[Field-Homework 3] Mobile City

We often find ourselves being placed in scenarios where we need to make very different decisions.  In this tug of war, different decisions may represent contradicting paths in life; it is one or the other.  Of course, in our society, there are many factors that interfere with our choices; self-doubting and second-guessing are bound to happen.  We want to choose a direction in life that includes no regrets.  That is very difficult, to begin with; even if we somehow managed to pick one direction, can we stick to it throughout our life course?     When we cannot decide on the

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[Field-Homework 3] Control City

Control City Director: Xia Kehang In the contemporary world, car ownership rates rise dramatically with the economic surge in China. Take my hometown Haining as an example, its permanent residents exceed 1.07 million according to the seventh national census. The newest data from the traffic police brigade indicates 295 thousand car ownership. These two pieces of information show that One in three people owns a car. In this situation, the parking problem becomes more and more severe. According to Driving toward Modernity, the developer sold the underground garage to the non-residents which resulted in the public parking space decreasing dramatically

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Title: [Video Essay] Slow City

Video Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA9u-HudHf8 Slow City Director: Chan Hiu Yu BGM: 不合亦不舍—夜寻双面猫 Funny Midnight Sun—Mr. Miss The Theme of the Video: Hong Kong is a fast-paced city. In Hong Kong, everyone seems to be in a hurry. Few people would associate the word ‘slow’ with Hong Kong. However, Hong Kong has had to slow down temporarily due to the rampant COVID-19. At the beginning of 2022, the fifth wave of the epidemic broke out in Hong Kong, infecting tens of thousands of people per day. Primary and secondary school students take an early summer vacation, and universities return to online class mode.

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[Field-Homework 3] Disappearing City

  Theme: Hong Kong government strives to reconstruct old areas. Tai Hang Sai Estate, is one of them. This place is chosen by me because it is actually a private house estate. It is the only form now in Hong Kong. If it disappears too, there is no such an estate in Hong Kong. These old areas are going to be disappeared soon due to the urban demand and their aging. However, these are actually places for many people to have memories with. As their daily lives must happen here. Therefore, this video essay is going to discuss how the

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[Field-Homework 3] Crisis city – Housing Estate

Crisis city – Housing Estate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGfuTjWoTa8&list=PL5PP0NHM6bT9DpggvjwrrlG26bJ50vEr0&index=1&t=86s   Since the beginning of 2020, Covid 19 pandemic has already impacted our lives for almost two and a half years. Due to its relatively high infection and death rate, countries and regions have announced various Covid policies aimed to overcome the issue that the pandemic brought. While other countries are less restricted in their covid policy, the Chinese government believes that the zero-covid policy will eventually be the answer to the current problem. Thus, when the number of positive cases started to increase in Shanghai at the end of February, a city-wide lockdown

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[Field-Homework 3] Information City: Elevator Advertisement

  Theme and Subject At the time I got the theme “elevator”, the first thing that came up to mind is the repeated advertisements shown in the elevator in the apartment I live now. the question is whether advertisements are popular in each elevator around the city and what information are they conveying? In fact, elevator advertisement has been widespread over a short period during these years, and it is a new trend of advertisement (Elevator advertising, 2022). The reason for the installation of advertisements broad in the elevator is mainly because the elevator is becoming public transportation inside high-rise

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[Video Essay] Fast city

  Title: fast city Director’s name: Chiu Man Yui The theme of the video is ‘be slow in a fast city’, it reference the problem that modern people always facing: too many information. Fast city is always related to an information city, in the video, I want to show the fast information flow, and also refer to people who are too fast. In my opinion, people in the fast city always chasing information, and information always chasing people. Thus, I add a lot of information which are not concise because they all come from wiki ,and I cut the most

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[Video Essay] Information City

  Title: Information city — Shared emotions under masks City: Hangzhou Site: Corridor Directed by: Lin Liya 3035952018   Hypothesis Theoretically, corridors are a form of the hallway that is typically narrow compared to its length and acts as a passage connecting different parts of a building. They seemed ordinary and easily overlooked in our modern city. Sometimes corridors are considered as soulless ‘between’ spaces with no particular character or functions. They separate the private and public spaces and the occupants of a building. However, a question comes to my mind: Do corridors really have no other function except for

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[Field-Homework 3] Management City

    Title: Management City Site: MTR Passage “MTR passage is a semi-public space with management.” — Initial Analysis Hong Kong is a high-rise and high-density city, facing challenge of the shortage of buildable land and pressure of the rapid urbanization rate. Therefore, underground spaces, such as MTR passage, were developed to support the city life with high-efficiency mobility, mitigating congestion and pursuing high profits. As an increasing number of people rely on the railway system, the MTR passage is a place that people frequently access, connecting the station entrance and train and crossing the paid and free area. Like

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[Video Essay]Mobile City-Malls, discover yourself

  Malls–Mobile City Be flexible and mobile in the familiar city. The world is fantastic. The world is wonderful. The world is full of the unknown, waiting for us to explore. The unexpected monster stops our journey, into the unknown, but stuck with what we already knew for a long time. During the pandemic, we spend time in the malls in our leisure time. As Mong Kok is the center and landmark of the city, my filming mainly focuses there. My video used a musical film approach. The song “Malls” is written by me. Research findings Shopping malls nowadays are

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