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[Field-Homework 3] *Floor*Building*Street—An Inclusive City

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*Floor*Building*Street—An Inclusive City Theme and Subject This video essay documents minority shops in the mid-levels of commercial or industrial buildings in Hong Kong. Apart from the spatial socioeconomic division regarding income status1, the extent of vertical segregation of Hong Kong’s business layout is also phenomenal: value is produced in illuminated high rises while a vast portion is consumed at international chains and retails near ground level. Independent shops run by highly personalized owners are sandwiched between office lights and neon signs. These stores may display fountain pens or vinyl, sell non-mainstream sports kits, offer bespoke tailoring, merchandise niche, vintage artifacts,

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Cat Links 2023 Blog, Final Video Essay

[Video Essay] Disappearing City: Public playgrounds

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URL: https://youtu.be/S9U6JCI5130   Theme: Disappearing City Site: Public playground (Central and Western District of Hong Kong Island) Theme description: Hong Kong, a city of tall buildings and high population density, has always faced the challenge of a shortage of buildable land. However, in such a city, every few streets in the Central and Western districts of Hong Kong Island have a space that is still “open” and “not dense”. Playgrounds have been created as places where kids can enjoy their right to play. Children can develop their social and physical skills through play. Children in Hong Kong, where living conditions

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[Field-Homework 3] Changing City — The Zeitgeist

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Final video-essay Student: Lam Chun Wai (UID: 3036050556) Site: 1 Canal Road East, Causeway Bay (Tong Lau) Theme: Changing city URL: https://youtu.be/ktdXR40iOQ8 Why are those who built this city unable to rest in it? The Zeitgeist The film is titled The Zeitgeist, a Hegelian term that refers to the defining spirit or mood of that particular era. The theme of the film is to prompt reflection on working poverty, a term that refers to people who work yet still live below the poverty line. This film was shot on a Tong Lau rooftop on 1 Canal Road East in Causeway

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[Field-Homework 3] Construction City- Connection between Residents and Bridges

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[Field-Homework3] ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnGo1Zemyw&t=88s Construction City- Connection between Residents and Bridges “Construction City” describes the process by which urban areas are being developed and expanded through the construction of new buildings, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure. In this theme, we are highlighting the bridges in Tsuen Wan, which they are constantly adapting to meet the needs of their inhabitants and building up the connection between different malls and estates. Tsuen Wan is the city of flyovers and the one with the most bridges in Hong Kong. Metro stations link more than 20 retail centers and housing developments. There is little doubt that Hong

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[Field-Homework 3] “How K11 MUSEA direct affects human clothing style”

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Youtube link : https://youtu.be/CD2EJ-qRjoE Title: Complex City Site: K11 MUSEA   “How K11 MUSEA direct affects human clothing style” — Initial Analysis The background of the theme topic The assigned site was initially a “mall”, later expanded upon as “Complex City”. The project explores how Hong Kong’s luxurious shopping mall affects human clothing styles and habits. It is possible that the aesthetics of a building could influence the way people dress, but this would likely depend on several factors. For example, if a building has a very formal and traditional design, people may be more likely to dress in a

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[Field-Homework 3] Hybrid City: A self Introduction from HKU main building

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Final Video Essay Youtube link: https://youtu.be/ecx-PYe84VU Title: Hybrid City （Campus Building） Part 1: The HKU Main Building is an iconic campus building that shows the architectural hybridity of HK. It is not just a physical structure but a cultural and historical symbol that embodies the hybridity of Hong Kong’s architecture. This video and essay will emphasize the colonial Gothic Revival elements of HKU’s main building and explore the influence of hybrid cultures on incorporating architectural style. The Gothic Revival style emerged in the 18th century and was brought to Hong Kong during the colonial period. It aimed to revive medieval

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[Field-Homework 3] Dissociated city——prosperity and antiquity

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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/jQube-Pdryo Theme The first half of this video consists of several bustling places or things in Hong Kong, including the crowds at Kennedy Town, the Ferris wheel in Central, a singer’s concert, LAN Kwai Fong DJ performance, the night scene on the Avenue of Stars, Disney, etc., all of which illustrate the prosperous and colorful of Hong Kong. The second half of the video, on the other hand, is shot around the Stone slabs Street (also known as Pottinger Street) in Central, Hong Kong. It is a street with a history of at least 150 years, and the name Pottinger Street is actually named after

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Cat Links Lecture 7: Monsters, Materials & Skyscrapers

Reading Response: Abbas

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Engaging in the design of architecture I always believe that architecture is timeless. They exist in different eras in the same form but with different roles. The author mentioned that preservation is selective and tends to exclude the dirt and pain. So is there any way preservation can include memory? Izosaki and Asada’s typology separates architecture into real, surreal, and hyper-realistic architecture. Only those that have preserved their historical contexts are real, which means real architecture only exists in the rather old areas where the buildings still serve the same function as when it was built. (because urban hybridized areas

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Reading Response: William M. Tsutsui

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For a country that birthed its modern society by the rise and re-form from Western colonialist invasion, the Meiji era is the prologue and also the synopsis of contemporary Japan: constituting strength through struggle. Humanity’s salvation through damnation in Japan’s apocalyptic imaginary — one I would call as ‘downtown in distress’ — is exhibitive yet therapeutic, particularly for its post-war consumers, as cataclysms are detonated and thus desensitised at a secure imaginative distance. Few nations have a history of vulnerability and a culture of anxiety imprinted so profoundly like Japan does, hence “doom-laden dream” is able to act as a

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Reading Response: Abbas, M. A. & Tsutsui W.M.

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The title of this article shows up to suggest Japan’s current circumstance. Utilizing a grave and wild eyed tone, the maker passes on how the country is encountering a crisis as its city has been destroyed by a mental aggressor ambush. As the visual culture, the animal film can totally reflect Japan’s traumatic history, particularly the two atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In these motion pictures, the animals start off with less puzzling focuses of intrigued but gotten to be more characterized as the plot spreads out. The term “secure horror” is utilized to depict how the gathering of individuals is able to come across a certain level of frightfulness though watching these motion pictures, but in the long run the frightfulness is brought underneath control and pulverized. These movement pictures can as well serve as a source of reassurance for Japanese individuals, appearing that inside the event of an attack, their country has the capacity to bring the circumstance underneath control. Hong Kong building in addition has various characteristics. Hong Kong building remains the British fashion and

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