印度昌迪加尔是从平地兴建起来的新城市。 　　1951年法国建筑师勒·柯布西耶受聘负责新城市的规划工作。昌迪加尔是一座规划城市，市内街道成方格状。昌迪加尔的总体规划贯穿了勒·柯布西耶关于城市是一个有机体的规划思想，并以“人体”为象征进行城市布局结构的规划。

印度昌迪加尔是从平地兴建起来的新城市。 　　1951年法国建筑师勒·柯布西耶受聘负责新城市的规划工作。昌迪加尔是一座规划城市，市内街道成方格状。昌迪加尔的总体规划贯穿了勒·柯布西耶关于城市是一个有机体的规划思想，并以“人体”为象征进行城市布局结构的规划。

In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs’s prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of today though the lens of one of its greatest champions.

In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs’s prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of today though the lens of one of its greatest champions.

In the near future, China Tracy will build a city dubbed RMB City within Second Life. This will be the condensed incarnation of contemporary Chinese cities with most of their characteristics; a series of new Chinese fantasy realms that are highly self-contradictory, inter-permeative, laden with irony and suspicion, and extremely entertaining and pan-political. 　　China's current obsession with land development in all its intensity will be extended to Second Life. A rough hybrid of communism, socialism and capitalism, RMB City will be realized in a globalized digital sphere combining overabundant symbols of Chinese reality with cursory imaginings of the country's future. In RMB City, we will be able to cruise the digital ocean, witnessing a Ferris wheel rotating on top of the Monument to the People's Heroes; looking down from the sky on the water of the Three Gorges reservoir gushing out of the Tian'anmen rostrum; passing the giant new totem symbolizing the Oriental Pearl TV Tower of Shanghai; hopping over the Feilai Temple marooned in a raging torrent; walking across a vast, desolate state-owned factory area in Northeast China; and finally hovering over the Grand National Theatre in Beijing. Also in our view will be gigantic planes gliding over terraces in the crevices of the central business district, and aerial super-malls. We will see water flowing into huge toilets on the container piers of the Pearl River Delta area before traveling through the sewage system into an ocean with floating statues of Mao Zedong. The rusted steel structure of the Olympic Stadium aka "Bird's Nest" will be washed in splashes of ocean spray, while an aerial band on a floating sheet of the national flag filled with five-pointed stars makes a deafening noise that shakes Rem Koolhaas' CCTV building, causing it to collapse....

In the near future, China Tracy will build a city dubbed RMB City within Second Life. This will be the condensed incarnation of contemporary Chinese cities with most of their characteristics; a series of new Chinese fantasy realms that are highly self-contradictory, inter-permeative, laden with irony and suspicion, and extremely entertaining and pan-political. 　　China's current obsession with land development in all its intensity will be extended to Second Life. A rough hybrid of communism, socialism and capitalism, RMB City will be realized in a globalized digital sphere combining overabundant symbols of Chinese reality with cursory imaginings of the country's future. In RMB City, we will be able to cruise the digital ocean, witnessing a Ferris wheel rotating on top of the Monument to the People's Heroes; looking down from the sky on the water of the Three Gorges reservoir gushing out of the Tian'anmen rostrum; passing the giant new totem symbolizing the Oriental Pearl TV Tower of Shanghai; hopping over the Feilai Temple marooned in a raging torrent; walking across a vast, desolate state-owned factory area in Northeast China; and finally hovering over the Grand National Theatre in Beijing. Also in our view will be gigantic planes gliding over terraces in the crevices of the central business district, and aerial super-malls. We will see water flowing into huge toilets on the container piers of the Pearl River Delta area before traveling through the sewage system into an ocean with floating statues of Mao Zedong. The rusted steel structure of the Olympic Stadium aka "Bird's Nest" will be washed in splashes of ocean spray, while an aerial band on a floating sheet of the national flag filled with five-pointed stars makes a deafening noise that shakes Rem Koolhaas' CCTV building, causing it to collapse....

