Private city – the use of stairwells Director: Jingyang Guo    Synopsis Stairwell areas metaphorically represents people’s urge towards a better life, it has also redefined the definition of public and private areas. Private areas are entirely under the users’ control, it symbolizes trust. Yet public areas are owned by the public, users’ behaviors are restricted, which illustrates the lack of trust. However, under different circumstances, public areas may become more private. Not due to trust, but due to people’s urge towards a better life. Stairwells, a compartment extends vertically through a building allows us to move between floors. However,

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  Theme: According to the Building (Planning) Regulations (2020), a basement refers to “any storey of a building below the ground storey”. Therefore, a basement can basically exist in any type of building. Yuo and Lizieri (2013) suggested that the presence of basements in malls often denotes a high-rise building, which therefore accounts for the higher degree of departmentalization in malls with basements. This explains the significance of a basement in shopping malls. As a result, I would like to focus on basements in shopping malls in this research. In the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a

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Link: https://youtu.be/STxc8lsaU58 Title: Locked City —– How’re people’s lives during a community lockdown? Site: Gawa Impression Residential Area, Beijing To fight against the pandemic, China has been implementing strict covid-zero policies. Recently, there was one positive case in our residential area, and as a result, our community was forced to be locked for two weeks or more, depending on the situation. During this lockdown, the community became a vital or the only place for residents to conduct different activities, which reflected a new lifestyle under the lockdown policy. “What is community? Why community?” —– Initial Analysis Based on different meanings of

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