Category: 2020 Spring

Cat Links Lecture 8 Sci-fi Technoscapes

Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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From the reading “imagining urban futures” by Carl Abbott, one of his ideas that impressed me the most is how he defines a “city”. One of the special examples he mentioned in the text is the armada. In his definition, armada is also defined as a city. This concept is thought-provoking to me, initiating my thoughts on what a city means to me. In my option, as long as a place can form a community, it can be defined as a city, which shares a similar concept with the writer, suggested that the armada involved the connection and tying up

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Cat Links Lecture 8 Sci-fi Technoscapes

Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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Fang Wenbo UID: 3035789253 In the tutorial, we discuss the interesting future city in the reading. I want to share my view on the class, but time is so limited. I wasn’t able to share my point. About those sci-fi cities in the reading, I think the one on page 366 “city in train’ is very interesting. Although it seems unrealistic at first glance, It is astonishingly similar to our real world. The train city protects people from the terrible weather outside, just like the city that we live in protecting us from the wild environment. It provides us more

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Cat Links Lecture 8 Sci-fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response: Carl Abbott OR M. Christine Boyer]

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By reading these 2 articles, the second one catches my eyes, as it mentions the real world of cyber cities. I think it gave a great insight into the world’s development where all cities are starting to build like imaginary cities or what they call Sci-Fi cities. When we watch Sci-Fi movies before we never thought that this would come true where there are flying transportations and teleporters everywhere in the cities. Also, the city itself looked very fictional, but then now this essay gave me a feel where this might actually come true as the technology development is on

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Cat Links 2021 Blog, Lecture 7 Monsters, Materials & Skyscrapers, Monsters, Materials + Skyscrapers

[Reading Response: TSUTSUI W.M]

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In “Oh No There Goes Tokyo”, Tsutsui W.M mentions that in the years since World War II fictional apocalypse has been visited upon Tokyo more frequently than any location on the globe. He claims that in the “Doom laden dreams “of Japanese popular culture, Tokyo has fallen victim to, earthquakes, floods, fire cyclonic winds, alien invasions, giant monsters and robots. These fictional apocalypses are usually understood by audiences as a result of humiliation and persisting traumas from the second world war. It is true that the bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki have engraved wounds on the Japanese minds that would take

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Cat Links Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

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In the article, De Certeau M mainly discussed the relationship and difference between “space” and “place.” A place is “an instantaneous configuration of positions” with an indication of stability. But, space only exists when there are composed of intersections of mobile elements, like a party that is full of people, a lecture that is full of students, and a famous site that is full of visitors.  From my perspective, “place” is cold-blooded. It is an indication of position. It has no other deeper meaning. However, people can feel more in the word “space”, since a place is not equal to space, only

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Cat Links Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event, Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

[Reading Response: Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James]

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There is no doubt that when the city grows to no land available, asking for space from the sky becomes a good way. At the same time, we also should prevent excessive modernism which will turn the infrastructure into cold, isolated junk space. The more people are used to shuttling between the tunnel overpass buildings, the more eager they are to contact with nature. When I was in high school,there was a 30 minutes way from school to home, however,even a glimpse of the blue sky became an extravagant hope. Various facilities sheltered us from the wind and rain, but

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Cat Links 2020 Spring, Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

[READING RESPONSE : Michel de Certeau ]

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Spaces and places both mean the locations, the place has higher stability, and the space can bear the action conducted by humans, which has higher dynamics. In other words, places are more likely to stills, and spaces are more likely to movies. Take the park as an example, there are children playing, elderly people practicing Tai chi and friends chatting. For participants, the park is a space for them to relax, but for the people at the next hood to the park, it’s just a place. For tours and maps, the tour is telling you how to do it, and

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Cat Links 2021 Blog, Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

Reading response :Reading Response: Michel de Certeau

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In lecture 5, the main idea of the article ” spatial stories ” is to discuss the relationship and the differences between “space and place” & “map and tour”.  Before reading the article, I thought that space and place are the same things, but Michel de Certeau who is the writer of the article has defined a new definition for space and place. He thinks that a place is a location without any meaning while space is a place where meaningful. Therefore, the definition of space is different to everyone, since the definition of meaningful places is different to everyone. 

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Cat Links 2021 Blog, Field Homework 1 Everyday Spaces as Narrative

[FIELDWORK]TRANSFORMER: AGE OF EXTINCTION, MONSTER BUILDING

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TRANSFORMER: AGE OF EXTINCTION, DIR MICHAEL BAY(2014) Monster Building, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong     Transformer is a well-known movie around the world, and it has a few episodes of the movie. The main idea of the movie is that there are two factions, the Autobots and the evil Decepticons. They come to earth from other planets and they want to get a cubic with ultimate power which is held by a teenager call Sam Witwicky. In the fourth movie of Transformer- Transformer: Age of Extinction, there are some fighting scenes in the movie which is setting in Hong Kong.

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Cat Links Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event, Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

Reading Response: Michel de Certeau

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Two main concepts discussed in the article are place and space. Different interactions of human beings with place produce different spaces, and basically, most spaces are produced in the itinerary. I have one deep impression of the scene in Chungking Express that the main heroine passed the one she loves on an electronic escalator in opposite direction. She turned her head back and stare at the man who even didn’t notice her presence. This scene really impacts me due to the deep love of the main heroine and the huge crevice lie between them. Now I could see how place

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