City Complexity
Images of Hong Kong Culture and Space in Movies
Y. Huang (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
E. Jafari – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / A)
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Abstract
Hong Kong is full of complexities in its culture and space, showing in the movies. The clear imageability allows it presents itself through city structures, landmarks, and architectural objects in the city, playing a vital role for people to recognize and be impressed. In addition to the spatial aspect, the cultural complexities undoubtedly affect the daily life of Hong Kong people and further reflect on the living space, meaning the city. The relationship between culture and space is intimate, creating vivid and dynamic images of the city. As the city image changes rapidly today, the cinematic image provides a way to capture the dynamic and fluid cityscape. The “city complexity – cinematic image” discussion is significant in the thesis, emphasizing the relationship between the city and cinematic image and showing how the cinematic images picture Hong Kong’s complexities. To understand the images that Hong Kong presents, it introduces several movies and analyzes the images from them, from the 1990s, transitional Hong Kong to further projecting the future. The cinematic images give an observation of living in Hong Kong and frame a broad picture of Hong Kong city space and its culture, providing another way to research city space.