{"id":712,"date":"2016-09-23T22:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=712"},"modified":"2016-09-23T22:59:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:59:56","slug":"zip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/zip\/","title":{"rendered":"ZIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Automobiles and roads are just like zippers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In contemporary cities, automobiles and roads penetrate into every corners of the cities because of speed and convenience. They are like opened zippers as the city is divided into many fragmented pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What will happen if we zip them back to be closed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The objective of this thesis is to study and create how to zip and how it affects to everything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zip or Unzip?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/prethesis_hurakan.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-714 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/prethesis_hurakan-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"prethesis_hurakan\" width=\"748\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/prethesis_hurakan-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/prethesis_hurakan-768x478.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/prethesis_hurakan-1024x637.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/prethesis_hurakan-210x131.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 Drawn by Hurakan Yeung<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere is no magic in simply removing cars from downtown, and certainly none in stressing peace, quiet, and dead space. The removal of the cars is important only because of the great opportunities it opens to make the streets work harder and to keep downtown (read: urban) activities compact and concentrated. \u2026\u2026. The whole point is to make the streets more surprising, more compact, more variegated, and busier than before-not less so.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Jane Jacobs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automobiles and roads are just like zippers. In contemporary cities, automobiles and roads penetrate into every corners of the cities because of speed and convenience. They are like opened zippers as the city is divided into many fragmented pieces. What<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[219,218,220,221,217],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}