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[READING RESPONSE] Ackbar Abbas

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Abbas’s critique on the “disappearance” in Hong Kong in “Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance” intrigues me to look at our cityscape in a different way. As Hong Kong paves it’s way for urbanisation due to it’s growing prosperity, many old heritage buildings are replaced with highrise buildings. As these historic buildings are taken down, many of the original features are demolished, and replaced with only a hint of the old remnants. Abbas’s critique that how preservation is posited on the disappearance of the historical site is worthy of a note. Does a “place” still hold historical/cultural value

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“Waling In The City” Reading Response

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      In the extract, De Certeau frequently uses words that connote superiority, power and lust like “rhetorical” and “voyeurs” to relate human as an element in the city, to show the collective drive to “success” defined by the society. To follow the system of the society, the daily path pedestrians unconsciously walk through makes “spaces” “places” and creates “lack of space” by merely walking in the city. Even though their “existence makes up the city”, but the lack of culture makes them a merely local space, which can be compared to the clutters in a room eventually become

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[Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas]

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In the article, Abbas explores the disappearance of Hong Kong’s culture and history at a special time when politics changing. The old buildings are replaced by a new style of architecture that can fit the new environment in Hong Kong. Since the economic situation is different and the increasing number of population, the old architecture is not able to satisfy the new demand of society. Within the disappearance of old buildings, the history of the city progressively vanishes, although there are preservations, it is not in the right way. The preservations only remain the outlook of old buildings while the

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Disappearance-I have a mixed feeling towards this word.Although there is something forever disappeared from this world,something new also come to this city representing city’s development and advancement.Architecture is complicated,it is not only concrete frame and structures,it contains history,culture,memories and emotions.But helplessly and unavoidably,the fact is that this city needs spaces for development and to support surging population.Some of the historical buildings have to be dismantled. Hong Kong,having an unique and mixed culture and history background.There’s a lot of gorgeous and splendid historical buildings.Those colonial buildings are solid evidences and traces of the history of Hong Kong.Sadly,only a few of them

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Hong Kong has prided itself on its constant changing skyline as the hallmark of economic success, however it also rendered the city unrecognizable. Abba made his point that historic buildings indeed gave way to profitable buildings, our city would lose its character. I would say that Hong Kong has always been so true to reveal itself. Central has always been business hub of the city, old buildings built in the concept of Victoria City no longer exist as they served for entrepôt trade, thus modern skyscraper represents the city as financial centre. It is our nostalgic emotional attachment to the past

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[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

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Yielding readers a new vision on the city and everyday life, this masterpiece by Michel De Certeua is profound and inspiring. It is the question ‘What is everyday life’ that pivots the article when you read. First, it is about people’s interaction. People are living as a collective in the city. However graceful and glamorous a city is built, it is rendered valueless and colourless without people. It takes citizens to bring life to the city. The three operational concepts, which are the concepts that make a city ideal and vivid, unveil the importance of protecting its inhabitants by having

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Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas

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Abbas, M. A. (1997). Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance It has discussed about the different between space and place, which is space more like the x,y-coordinate on x,y-plane and place is the meaning of that coordinate. For example, HKU is located at Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, then HKU is a place and space is Hong Kong Pokfulam Road. It has also mentioned that the culture is disappearing til time to time, which because people focus on economic but not culture. Which cause our classic culture/ main culture are disappear, and that affect the design of Architecture. Also,

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  The unrecognizable city in its continue redeveloping under the economic and political incentive that the city always presented as an ‘international’ image, the ‘mixing tradition and modernity like memory and desire gives people an confusion of the city’s identity. As an ‘invisible city’ that is built on contingency, geographic and historical incidents, both local communities and architectural vernacular buildings should be preserved to contain the space inherited from the commoners or powerless every day life and colonial space not only the sense of deja vu. Rather than selection way of preservation, conservation should come to manage the pace of

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[Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas]

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Through Ackbar Abbas’ article, I have had a glimpse on the general context of nowadays Hong Kong architecture and how to understand them systematically. In Abbas’ view, the anxiety that the “Hong Kong culture”, formed in the 1980s due to economic success, will disappear after the 1997 handover. And this makes the city trying to build its own postcolonial identity and still pervaded in a space of disappearance. Apart from cultural and political factors, Abbas also finds a way to interpret such space, which I find rather accurate – representations. Abbas considers both the positive and negative representations of Hong

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[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

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The author of walking in the city mentioned that space is a practiced place for people. With the experience of walking in the city by the author, it brings out the idea of the importance of walking and experiencing the city and space. While we are walking in the streets of a city, we can see a lot of things. The buildings, cars, plants, bus stops, bridges, street lights…etc. These show the culture of a place, how the people live and how they walk. Walking in the city can also understand how people create the space, such as the roads

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