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[Video Essay] Disappearing City

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Title: Disappearing City Site: Changsha Hisense Mall Synopsis The shopping mall is a representative scene of daily life, from which we can see people’s lifestyles and the characteristics of a city. I choose a special shopping mall, Changsha Hisense Mall, as the site for my fieldwork. The mall can be separated into two parts, one part is the ordinary modern shopping mall, and the other part is Changsha Wenheyou. Changsha Wenheyou has 7 floors, covering an area of 20,000 square meters. The decoration here is all designed in accordance with the style of the 1980s and 1990s. And it restores

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[Video Essay] Information City

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link:https://youtu.be/q4lZ5PykKos This video and essay focused on specific cite lobby, in Yichang, Hubei province, to reflect that the city Yichang is full of information and its own beauty. Me, Zhekai Zhang, as the director, wants to thank my friends who gave me the chance to research these different lobbies in the communities at this specific pandemic period, and some of them even joined in the filming process. At the start of the video there is a list including this part. In every city, there are many communities that people live in, and most of the communities have a lobby, where

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[Video Essay] Hybrid City, Shenyang Imperial Palace

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 Hybrid City; Directed by Lu Liyu, 2022. Shenyang Imperial Palace, Dadong District, Shenyang Link: https://youtu.be/jP-R1HQMSME Because of the epidemic, most of spring is spent at home. I went out in search of green once the community was unblocked, hoping to catch the last end of spring. On my trip to the Imperial Palace, I came across a different sort of green by chance. This unique colour from the Imperial Palace’s roof reminded me of spring. Then, I want to interpret my topic – “rooftop” with the most historical and architectural building in my city. Shenyang Imperial Palace, also known as Shengjing

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[Field-Homework 3] Human City

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The Video: Directed by Hung Chi Hang Cast: Markus Wong as Human We, as human beings, experience the city in a very unique way. With modernisation architecture, we utilise space through urbanising the natural environment, resulting in serious impact on the ecosystem. The theme of “Human City” is to reveal the brutality of humans on nature and other species that live together with us. From mass industrialisation to animal violence, even though humans are the most intelligent and cognitive beings on Earth, the ultimate goal of civilisation should be living with nature instead of replacing it with our own territories.

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[Video Essay] Slow City

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Slow City  – Parks We tend to think of an aging society as slow or at odds with the times. Especially in a “fast” city like Hong Kong, people are immersed in a day-to-day cycle. An aging community like Sham Shui Po is increasingly out of tune with the city. In this video, I filmed in the park downstairs from my house, trying to discover the people and things in this “slow” park in the corner of Sham Shui Po. As you can see in the video, the people in the park are mainly middle-aged and elderly people. They tend

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[Video Essay] Walking City (Sidewalk)

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URL: https://youtu.be/loxNQMupX0Q BGM: Joker OST- Call Me Joker What is sidewalk? Filming this video, I asked myself for the definition of sidewalk, despite walking for my entire life. I, in this final essay, am searching for a meaning and purpose to walk on a specific path in a city when walkability is highly prioritised in the degree of livability of the city. In my opinion, sidewalk is part of the city, and city is a mixture of many sidewalks. In another word, city is a sprawling form of sidewalk. Is sidewalk a bounded space? Further to the question of walkability

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Field -Homework3 Management city

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Lin Yuxin(3035854321) The foyer always shows the first impression of a place because the first inner part people reach of a place is the foyer, the general style of the foyer can be representative of the whole area. As a card of a place, foyers always represent the general vibe of the environment. In this case, many managers of the place would create a peaceful and warm atmosphere through friendly interaction, such as greeting. However, since the covid-19 has started, the restriction on entering and exiting has become quite strict. A new system of inspection was set in every foyer

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[Video Essay] Voyeurism by Architecture in Film

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  The most impressive content of the field trip is voyeurism. This is because I personally think voyeurism is an original feature that only buildings can have. In this lecture, we learn about architecture and how buildings work in movies as a whole. These architectural elements play various roles. There is a role such as improving immersion by communicating the background of the play more realistically to the reader. However, I think the role of improving immersion can be brought up in elements of movies other than architecture. Thus I thought about the original role that only architecture brings, and

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[Video Essay] Hybrid City

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Assigned site: Elevator Theme: How elevator connects different parts of a hybrid city? Director: Zhang Binyue     My assigned site is Elevator. I shot this video in my hometown Chong Qing, a municipality in mainland China. Chongqing is the only municipality in central and western China. Because of its location, it is not a relatively high developed municipality. It ranked 15th in the country for GDP in 2019.   The place represented in the video is Building 1, Phase 3, Xiduhui, Xi Street. It is located near Chong Qing University and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. It is a typical

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