I have usually heard about the term “cybercity”, and the readings help me to understand more about the cybercities, which is a world that could be said as a mix of the real world and the virtual world. In this kind of world concept, the boundary between reality and virtual reality is very blurry. After reading it, to imagine ‘cybercities’ which is more abstract, I imagine myself walking in a city when I am surfing on the Internet, when I want to get what I searching for, the way I getting access to the things in just like the roads

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The reading discusses the modern machine city and cybercities. Personally, I like the modern machine city more than cybercities. Although our real world now is not a modern machine city, which is merely our imagination (Boyer, 1992), I believe that it will change to a modern machine city in the future. It is a dynamic city where all places, as the reading stated, the school, the prison, the factory and home, are controlled by machines with precise mathematics products and the creativity of engineers (Boyer, 1992). In cinematic expression, modern machine city is effective and efficient. The standardized operation of

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“In Search of the Ghostly in Context” provides interesting insights into Fruit Chan’s film “Made in Hong Kong” and its exploration of the ghostly. The use of ghostly elements in the film challenges our usual way of understanding the city and its history. What intrigues me is how the ghostly elements disrupt traditional storytelling and invite us to question our preconceived ideas about Hong Kong. By introducing supernatural elements, the film presents alternative perspectives and marginalized experiences, breaking away from dominant narratives. The idea of the ghostly representing memory and unresolved past is particularly striking. It reminds us that cities

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The article delves into the intersection of technology, urban design, and postmodernism within the context of virtual cities. It showed us that contemporary culture is saturated with manipulated signs and imagery, challenging traditional notions of artifice and reality, which are often deconstructed rather than duplicated. It also revealed the transformation from the Machine City of modernism to the Informational City of postmodernism within the context of CyberCities. This transformation displaces traditional Western spatial and temporal principles associated with the Machine City, such as roads, buildings, and machines, into the spreadsheets, matrices, and networks of the Informational City. The Informational City

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