Disappearing City: Payphone booths, Central Written, Directed and Edited by Cheung Wan Suet, Yvonne, 3036234401 Video link: https://youtu.be/aOsq34dxst4 Theme and Description Central district, crammed with bustling traffic and looming skyscrapers, is the heart of this metropolitan and cosmopolitan city. Everybody here is occupied and is supposed to be occupied with something, living at the fastest pace, embracing the newest changes. All the happenings in here are in an indifferent state of transience and a non-occurrence. The existing payphone is also in a state of transience, silently waiting for its impending death. In the 90s, it was at its prime

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Project Background Elevation and suspension has been core ideas of Hong Kong’s urban spaces, as the tried-and-true way for the dense, populated, hilly city to go is going ‘up’. Multitude and multi-altitude urban planning accustomed city dwellers to live their day at different pace, different direction, with the merits of encountering less congestions and fewer conflicts between brushing shoulders and stepping feet. The skyway systems created possibility for commuters to transverse from their public transport stops to work or home without any relationship to ground level. I chose the theme of Parallel City On one aspect, footbridges ensure safety and walkability

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https://youtu.be/bmT7y2gsZkc Directed & Produced by Amanda Cai   The theme that I have chosen is Information City: Hong Kong’s Shared Knowledge, focusing on Hong Kong’s MTR (Mass Transit Railway) passageways and trains. Specifically, I focus on the vast amount of information available through and regarding the MTR. On the one hand, Hong Kong MTRs are essentially a gold mine of information, from the multitude of signs denoting exits A, B, C, all the way to N or P, to the several help counters posted throughout every station, to the live signs indicating the number of minutes till the next train.

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