Title: Hybrid City Site: Shenzhen University Credits: Director: Yuan Yitong Background information Before the COVID-19 pandemic, college students in Shenzhen had a rich extracurricular and cultural life. Their radius of activity is large enough because of the convenient urban transportation system.(Yang et al, 2020) However, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed all that. In order to ensure the safety of students, the government and schools have adopted strict control measures, such as strict closed control in schools, and extensive online courses for students. This has resulted in a smaller activity radius for college students in Shenzhen, and all activities

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  Title: Forgotten City Site: Factory site Credits: Director: Li Yuelin Description Shenyang was one of the most significant industrial cities in China. During “the first five-year plan,” Shenyang helped China’s industrial technology skyrocket and promoted China’s GDP to boom. In 1957, Liaoning had contributed 14% of China’s GDP, and Shenyang had taken up 22.7% of China’s industrial production. For all these contributions, Shenyang is called “the eldest son of the republic.” However, because of the “SOE reform” and the “industrial transformation,” most factories were abandoned and demolished, and millions of workers lost their jobs. This video is set in

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Title: Control city Given site: housing estate video link:https://youtu.be/rM8LneHHUNM The city I studied is my hometown, Chang Chun, the capital city of Jilin province in northeast China. Chang Chun has been suffering from Covid-19 since early March. Since then, the entire city has been locked down for the first time, and all residents are not allowed to go out of their housing estates. This particular situation gives me a chance to study Chang Chun during the pandemic era from the perspective of the housing estate where I am living. My housing estate was built in 2000 containing approximately 2500 residents.

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Director: Xu Shuhan Link:https://youtu.be/b1VQC2NPXS8 Theme and purposes of the research In this research, I mainly focus on the shopping mall called Mambat Plaza in my hometown—Su Zhou. There are mainly two reasons why l chose this mall as my research subject. Firstly, I always think the mall plays a very important role in the city because of its complex functions. For example, the shopping mall provides space for people to have a meal and enables people to buy some necessary goods. Therefore, the complex functions of the shopping mall will also reflect the hybrid characteristics of the city. Similar to

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    Title: management city —— empty park In the Coronavirus pandemic, doing activities in the open air seems like a luxury. Fortunately, this is a virus-free city, a city where people can still walk on the streets. But compared with the past, the busy park seems to be quieter and less cheerful. In the time period that originally   should be crowded and noisy (after the summer dinner, 18:30), the huge civil square seems lonely and empty. Is this a limitation of the city to its citizens, or it’s just a limitation of citizens to themselves? “In a city that

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