This reading material talk about the different method of describe those space. For different people, they may use different method, such as “map” and “tour”. This difference is also appear in stories of journeys and actions. For the modern science side, map is always leave the “tour”, but for long time ago, the map always use the method of tour to describe a position. The “log” is also always shows, but not the route. Those are the description  in describe space and from a space to another. The operation of space always with marking out boundaries. This reading shows the

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Place is stable, limited by the boundaries that are set by the authorities such as the government and usually be symbolised. While space is defined by the users’ experiences and movements, different users have their personal interpretation towards a space, so space is more flexible. When a movement takes place in a place, it turns into space due to the increasing spatial quality. When there is an undefined empty space, people apply different usages to it, and finally give a name to the space due to the usage, the space turns into a place. It is crucial to distinguish space

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Looking through the history of skyway made me reflect that such a common thing in our daily life is an avant-garde pedestrian system in the 1960s. I understand it as “socially produced and produces the social” based on Ackbar Abbas’s (2010) summary of the space. The skyway was designed to fulfill different kinds of urban city needs. From the view of city planning, this vehicle-free zone can help manage traffic while the interior connection makes people comfortable and safe. Commercially, the convenient access to multi public spaces (e.g., transit stations, shopping malls, leisure places, real estate) helps downtown economics under

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“Ever story is a travel story- a spatial practice.” If architecture is what turns a place into a space through designs and physical structures, then the people inside it is what gives the space its story and meanings. Thereupon, maps display simple directions of a city as a whole in an objective manner; while movies are like tours that bring viewers on a journey to view the details of a series of spaces. As the plot draws viewers to immerse themselves into the distinct spatial experience, the originally ordinary place is then subjected to their own perception and sensory, hence

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