Control City Director: Xia Kehang In the contemporary world, car ownership rates rise dramatically with the economic surge in China. Take my hometown Haining as an example, its permanent residents exceed 1.07 million according to the seventh national census. The newest data from the traffic police brigade indicates 295 thousand car ownership. These two pieces of information show that One in three people owns a car. In this situation, the parking problem becomes more and more severe. According to Driving toward Modernity, the developer sold the underground garage to the non-residents which resulted in the public parking space decreasing dramatically

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  Title: fast city Director’s name: Chiu Man Yui The theme of the video is ‘be slow in a fast city’, it reference the problem that modern people always facing: too many information. Fast city is always related to an information city, in the video, I want to show the fast information flow, and also refer to people who are too fast. In my opinion, people in the fast city always chasing information, and information always chasing people. Thus, I add a lot of information which are not concise because they all come from wiki ,and I cut the most

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  Title: Information city — Shared emotions under masks City: Hangzhou Site: Corridor Directed by: Lin Liya 3035952018   Hypothesis Theoretically, corridors are a form of the hallway that is typically narrow compared to its length and acts as a passage connecting different parts of a building. They seemed ordinary and easily overlooked in our modern city. Sometimes corridors are considered as soulless ‘between’ spaces with no particular character or functions. They separate the private and public spaces and the occupants of a building. However, a question comes to my mind: Do corridors really have no other function except for

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