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Reading response: Michel de Certeau

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It was only after reading the text that I was able to differentiate “space” from “place”, with the former related to time and mobility, and the later associated with location and stability. The interchangeability between the two accentuates the important role people play in spatial practices. Our circulation and movements are vital to activate places into spaces, and in turn, spaces are transformed into places through common cultural recognitions and activities. For instance, the Sai Wan Instagram Pier was once a “place” for cargo transportation, but was transformed into a “space” when there were operations of leisure activities and creations

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This reading material talk about the different method of describe those space. For different people, they may use different method, such as “map” and “tour”. This difference is also appear in stories of journeys and actions. For the modern science side, map is always leave the “tour”, but for long time ago, the map always use the method of tour to describe a position. The “log” is also always shows, but not the route. Those are the description  in describe space and from a space to another. The operation of space always with marking out boundaries. This reading shows the

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Taking de Certeau’s insight further, space is a continuum of flowing places, an inescapable narrative. Thus every street is a book or a film, and every great city should be a great archive library. How do we read the street? By ‘practicing’ the places that constitute it, gazing at its vocabulary (vehicles, pedestrians, buildings), punctuation (signs, intersections), tone (colors, styles) are all clever ways of appreciating it, like what Perec practiced in Species of spaces. But the crucial thing is the syntax: how an elegant space is organized, just as a brilliant story is told. This brings me back to

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Place is stable, limited by the boundaries that are set by the authorities such as the government and usually be symbolised. While space is defined by the users’ experiences and movements, different users have their personal interpretation towards a space, so space is more flexible. When a movement takes place in a place, it turns into space due to the increasing spatial quality. When there is an undefined empty space, people apply different usages to it, and finally give a name to the space due to the usage, the space turns into a place. It is crucial to distinguish space

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Reading Response: Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James

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It’s worth embracing a length of critical history of the multilevel urbanisms by knowing so many talented designers and architects who have made contributions to the experiments of multilevel urban transformation. The authors introduce to us several cities which first deployed multilevel urbanism by telling the stories of some great architects. Then, they took Manhattan and Hong Kong as two specific examples of three-dimensional urban complexity. These great architects, the creators who master the tools of public policy, all had a shrewd understanding on urban economics, and this would be the reason why they are so trusted to “create” and

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Reading Response: Michel de Certeau

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After I read this book, I can understand the difference between place and space. Place refers to order based on distribution of emlements in relationships with coexistence. Therefore, place seems to be static concept. It can be found everywhere in our mundane life such as stadium. Meanwhile, a space can be explained as a practiced place. It can be created by factors of mobility. This mobility is someimtes involved in memories of the past. In other words, people give special meanings to a place. In the case of the national cemetry, it is created to commeorate people who sacrifice for

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This article illustrates and explains the difference between “spaces” and “places”, and further gives information about tours and maps. Moreover, by considering “boundaries”, gives a more precise definition of “narrate”.   A place is the order in accord with elements are distributed in relationship of coexistence, it seems like a “statical” concept, which implies an indication of stability. Inversely, space is composed of intersections of mobile elements, and it seems like a “dynamical” concept, it has thus none of the stability. Nevertheless, they are complements of each other, which means that these two concepts can constantly transform through a connection,

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Reading Response: Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James

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Yoos and James explore the evolving history of the architectural idea behind the design of pedestrian systems under distinct social, geographic, and political contexts. The skywalk is not only a tool for connecting the interior spaces in the cities for improving pedestrian convenience and managing traffic flow but also could be seen as a product of accelerating urbanization, fast-paced economic development, or used to foster social cohesion. I am particularly interested in Gruen’s idea and totally agree with what was praised by Jane Jacobs, the urban design should be ‘bottom-up,’ which focuses on society and human activities. Gruen’s vision went

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Reading Response: Michel de Certeau

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It is worth pointing out the distinguishment between Space and Place. Place is a location which is mapped by urban planners, but it may be transformed to a space due to people’s actions. For instance, people in different moods may change their behaviors, such as exploring new paths, creating a new space. In this case, I wonder about the values of planning a place adopting top-down strategies since the space users will make enormous differences on the places afterward. Is it better to leave more rooms for users to design by themselves? In addition, people’s activities may be influenced by

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Looking through the history of skyway made me reflect that such a common thing in our daily life is an avant-garde pedestrian system in the 1960s. I understand it as “socially produced and produces the social” based on Ackbar Abbas’s (2010) summary of the space. The skyway was designed to fulfill different kinds of urban city needs. From the view of city planning, this vehicle-free zone can help manage traffic while the interior connection makes people comfortable and safe. Commercially, the convenient access to multi public spaces (e.g., transit stations, shopping malls, leisure places, real estate) helps downtown economics under

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