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[Reading Response 2] Migratory Cities

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I think when the cities can move, they are not ‘city’ anymore. Instead, they should be called transportation tools. There are many transportation can move people from place to place while they can work, entertain, and live on machines such as aircraft carriers, trains, airships, and rockets. Similar stories can be told by changing the ‘city’ to other carriers such as pirate ships, then the story becomes “One Piece”, stronger pirates engulf weaker pirates. The main character trying to defect the strong pirates to get treasure. In the idea of moving to a residential place, I think of the vehicle

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[Reading Response2] In Search of the Ghostly in Context : Esther M. K. Cheung

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The reading mentions the blend of reality and surrealism in Fruit Chan’s film Made In Hong Kong, which alters the audience’s sense of reality. In the movie, he defamiliarises Hong Kong and creates a “spectral city” instead. This style differs from Fruit Chan’s other films, which usually have more elements of realism. Moreover, the reading mentions Fruit Chan’s another ghostly city film “Finale in Blood”. In that film, “ghostly” is not all about including real spectres and ghosts. Instead, he uses “ghostly” as a transformative tool to defamiliarise the city, to give the film an uncanniness and uneasiness. The analysis

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[Reading Response] Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance.

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Reading respond to Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance from Abbas, M. A. This article discusses the vanishing Hong Kong culture and politics. It examines how Hong Kong’s unique urban environment and landscape disappeared due to government policies. The text analyzes how the built environment and architecture of Hong Kong reflect a sense of transience and impermanence, as the city continuously experiences demolition, redevelopment, and change. For example, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and the clock tower shows an imaginary community but works to keep the colonial subject in place, occupied with gazing at images of identity. As

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Reading response essay – L4 AR_Collage_Cuts through Hong Kong_Seng

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Everyday space as narrative   Wang Ching Jason 3036271459 Directed by Wong Kar Wei, “In the Mood for Love” portrayed the image of Hong Kong in the 1960s through looking into the protagonist’s entrapments in their own lives, seeking solace in each other’s companionship after discovering their spouses’ infidelity. The movie captures a handful of locations, each filmed in the same angle, giving the audience a circular effect experience of returning again and again to the same things. This technique isolates against fixed backgrounds, the things that are changing in the film, that is the private lives of the two

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[READING RESPONSE]The Multilevel Metropolis–XIONG Na Zona 3036260345

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Reimagining Urban Skyways: Balancing Innovation with Sustainability in City Planning The authors elucidate the frequently disregarded yet crucial impact of urban skyways on city spatial patterns. Despite their widespread use around the world, these raised walkways haven’t been closely studied enough, which leads me to reconsider the broader effects and challenges that come with using them on a large scale. The text underscores the nexus between skyways and urban space creation, noting their adoption for aggregating transportation, commercial activities, and property value. Looking forward, as we think about where city planning is headed, it seems crucial to me to think

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[READING RESPONSE] “Build It and They Will Come”: Transformation of Pudong into a Copy of the Global City

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As the passage highlights, the urban space in global cities like Shanghai caters to the needs of the elite, leading to the devaluation of the lived space of the general population. Consequently, low- and middle-income residents are forced to relocate to peripheral areas of the city. This widening gap between the different classes of city users raises concerns about social equity and inclusiveness in urban planning and development. To address these concerns, it is crucial for policymakers and urban planners to strike a balance between creating globally competitive cities and ensuring the well-being of all residents. This could involve promoting

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[Reading Response 2] Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City

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This reading had pointed out that urban condition is to represent normalcy. I do not agree about this statement. Although the image of city to many people is lethargic, because the whole environment is made of concrete and steel. Seems like it will always be the same. But, in fact, city is keep changing. In different generation, city will change into different form to satisfy the living condition of the people at that time. For example, in the 80s, we can see a lot of signage on the street as Hong Kong is experiencing an economic takeoff. People are passionate

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[Reading Response 2] Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City

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I have always been aware of the expressive power of films, with their 24 frames per second, in visually conveying emotions, ideas, and exploring various topics and issues through narratives, characters, and other cinematic elements. However, it wasn’t until I finished reading this article that I truly realized the potential for using the element of ghosts in films to represent and reflect upon social issues addressed by directors.   The article’s insightful discussion revolves around three distinct social issues depicted in films set in different cities or regions, each with its unique historical and economic background. In particular, I want

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[Reading Response 2] The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities

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Ez Kim 3036030788 I like this analogy to the machine city: for disciplinary control proceeds by distributing bodies/uses in space, allocating each individuals to a cellular partition, and creating an efficient machine out of its analytical spatial arrangement. I thought that this analogy of machine city is similar to the feeling that I got from being in Hong Kong. Poeple work in a small partition, from 9 to 6, and goes to home using MTR, which is very crowded but the trains come in a very discipline time table. People go to a very small, cellular home, and sleep and

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[READING RESPONSE] In Search of the Ghostly in Context: Esther M. K. Cheung

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Representational Space, politics, class and urban Hong Kong are featured in various movies, and a brief history of domestic public housing is probed into. Using Ghost as a movie agent not only express defamiliarization and uncanniness but introduce supernatural power that seems to be infinitely powerful in a space that belongs to powerless people (i.e. lower income groups). We witness an outburst of movies on metaphysical genre in the 70s to 90s, but its influences couldn’t be overseen. The political fear shared among community, revolving around the uncertainty and disjointed emotions raised from the future returning of sovereignty of Hong

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