上海机器织布局俗称“老洋布局”，是近代中国最早的官督商办机器棉纺织企业。早在光绪二年（1876），李鸿章便曾派魏纶先出面筹办织布事宜，但魏无法筹集资金，所以该计划未能实现。光绪四年九月初十日，四川候补道彭汝琮呈请北洋大臣李鸿章、南洋大臣沈葆桢奏准设立上海机器织布局。几经变动，光绪六年（1880），确定由戴恒、龚寿图、郑观应、经元善等人负责筹办，郑观应任总办，开办资金五十万两，全套机器从英、美购置，拥有纱绽三万五千枚，布机五百三十台，雇工多时约四千人。光绪十三年（1887），李鸿章复派龚寿图接办。直到光绪十六年（1890）才建成投产。营业兴旺，纺纱的利润尤高。光绪十九年（1893）夏，李鸿章决定扩充纺纱，向英国增订机器。九月初十日，织布局清花间失火，全厂付之一炬。十月，李鸿章派盛宣怀会同上海海关道聂缉椝负责恢复织布局，招募新股一百万两，在织布局旧址设厂，取名“华盛纺织总厂”。

上海机器织布局俗称“老洋布局”，是近代中国最早的官督商办机器棉纺织企业。早在光绪二年（1876），李鸿章便曾派魏纶先出面筹办织布事宜，但魏无法筹集资金，所以该计划未能实现。光绪四年九月初十日，四川候补道彭汝琮呈请北洋大臣李鸿章、南洋大臣沈葆桢奏准设立上海机器织布局。几经变动，光绪六年（1880），确定由戴恒、龚寿图、郑观应、经元善等人负责筹办，郑观应任总办，开办资金五十万两，全套机器从英、美购置，拥有纱绽三万五千枚，布机五百三十台，雇工多时约四千人。光绪十三年（1887），李鸿章复派龚寿图接办。直到光绪十六年（1890）才建成投产。营业兴旺，纺纱的利润尤高。光绪十九年（1893）夏，李鸿章决定扩充纺纱，向英国增订机器。九月初十日，织布局清花间失火，全厂付之一炬。十月，李鸿章派盛宣怀会同上海海关道聂缉椝负责恢复织布局，招募新股一百万两，在织布局旧址设厂，取名“华盛纺织总厂”。

中国历代封建王朝的末年，不堪战乱的普通百姓和权力失落的前朝贵族纷纷移居海外。由于地缘上的毗邻关系，东南亚成为中国移民的迁徙地和避难所。因此这种迁徙历史上称为“下南洋”。 　　走西口是“中国近代史上最著名的三次人口迁徙”之一，从明朝中期至民国初年四百余年的历史长河中，无数山西人背井离乡，打通了中原腹地与蒙古草原的经济和文化通道，带动了北部地区的繁荣和发展。 　　民间所说的“走西口”中的“西口”就是山西省朔州市右玉县杀虎口。走出这个西口，就到了昔日由山西人包揽经商天下的归化与绥远（统称归绥）、库伦和多伦、乌里雅苏台和科布多及新疆等地区。“杀虎口”还是通往蒙古恰克图和俄罗斯等地经商的重要商道。 　　闯关东，是悲壮的历史，是一次移民壮举。存在特定的“闯关东”路线以及“闯关东”的特定背景。因此，闯关东是一种社会历史移民现象，有自发的客观因素，有内在的政治影响深度。“山东人闯关东实质上是贫苦农民在死亡线上自发的不可遏止的悲壮的谋求生存的运动。

影片通过六个章节来描述这个在1943年几乎遭到纳粹完全歼灭的塞萨洛尼基犹太群体的生活状态，以及他们所受到的威胁。过去和现在的交替构成了一个宽大的回音室，身处其间的观众将会体验到那令人惊骇的疯狂人性。