5 Stills from the video: Student name: Kwok Ka Shing 3036072762 Tse Tak Chi 3036065783   [Transcript] Talking about graffiti, what would you think of it? Probably some scrawling or, otherwise, some sketches with special styles. In Hong Kong, of course, there is graffiti. However, it is everywhere, but also nowhere. To be precise, graffiti only exists in some alleys or some iron gates outside the stores. They are not like those commercial advertisements that usually appear in our eyes, but like treasures that are probably hiding inside every alley. In this field report, we went to “Graffiti Street,” located

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Youtube Link : https://youtu.be/rs0vU0b3A0o Cheung Chun Yu 3036228385 Fung Yin Ho 3036229470 Transcript (980 words) What is the space/place/artefact/building that is vanishing? We are investigating a laundry shop in Man Wah Buildings called Fresh Laundry that is vanishing due to various reasons.      Why is it vanishing? How do we know that it will no longer exist in the near future?    Firstly, the Urban Renewal Authority has announced plans for the redevelopment of the Man Wah Buildings in the Yau Mong District Study. The laundry shop and the community it belongs to will not exist in the next ten

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Xu Yihan (UID: 3036102218) Wang Dongtong (UID: 3036099394) Video essay Youtube link: https://youtu.be/LO3K_4JWT0U Text transcript Carina: This is our video podcast of CCHU9034. I’m Xu Yihan. This is my partner Wang Dongtong. Katherine: Today we will talk about the vanishing city. These days we went to the Man Wah Building which is the filming site of the ‘Breaking News’. Carina: During the trip, we saw many buildings and facilities that have existed for a few decades, such as laundries, restaurants, and barbershops. Among all the facilities we saw, the traditional food market will be discussed as our topic. The main

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Field trip and fieldwork report Transcript Topic: A documentary photography of the gate with craved patterns in Hong Kong Wong Siu Wing 3036184204, Ma Yin Lam 3036189008 Key themes: 1) The relationship between architectures and human touch in the old Hong Kong (1950-1960) and the present  2) Street aesthetics 3) Everyday streetscape 4) Critique of nostalgia culture Video link:https://youtu.be/71oivjjJ_Hc?si=soCXdnljYN6CZfDU Mark: Today we are going to talk about the vanishing gates with craved patterns in Hong Kong through our documentary photography. We try to show the real-side of these gates, which is a crucial part of architecture to story-tell their cultural significance

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Youtube Link:   Transcript: Hello everyone, my name is Hung Hiu Yi, my name is Fung Chi Him. We are going to introduce Yau Ma Tei today, and we will introduce three places. Yau Ma Tei is one of the most iconic and lively districts in Kowloon, with many cultural treasures, historic streets, shops and foods. The first location we’d like to introduce is the “Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market,” which was established in 1913. Before 1965, the market was a wholesaler of fruits, vegetables, and fish. However, with the development of separate wholesale markets for vegetables and seafood, the

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YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/u5eONwWthoo Transcript: C= Candy V=Valerie C: “I’ve known from an early age; money is a dream. It’s a fantasy. It’s also a future” (film quote) V: Oh, it seems that you are having a hard time trying to make ends meet! C: I’m not talking from my own perspective; it is a quote from the film Little Cheung released in 1999. V: Oh yes indeed! Do you remember that we watched that movie together during the semester break? C: Yes, perhaps we should also introduce this wonderful film to our listeners. C: I am Candy. V: I am

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YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Un6zoeCbw-M Introduction Xiru: Hi, today we are going to discuss the quuetion about what will be vanished in the next ten years. We will answer the question from five parts, that is we will answer five questions. Zhuoyue: Yes, the answer is public phone booths. And we will talk about it with 6 parts. Q1 Xiru: The fist one is what is the space/place/artefact/building that is vanishing. For this answer, we discussed and we observed the surroundings near Jardine House. After the discussion and observation, we suggest that the public phone booth is actually vanishing and it may

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