A Disappearing City The pier – where I came from, and where the city came from. However, in this rapidly developing city, this slow and ancient transportation and way of life are almost going to be replaced or even eliminated. It is not just the piers that are disappearing, it is also the city, and where I came from. Influenced by the famous philosophical proposition, I also ask myself from time to time: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? Obviously, there is no practical answer to this question, but at some point, I

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video: https://youtu.be/qMe5e_iYhhs   Private City — Living Rooms (Apartment) Privacy is the ability to control who you see, when you see them and what others know about you (Marsden et al., 2001). In any city, living room is the most private social place for most of us to develop relationships with those important people in life. Do people no longer need a living room in apartments? The concept of “disappearing living room” seems very popular nowadays since city life doesn’t leave much room for people to experience a living room. Eating, sleeping, and going to work, people have little time

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video: https://youtu.be/Uo916_1_xh0 Disappearing City — Balcony Directed by: Hua Mingyang 3035830612 From the window of my room on the thirtieth floor, as far as the eye can see are low, old houses, densely packed as if mosaic with each other. The dense roof of the building turns into small squares, blocking the view from the outside. As a very inclusive city, Guangzhou accommodates a mobile population of over nine million people. The urban village is like a sponge that can gulp the mobile population, providing cheap housing for a mobile population of nearly five million. Since 2020, dense buildings and inadequate

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