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[Field-Homework 3] Hybrid City- Hawker Stalls

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Luk Sin Ching Icy (3036227989) Hybrid City: Hawker Stalls Hawking could be described as one of the significant Hong Kong cultures. However, out of many factors, hawker stalls would vanish in a few decades. Creating a hybrid is a must to retain this hawking culture and ingratiate the urban. Hawker stalls in Hong Kong are vendors of street food and affordable goods. For many decades, hawker stalls have served a purpose for the lower class to make a living in Hong Kong, allowing patrons to buy goods at a more affordable price and they are always easier to locate. From

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[Reading Response 2]: The Multilevel Metropolis by Jennifer Yoo and Vincent James

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Luk Sin Ching (3036227989) This chapter raises an interesting phenomenon that skywalks, footbridges, or skyways have become the symbol of urbanism worldwide. These skywalks have radically altered the form and spatial logic of cities around the world. For example, Hong Kong has floating three-dimensional circuits that connect transit stations, shopping malls, office towers, and parks. But why do we have skywalks? Civic leaders began to “pedestrianize” their urban centers and connect and consolidate interior spaces through skybridges and arcades, to make downtown convenient, comfortable, safe, and climate-controlled for office workers and shoppers. The spatial ambiguity created by the stacked circulation levels

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Cat Links Workshop 2: Dreamland Film Screening + Director's Chat

Workshop Exercise 2- Luk Sin Ching

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It was a sulky night, the castle was only a shadowy form. Moon and stars were hiding behind the thick clouds. Water droplets splashed on the stone floor, puddles formed. The terrain was a little less groomed and a little lumpier with stones and peddles. Reflection of the castle and the slightest hint of light was shown in the puddles, as icy wind blew itself, rain crept down my neck, the reflection in the puddles shivered in the same rhythm of me. There were students stepped straightly into the drizzly rain, rushing to the gate, desperate to hide from the

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[Reading Response]: Leaving Movie Theatre by Roland Barthes

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Luk Sin Ching (3036227989) Looking on the surface, this article is about the experience of leaving the movie theatre, but then looking under the surface, this article is about the immersion of a film when it is showcased in theatre. Watching a movie in the theatre is completely different from watching a movie at home. Especially in this new millennial, online streaming platform is very popular, such as Disney plus, Netflix and HBO. Therefore, people would prefer not spending money on buying the ticket to get into the movie theatre. However, according to the article, there is such thing as

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