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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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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Title: Linked City Director: LI XIANG The Theme Of The Video Italian cartoonist Makkox said, ” balconies were the first social media.” A balcony is a part of a private space lying between the inner space of your house and the public area of the city. The balcony weakens the boundaries between private and public. In this video, I mainly focus on the function of the balcony in connecting personal space and public space and how it provides a new social contact method in the post-pandemic era. The main logical flow of choosing the places is from a single person’s

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http://S9VmAoel5KQhttps://youtu.be/S9VmAoel5KQ The main theme of my video is to show the relationship between the café and the modern city. In a city, life is represented by a fast pace, however, the coffee shop is the opposite exists, the slow part. This video focuses on the cafe as a point of reference for the theme of the slow city. Asian cities have grown rapidly in recent decades, and China’s cities are among the fastest-growing. Unlike in the West, coffee culture has only become popular in China in recent years as the country has become more urbanized. This rapid development has caused

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