Carl Abbot discusses the possibility of migratory cities in the future. He has classified migratory cities into three types: distributed cities, hunter-gatherers, cities riding the rail. These cities are generally referred to as walker or okie city. People living in certain cities migrate from one place to another, still maintaining the same livelihood and preserving civilization. It helps people in connecting with mother nature.
The author gives several examples to elucidate problems like discrimination, environmental problems as a result of developing new technologies. He wonders whether the fast development of technology make the world a better place or will it cause even more damage.
Many movies like resident evil, mad max etc are based on migratory cities., where survivors of wars gather into mobile cities and the poor people are often preyed upon by the rich proving the presence of class distinction.
It is my belief that sci-fi technoscapes demonstrate the economy, living conditions, social and cultural lifestyle of the future world. Thus, warning people of the consequences of impending crisis like world wars and exhaustion of resources.
Shaurya kang
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Your summary of Abbott’s text in the first paragraph is slightly problematic – the subheadings of the texts are not merely categories of migratory cities. Abbott started off talking about migration of people from cities to cites in history; then the innovative idea in sci-fi of moving cities that migrate with people – “cities riding the rails” and “hunter -gatherers” are systems of operation which are not mutually exclusive; and lastly, Distributed City as a concept that borrows ideas from Sci-fi cities and sees its form in the real world. It is great that you cited some movie references that reflects qualities of migratory cities from the text, but they will benefit from further description and elaboration.