Category: 2023 Blog

Cat Links 2024 Blog, Lecture 8: Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response 2] The Imaginary Real World of Cyber-Cities

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I believe that both Machine Cities and CyberCities have emerged to create technologically advanced and connected urban environments. I will discuss how they affect people’s lives mainly from my perspective and personal experience. As the architectural space of the Machine City can accommodate and integrate advanced intelligent transportation technologies, I think this will improve our daily lives to a great extent. For example, I often suffer from traffic congestion, which negatively affects both my mood and efficiency. When urban space can accommodate an efficient traffic management system, our time can be saved. Also, reducing traffic congestion can reduce automobile emissions, which

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Cat Links Lecture 9: Global Space, Time & Architecture

[Mood Board] “Circled City” by Cheung Chun Yu

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Using different circle shapes elements in the city to document the life of people. I want to find different circle shaped things in Man Wah district as the topic, Using this specific shapes of things to represent the  daily life of human. I think something like circular architecture structure, candy, traffic light may appear in the video.  Circle is one of the most typical shapes for designing things used in daily lives.     3036228385 Cheung Chun Yu    

Cat Links Lecture 6 Housing Stories, Lecture 6: Housing Stories, Lecture 6: Housing Stories

Moving House (2001)

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“After development comes redevelopment” as a way of life where the dead people are also affected to be moved is sad. Tradition cannot be maintained because of the government planning of lands; the dead parents “moving” from a larger “house” to a smaller “house” which is the columbarium. The exhumation exercises that are shown in the video is is uncanny and creepy, and let us know how a dense city means the cityscape and way of living is ever changing and full of uncertainty. -3036237831

Cat Links Lecture 6: Housing Stories

Moving House Reflection – HAW Jane

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As the population of Singapore grows, gaining an ownership of a grave will be more difficult. Families of the deceased would be forced to relocate the remains somewhere else. Some might be unsatisfied with this as they think the land used for leisure purposes can be used for the dead, but other may think that relocating the dead near their loved ones is fortunate

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Lecture 6 Exercise – Reflection (Anvesha Bajpai)

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The switching between the older black and white clip of the new Singaporean Housing complex – which showcased the building – and the switching to the modern-day look of the complex, which looked old and run down, created an eerie feeling surrounding old ideas that were once considered revolutionary, becoming outdated and irrelevant to modern day problems. To strengthen this feeling, the director used contrasting sounds. During the old video, the non-diegetic sound consisted of orchestral music which created a sense of accomplishment surrounding the housing complex. In contrast, the modern-day footage consisted of diegetic of cars and other city

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[FIELDWORK REPORT] Dohyun Kim & Ez Kim

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Dohyun Kim:3036192536  Ez Kim:3036030788 Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYx5DTLCbZM Transcript:  Hello everyone and welcome to our video podcast! We are Dohyun Kim and EZ Kim from the University of Hong Kong. Okay so we’re going to dive right into our topic for today: vanishing neon signs. Let’s turn it over to Ez who’s broadcasting live outside. Part 1: What are Neon Signs? E: Wow, it’s so nice to be here. We are currently on Shanghai street at night time. The city is so vibrant, maybe it’s because of the vibrant atmosphere created by the neon signs.  I feel like Neon lighting mainly

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Cat Links 2023 Blog, Everyday Spaces as Narrative

[Reading Response] Cuts Through Hong Kong, Seng, E. (2021)

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3036237831 Wong Chun Fung “Cuts through Hong Kong” uses Wong Kar Wai’s film “In the Mood for Love.” as a springboard to explore the theme of change and inevitability of the transient cityscape of Hong Kong in the 1960s and brings out the idea that our landscapes can be preserved through films. This reading depicts the transition of Hong Kong in the past, when it was a British colony. The film captures the mood of Hong Kong in the 60s, where “private spaces felt like public spaces” with the intimate relationships between one and other that will be gone soon

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[Reading Response] Noirs: The City, the Woman and Other Spaces

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The most impressive prospective for me about this article was the discussion of distinctive style of female characters in films set in the social context of Hong Kong during the 1960s. One shocking fact mentioned is that as early as 1962, influenced by James Bond, the Hong Kong noir thriller was already dominated by female protagonists, far before the emergence of similar films in Hollywood, USA. It has been my belief that such topics as female character dominance related to gender equality or affirmative action in films first appeared in the western film world led by Europe and the United

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