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[Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas]

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The image of Hong Kong used to be that of the only global city with both Eastern and Western features. However, with its changing relationship with the Britain and China’s rapid globalisation, Hong Kong is beginning to take on the characteristics of a generic city. As mentioned by the author, it is the “image of the city” that makes the city invisible, not legible. Hong Kong today seems to be a movie city, people use images to show the character of its past, like lanterns, old trademark and rickshaws. Hong Kong is keeping changing now, but in the same time, signs which contain

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[READING RESPONSE] ACKBAR ABBAS

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Every city is trying to build as many landmarks as they could to represent its image with a view to making the city more memorable. Yet, it leads to many Generic Cities, losing their identity, culture and history while becoming more exorbitant in reality. Why do Asian cities have the tendency to homogenization despite their cultural richness, especially for China with a long history? Perhaps Ironically, the cities are learnt through cinematic image. People are trying to recreate the characters and qualities of the city through film but at the same time, undermining the visibility of their cities. This correlates

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“If more and more people get characteristic,the world will be full of general city.”City are trying to have some tags on, Besides,I think there are also some other reasons for general city. Firstly,in today’s fast business world, “Time is money and efficiency is life.”We all pursue efficiency maximization,so if a work-well urban or building built,it will spread to everywhere quickly.And this is also not work without the second reason—-information circulates fast and nearly no fence.Thirdly,as globalization,people’s aesthetic becomes similar,too.And that is why some European architecture appear in modern China.Forthly,it is difficult to develop quickly while keeping the diversity,the various architechure

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The most impressive word in the article to me is “Generic cities”, these cities are lack of their own styles, and some people say that many asian cities belong to this type of cities, because many asian cities are fond of becoming a globalized city which erases their special forms . I do not think this view is right, we can use Hong Kong movies as an example, women who wear cheongsam is a typical symbol of Hong Kong, even though concrete jungles cover most space of the entire city. My suggestion is that Hong Kong can discover more historical

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Reading Response: Sue Harris

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It’s interesting how non-places are represented in the movie. For example, the use of peripheral urban spaces in All the President’s Men evokes physical constraint, and reinforces the overall sense of alienation. Non-places are places that are becoming more and more similar in the course of globalization, a kind of public space in which people are removed in order to achieve standardization and efficiency. Although there is a large number of people flowing in such a space, it cannot carry people’s emotions or gather people’s memories. I think it’s hard for a place to give people a sense of security

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Reading Response – Ackbar Abbas

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Abbas’ view on relationship between cinema and city is interesting that he mentioned many cities are losing their identity because of extensive creation of city’s images through landmarks, urban planners or designers tend to create and build iconic landmark to make a city remarkable and they as a creator may give a value to the design but I think “images of the city” does not come from what designers try to present while it depends on viewers’ perception and own experience. “it is invisible because it is exorbitant” lasts in my mind but I think city would not be affected

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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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In Abbas’ text, the Hong Kong films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and In the Mood for Love are used as examples to demonstrate the global identity issue of Hong Kong around 1997, the year of transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong. These films respond to the idea of Generic City by creating, forming divergent cinematic practices. Due to the development and rise of some China cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong’s position in the global community has gradually become less unique. Meanwhile, Hong Kong people’s oppositional thought towards China is quite altered, at least in the 2000s. Therefore, some old

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After reading this article, what impressed me most was the view about the lack of individuality in the city. In particular, as the article said, there is concern that so many cities are so eminently forgettable. Nowadays, the problem faced by many cities is no longer a lack of landmarks, but too many landmarks. As mentioned in the article, metropolises such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong spend a high price on constructing visual signs. Of course, we do not deny that these landmarks bring recognition to the city. However, when these cities are obsessed with pursuing these landmarks, it

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