The Escalator: A Conveyor of Hong Kong's Culture
探讨自动扶梯如何影响城市中的人际关系、社会交往和文化意义，反思现代主义思维下人与物的关系。
People believe that escalators provide a more attractive, convenient, and physically less-demanding pedestrian access from one place to another. However, it does not mean all of us have to like them. Escalators do not only affect our perception of speed, but the most important concern is that this urban object also influences our social relationships and human communication. Under the transmission of this urban object, we are treated as components (a what), rather than human beings (a who). Thus, this article discusses how modernist thinking affects how we see this object and ourselves, and examines the relative worth of it, in relation to the social loss incurred in the present or future. This article also discusses how its presence in many of the daily settings of urban life affects the culture, meaning and quality of life.