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Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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In Abbott’s interpretation of migratory cities, unlike how cities are in real life and viewed as a static entities, in-universe such as in science fiction, it is very mobile. It could travel move and rotate in all kinds of ways and forms, which the train in snowpiercer resembles, as while the space itself is static, the location is constantly on the move. This concept of the migratory or mobile city is actually more present in reality than expected. While it is not as cybernetic or has fancy visuals (cg) in real life, with constant movement from people from different backgrounds

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[Reading Response] Ackbar Abbas

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Abbas gave us a perspective to see the disappearance of cities’ identity, that the hyperlegibility of the city is precisely what makes it invisible. The generic city is created in this way, being complex with anomalies but without unique qualities. As hyperlegible golos reduce the city to a single icon among many similar icons and the city’s image being dulled, the city may consider constructing the landscape in a “glocalized” way rather than paying for foreign star architects and the image of the city in their eyes (which is often out of date). The mean of attracting tourists can as

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[Reading Response] Ackbar Abbas

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I agree with Abbas. The image of our city is crafted by money instead of the city itself, and it presents an absents of characters because they are designed for a “brand” or an icon instead of showing the real side of the city. It makes the city invisible to the people. At the same time, I think that it is also hard to argue whether it represents Hong Kong, all those Generic City images may be intentional, globalization and internet leading us from difference to similarity. For me, the image of Hong Kong crafted by the government shows the

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[Reading Response] Ackbar Abbas

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Cities are trying to boost their tourist trade by using branding strategies that make them more unforgettable and attractive, but they are one of the reasons for cities becoming “Generic Cities”. Cities would spend millions of dollars to build up their brand, which cost them their uniqueness, like their culture, their history, or their identity. This can be reflected through the generic cities’ representations in cinematic images. For example, in Hollywood films, most cities in Asia are now seen and represented as rich cities. I have discovered that in different films or television shows when people mention Hong Kong or

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Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas

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by Matsumoto Ami 3035831305 The Global Cities: Cinema, architecture and urbanism in a digital age by Abbas, a great example of using an interdisciplinary approach including films to dissect and analyse the phenomenon of global cities. The author picked the famous film in each majority urban city including Hong Kong to examine how globalization may affect our physiological and physical urban experience. Using films as an entry point is a wise choice since the architecture is a storyboard that keeps changing over the years and the film is the expression of the director’s understanding that captures the momentary setting.  Referring

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[Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas]

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“If more and more people get characteristic,the world will be full of general city.”City are trying to have some tags on, Besides,I think there are also some other reasons for general city. Firstly,in today’s fast business world, “Time is money and efficiency is life.”We all pursue efficiency maximization,so if a work-well urban or building built,it will spread to everywhere quickly.And this is also not work without the second reason—-information circulates fast and nearly no fence.Thirdly,as globalization,people’s aesthetic becomes similar,too.And that is why some European architecture appear in modern China.Forthly,it is difficult to develop quickly while keeping the diversity,the various architechure

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Reading Response – Ackbar Abbas

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Abbas’ view on relationship between cinema and city is interesting that he mentioned many cities are losing their identity because of extensive creation of city’s images through landmarks, urban planners or designers tend to create and build iconic landmark to make a city remarkable and they as a creator may give a value to the design but I think “images of the city” does not come from what designers try to present while it depends on viewers’ perception and own experience. “it is invisible because it is exorbitant” lasts in my mind but I think city would not be affected

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Reading Response: Ackbar Abbas

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Fang wenbo UID:3035789253 In this tutorial, we discussed about generic city. I think this is a difficult concept. I and my group mates discussed the relationship between the movie “In the mood for love” and Generic city. I though this movie had a close relationship with generic city. Because it use a kind of special camera language that only capture close image and scene. This kind of shooting approach blurred the identifies of specific city. we can’t see the whole building in the movie and neither the city views. Besides, those close lenses reinforces the emotional connection between people, especially,

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Reading response: Ackbar Abbas

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Abbas suggested invisible cities and generic cities in the reading and I found generic cities relatable.Generic city is a city that keeps changing rapidly and there is no fixation of identity. These cities are usually located in Asia and Hong Kong ,the hometown of mine is one of those generic cities . Hong Kong is colonised by England for almost a decade, it is a hybrid of west and east culture and the architecture in Hong Kong reflects that .As time goes on, with the change in sovereignty , Hong Kong keeps transforming as its history is erased and rewrite

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Upon reflection, the reading is an exceptionally well-articulated piece regarding the two-way relationship between cities and cinema. On the one hand, it is not only a manifestation of the urban experience but also adds elements of instability and evokes imagery of the city that are unpredictable. I believe this particularly holds true as the richness and condensed nature of films means to a certain extent it must hone it on “landmarks” or focal points that the audience is able to relate to, and at the same time draw attention to, for instance, the underlying social tensions that the audience has

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