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[Video Essay] Hybrid City

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Description This video presentation explores hybrid function of lobby for people across generations. The lobby is a shared space under each residence. On one hand, it is like a bridge for me or generation Z to connect with outside and privacy space. The lobby is the center of the whole apartment as it carries on the function of social connection with neighbors, security, and messaging (Wedemeyer, 1979). However, nowadays, not only do we not go through the lobby to socialize, but we go through it quickly to avoid too much contact. The situation worsened during the pandemic; we tried our

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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City

Posted on m23leung@connect.hku.hk

Disappearing City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOPOrI2EEfY Side walks are known to be the setting of the quotidian, daily experience of the urban city lifestyle. As human beings, we grow a strong sense of attachment to the surrounding environment we are so used to seeing every day. Therefore, this can symbolise a sense of topophilia and nostalgia. However, time is transient and nothing lasts forever. When we walk along the streets, we often start to notice changes that happen in our surroundings as the result of rapid urban renewable and economic development.  Various notable films that inspired me to approach the theme of nostalgia

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[Field-Homework 3] Ecological City

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  Theme and subject As a city with rapid urbanization and limited land supply, Hong Kong has been forced to intensively construct high-rise buildings with small residential units. To maximize the economic profit in the property market, the ecological elements in architecture are often neglected, as if we sometimes look at the urban residential buildings, what we see mostly are the concrete and glass panels with emotionlessness and a cold feeling. Therefore, it is hard to discover the vibrancy of the city and connect ourselves to them, no matter visually or emotionally. However, the balcony, as a visually distinctive architectural

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[Video Essay] Disappearing City

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video: https://youtu.be/Uo916_1_xh0 Disappearing City — Balcony Directed by: Hua Mingyang 3035830612 From the window of my room on the thirtieth floor, as far as the eye can see are low, old houses, densely packed as if mosaic with each other. The dense roof of the building turns into small squares, blocking the view from the outside. As a very inclusive city, Guangzhou accommodates a mobile population of over nine million people. The urban village is like a sponge that can gulp the mobile population, providing cheap housing for a mobile population of nearly five million. Since 2020, dense buildings and inadequate

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[Video Essay] Public City

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    Link: https://youtu.be/o7LOoIYvg_0 Title: Public city — Shared emotions under masks Site: Bus stops（Chengdu, Sichuan, China)   Wearing masks when walking around Wearing masks when riding Wearing masks when driving Wearing masks when waiting alone   Under the repetitive and unpredictable disaster caused by the Covid-19 virus, the public must wear masks everywhere, anytime. It’s unlikely to observe others and share emotional resonance nowadays. I can’t stop wondering: Is wearing masks COVER our face? Or COVER our feelings and life? I conduct research based on the bus stops, and they will answer my puzzle.   1.” Bus stop is

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[Video Essay] Recovery City

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Video: https://youtu.be/MtE_2MBiQTo Recovery City — Street Directed by: Yulan Shen 3035603942 Script: 2022.4.13~2022.4.19 The city experienced closed-off management due to Omicron Pandemic…… This is Zhangjiagang, a small city in Suzhou.  This is a silent city, but used to be lively and energetic.  The corona virus has changed a lot, the economy, the lifestyle and even people’s attitudes toward life. There was no activities, no passengers and no vehicles on the street, people are forced to take quarantines at homes, factories or even offices…… we were stuck in a closed space for 7 days, only allowed to go outside for the

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[Field-Homework 3] Private City – The Use of Stairwells

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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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[Field Homework 3] Public City

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For my video I chose the title “Public City” as I feel it summarizes the shopping mall accurately, as stated in my video, it is a place where people of all conditions are able to enter, it’s a place solely to satisfy the public’s consumerist needs. The main concept of my topic is navigating the mall through the lens of an old woman with camptocormia, and how despite the “publicness” and accommodation for disabled people in the mall’s architectural design, there is this feeling of loneliness that permeates her.  The title of “Public City ” is oxymoronic to the subject

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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City

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Disappearing City Director: Bai Yingxue   Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan Province is renowned as one of the eight historical capitals of China and has been called the cradle of Chinese civilization because of its rich culture, long history, and a significant contribution to Chinese culture and civilization. Nowadays, Zhengzhou, a fast-growing city, is still one of the main transportation hubs in China. The city is famous for the title “Green City of Central China” because of the characteristic tree, the chinar tree, planted on both sides of the main streets of the city (Song, 2021). Zhengzhou is a

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[Video Essay] Disappearing City

Posted on jeremy32@connect.hku.hk

Disappearing City Theme and subject During the process of urbanization, cities experienced reconstructions, and its appearance is changing in different ages. In the loop of vanishing and rebuilding, the city is disappearing from its newly-defined form. Meanwhile, another advance city is waiting to be constructed in the future. In the migration of city along the time line, something disappeared from the city, while something remains unchanged. Under the persisting circulation of city development, it is worthwhile to trace back on the disappeared components, and find the link between the existing city and the its past form. The disappearance of old

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