Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

[Reading Response] Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James

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When I first saw the phrase, ‘pedestrian systems’, in The Multilevel Metropolis, I thought of Hong Kong. Hong Kong has developed a mature pedestrian system that really shocked me when I first came to Hong Kong. As a newcomer who used to live in a place with bicycles and motorcycles all around, I wondered why there was no bicycle lane until I saw numerous footbridges. Just like what Jennifer and Vincent said, this sophisticated pedestrian system was developed on-demand. The walkways which are constructed according to changing circumstances connect people’s flats to their work places, making their life much more

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2021 Blog, Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

[READING RESPONSE] Yoos, J. and V. James.

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I was interested in Yoos and James’ interpretation of and “urbanism” of HK by its growing population. As they explained pedestrian systems as “thickening”, I immediately thought up of “elevations”. I think HK has preserved the old, yet developed cities, reacting to the vastly growing population in the most efficient way. The most well-known reaction for this could be the escalators, footbridges, stairs in the middle of the roads: “on-demand planning”. Sometimes, as a foreigner, I would think, why would they have so many footbridges and escalators in HK? But now to think of it, that means HK has such

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