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[Field-Homework 3] [Video Essay]Apartment Quarantine City

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Apartment Quarantine City To investigate how the COVID-19 epidemic affect the apartment set up. For example, more mask, alcohol pad and alcohol hand rub appear in everyone apartment.   Script Ah finally wake up. Haven’t hang out for a while because of the COVID-19. Such a good day, maybe just hang out for a while.   Oh, my leg numbness.   Oh, is run out of hand wash. I will just buy it on the way.   New cloth is needed since every time the cloth will be contaminated when we go out.   Na, no alcohol pad is needed

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[Video Essay] Subdivided City

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Title: [Field-Homwork]Subdivided City Director:Huang Xin 3035771294 Theme and Subject matter The alleyways are spaces that are hidden inside or buildings. Such short and narrow worlds are not easy to notice. Apart from those well-known apartments in Hong Kong, alleyways also reflect the subdivided feature of Hong Kong. It divided a small block into different parts, and it exists as a hidden world in the block. Inside the alleyways, Hong Kong is not as international and developed as it looks like from the outside since it is incredibly crowded and filled with wasted oil and garbage. What’s more, under the pandemic,

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[Video Essay] Clean City

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Hypothesis: Concerns regarding the spread of coronavirus through feces have led to improvement in Hong Kong public toilets’ hygiene conditions. Synopsis: Theme and subject matter Hong Kong attracts thousands of tourists daily and with citizens travelling all around the city for work, hundreds of people rely on public toilets around the city. Due to the pandemic, the views on public toilets divide many people. Some people expect them to be cleaner and more hygienic due to the context of Covid-19, while some people prefer to avoid them as they are a hotbed for the virus. Due to the virus, the

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[Field-Homework3] Private City

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Public Toilet- How privacy coexist with public   Theme description: The public toilet is special among the public places, which is actually an extension of private space. It enquires the city to consider how to share a place which should have been private. I use the topic “private city” to make a contrast with “public toilet.” Beck (2016) stated that many people still suffer some degree of anxiety about going to the bathroom. In fact, openness and privacy create an unpleasant conflict in the toilet. Our unique behavior stems from a complex feeling of shame, self-awareness, imagination, and gender roles.

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Cat Links Lecture 9 Global Spaces, Time & Architecture

Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas

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Hong Kong is gradually becoming a generic city which refers to the city free of any history and characteristics. The generic city is actually the final product of modernism and science, which kind of are the antithesis of history and identity. From my perspective, for this phenomenon, the merits outweigh the defects. The citizens can confer and add many features to their city freely instead of worrying about destroying the old characteristics, just like decorating a total new house without any limitations. Also, this concept reminds me of a line from the movie The Young and Prodigious Spivet, “Every millimeter

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In this tutorial and reading, we mainly focus on the generic city. In this day and age, globalization is the catalyst of culture exchange. Causing the development of most of the cities become similar. Every city like Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong design images of themselves to boost the tourist trade. As the special landmarks or the images can help them become unique and special among the other cities. However, these special icons being nonspecial since there are too many landmarks among the worlds. What is worse, this running to a dull point. Every city pays a huge amount of

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[READING RESPONSE] Ackbar Abbas

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In a globalized urban setting, more and more Generic cities appear to be in conformity around the world. They are blank concrete jungles that loss of cultural context, significance, and identity, or “absence of character”, as mentioned by the author. Therefore, we use logos and images to preserve and promote the city’s values. I agree that film is polychronic and polychromatic, which allows infinite imaginations and explorations. Ironically, it may bring confusion and delusion of a real city because of its high authenticity. When people just learn cities through images and films, certain stereotypes will be created as a result

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Reading Response: Walter Benjamin

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Reading this article is a tough time for me, a student who have little reading literary and artistic works experience. the article is full of some professional terms that i do not understand. However, there is still some point that I can share.   In the reading, Benjamin suggests that the technological reproduction may change the way that the art develop, and the historical value will be devalued. It is because with nowadays technology, reproduce the historical artifacts are easy. These will be causing the original cultural relics lose their uniqueness. It is the point that we cannot deny. However,

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Cat Links Lecture 9 Global Spaces, Time & Architecture

[Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas]

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I think HK embodies the characteristics of a Generic City to a certain degree. Especially the buildings which were built more recently. The older ones make Hong Kong less generic, more identifiable among all the cities like Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai. Central may be the most famous region in Hong Kong and I think it is very representative of HK. In Central, you can see the iconic skyscrapers that are also the heart of the financial and economic activities of this city. White collars commute to their offices and the nationality of the workers are also one of the most diverse

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[READING RESPONSE] Ackbar Abbas

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The most mentioned item in this chapter is “the Generic City”. So, we readers can’t help asking the same question– what is exactly a “Generic City”? But, what is fun is that the characteristic of this kind of new city is “no characteristic”. To be more precisely, “the Generic City” is, to some extent, a kind of homogenization, an abnormal form of over-modernization. Nowadays, cities are increasingly filled with numerous postmodernist styles. It’s excessive features that make an exorbitant city “invisible”, not legible. This notion reminds me of Shenzhen, a Chinese city we are all familiar with. When I travelled

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