Project Background Elevation and suspension has been core ideas of Hong Kong’s urban spaces, as the tried-and-true way for the dense, populated, hilly city to go is going ‘up’. Multitude and multi-altitude urban planning accustomed city dwellers to live their day at different pace, different direction, with the merits of encountering less congestions and fewer conflicts between brushing shoulders and stepping feet. The skyway systems created possibility for commuters to transverse from their public transport stops to work or home without any relationship to ground level. I chose the theme of Parallel City On one aspect, footbridges ensure safety and walkability

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https://youtu.be/bmT7y2gsZkc Directed & Produced by Amanda Cai   The theme that I have chosen is Information City: Hong Kong’s Shared Knowledge, focusing on Hong Kong’s MTR (Mass Transit Railway) passageways and trains. Specifically, I focus on the vast amount of information available through and regarding the MTR. On the one hand, Hong Kong MTRs are essentially a gold mine of information, from the multitude of signs denoting exits A, B, C, all the way to N or P, to the several help counters posted throughout every station, to the live signs indicating the number of minutes till the next train.

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The theme of my video is the “disappearing city”. The inspiration of this is on Ackbar Abbas’s comments on building on disappearances that Hong Kong is going through (Abbas, 1997). As its main arguments, Abbas was criticizing heavily on how quick Hong Kong changes and does not let what has been built to mature. And so, I conjectured that there are probably some places in Hong Kong where its architecture is very much distinct from its surroundings and its preservation of context had failed. The Chi Lin nunnery fit this search of mine. The name and the location it was

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Description of the theme: Hypothesis statement: Hong Kong is a hybrid city combining elements from different eras and spaces into a single image. Every time I walk through the streets of Hong Kong, I see traditional HongKong tramways and modern buses passing side by side; I see dilapidated tenement  buildings next to new modern skyscrapers; I hear the different languages the pedestrians speak on the road; I smell the flavors of regional cuisines emanating from the various national restaurants. My experiences in Hongkong streets made me feel that Hong Kong is a hybrid city combining elements from different eras and

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Lost in a hybrid city I have always been interested in museums. As they tell a story through their inner exhibitions, I thought their exterior architecture might create interesting interactions with the exhibitions. Then I questioned myself about what I wanted to discuss in the video. If I would summarize my experience in Hong Kong into one word, it would be “diversity”. That’s why I chose “hybrid” as the video topic, looking to express hybridization through Hong Kong’s museums. I researched the famous museums in Hong Kong and thought the architectural styles of the Hong Kong Museum of History are

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https://youtu.be/id6DCbSOIPE Theme and subject How would you describe Sham Shui Po? People’s initial impressions include “old buildings,” “poor people,” and “chaos.” The desolate urban environment and the people passing by on the streets gave the area its atmosphere. Unused sewing machines from Hong Kong’s light industries, which stopped and created much joblessness, are still visible in specific storefronts today. In Sham Shui Po, there are a lot of “abandoned” elderly people, much like the abandoned sewing machines of the industrial age. They stand in for all the former residents who were unable to use the prosperous industrial era to improve

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