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[Video Essay] Hybrid City

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Hybrid City Site: Elevator THEME Question: How to know a hybrid city from an elevator? What makes a city hybrid? From Bruno, we know the city itself is a living creature. A city’s life combines time, light, and weather. It’s a creation of human activity. Human activity can be divided into two parts: private and public, which creates a hybrid city. Walking in a hybrid city, by focusing on the boundary between private and public, we can see people’s different actions in different places. People either stay in their private space or move around in public. It is a reflection

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[Video Essay] Control City

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Title: Control City Credits: CHEN Chi Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/ZFVOUqHRYDs Theme: The video shows the Hai Men high-speed railway station under strict control during the pandemic. In February this year, Shanghai was hit by a massive outbreak. Hai Men, as a city around Shanghai, has been seriously affected. In order to effectively prevent the importation and spread of the epidemic and ensure the health and safety of residents, the Hai Men government requires that “no people leave the area and no gathering is allowed”. As a result, traffic control became very strict and began to affect people’s daily travel. The video

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[Video Essay]Control City

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Title: Control City- High Speed Rail Station Credits：Huang Shiyu Video link：https://youtu.be/pvC5e5QP_Jk   Description of the theme The video, titled “Ya ‘an High-speed Railway Station during the epidemic,” documents how Ya ‘an managed the operation of the high-speed railway station and ensured people’s safety during the epidemic. In Ya ‘an, where there is no airport, the high-speed railway station has become the most important means of transportation. People use it to travel to farther cities. Due to the remote geographical location of Ya ‘an, Ya ‘an was not seriously affected by the epidemic, but Ya ‘an still did not relax, the

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[Video Essay] Disappearing City

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Title: Disappearing City Credits: Directed and narrated by YIQUN FANG (Music: White Cloud） Storyboard & Script： The Theme of the Video: In the days of the virus, people were confined to their homes and not allowed to go out. Without human activity, a city breathes feebly, its prosperity vanishes, and its flame vanishes. Suzhou is a beautiful city, which is located in Jiangsu Province. The city was hit with a pause button by the pandemic. All recreational facilities are closed, and all restaurants are closed. Home to 13 million permanent residents, Suzhou has been under a two-month quarantine policy. Almost

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[Video Essay]Slow City

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Video footage:https://youtu.be/kQwCUiDlK6w   Theme and subject matter: Recently, the government published various policies to control the spreading of the virus while gradually forming an invisible block on people’s interactions. Hence, the video’s theme is based on shooting my living complex’s reconstructed gate during the pandemic to reflect its impacts on human life to the feature of a slow city. The theme is presented by a narrative form surrounding the gate’s complex entry procedures, including registration on personal details, visiting purpose and location, showing the individual China mainland’s health code, and testing the temperature. Also, other components such as gate’s extra

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[Video Essay] Public City

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Title: Public City- Restaurant   Credits: Directed by Wai Suet Ying Teresa   Description of the theme:   There are more than 100 Pacific Coffee and more than 150 Starbucks in Hong Kong (Pacific Coffee, n.d.; Starbucks, n.d.). We can see coffee shops almost everywhere in the city. Coffee shops serve coffee, tea, and light snacks such as bagels and pastries to customers. People may meet their friends, study, work, entertain, or just pass time there. After people buy a cup of coffee, they may sit there for a few hours. What is the meaning of a coffee shop to

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[Video Essay] Ecological City

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Youtube Video link: https://youtu.be/1UVBvGNu3nM Description of the theme and subject matter Shenzhen, originally a small fishing village, has been developing into a modern metropolis at a high speed since its reform and opening up. High-rise office buildings, shopping malls, and MTR had been constructed, covering all corners of the city. Under such circumstances, Shenzhen’s environment has not been significantly polluted. Moreover, Shenzhen was rated as one of the top 10 beautiful cities in mainland China, and the first ‘National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration City’. In order to explore the reasons behind this, I considered which site can properly reflect this

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[Video Essay]Control City

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YouTube link: https://youtu.be/9_FRGexkoUg Theme and Subject Matter: I want to show the control city through the playground in two ways. One is pandemic control. On April 7th, there were three new local confirmed COVID cases and one local asymptomatic infection in Guangzhou. Therefore, despite citywide nucleic acid testing and community closure, schools are also on lockdown because of government policy. In this case, students cannot go to school, and there is no one over the playground for weeks. The playground that used to have laughter is now deserted. Even after they can go back to school, students are forced to

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[Video Essay] Mobile City

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Title: Mobile City Youtube Video Link: https://youtu.be/5Mo7J4dnvxg Synopsis and theme The given site is ‘subway passage’, and this is a documentary-style video about the ‘mobility’ of the city by focusing on its underground tunnel amid COVID-19. The foreground of this video is the subway station called ‘Daxinggong Station’ in Nanjing, China, one of the busiest exchange stations in the city. Residents here use the subway as the main means of transportation in moving from one place to another in daily life. When the pandemic first breaks out, people have reduced their usage of the subway. But amid the crisis, the

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