{"id":2499,"date":"2014-08-25T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatwesee.ch\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2016-07-21T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:04:14","slug":"hong-kong-strollology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/hong-kong-strollology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong-Kong Strollology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong><em>Hong Kong Strollology: from day to dusk trough dawn; or: to walk in cities<\/em> <\/strong><br \/>\nA 43 km walk on 1st and 2nd of April 2014 \/ HD-Video 7:04min<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/104324852\" width=\"910\" height=\"512\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Hong-Kong Strollology\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I like to walk in cities. Citywalker, flaneur, stroller, observer, designer, planner, geographer, sociologue, researcher; dedicated urbanists everywhere. A variety of interesting things to see where I walk: shop windows, flowers, remaining nature, trees, animals. People: dining, drinking, talking, doing something; or the questionable urban attractions of thoughtful graffiti, provocative signs, and the eccentric behavior of certain urban denizens. Architectural details and specialities, cityplanner\u2018s and urbanist\u2018s visibly misbehaviour etc. \u2026Hong &#8220;Kong Strollology&#8221;, or, in other words, how do I deal with the evidently overwhelming task of\u00a0&#8220;Hong Kong in eight days&#8221;? Usually I get to know a city by first researching it extensively.<\/p>\n<p>I glean information from books, the Internet, and films. When I get to the city, I begin walking. I move in ever-larger concentric circles, discovering new places further and further away. I hike, I observe, I explore. Working my eye. I hunt and gather on my long, strung-out strolls through the city, building a topology of the prospected domains as I go. During my trip, I document the information, impressions, pictures, or found objects I feel are interesting, transforming them into a digestible record of the city. I lie the maps of Zurich and Hong Kong on top of one another, both at a scale of 1:15 000, mark a few common landmarks, ones which I often visit in Zurich. The parallels between Zurich and Hong Kong become clear. This conflation will serve as a great grid, a working document for my time in this foreign city. I remark that the two cities take up almost the same surface area, the only difference being that Hong Kong has 7 million people, making it about ten times denser than Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Hong Kong Strollology: from day to dusk trough dawn; or: to walk in cities A 43 km walk on 1st and 2nd of April 2014 \/ HD-Video 7:04min I like to walk in cities. Citywalker, flaneur, stroller, observer, designer, planner, geographer, sociologue, researcher; dedicated urbanists everywhere. A variety of interesting things to see where I&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/hong-kong-strollology\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/whatwesee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}