through the partition wall reflects the symmetry of the layout. Then， Let’s see how the film explains the change of era in

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