This chapter mainly talks about migratory cities. Migratory cities are imagined cities in SCI-FI films, they are moving mobile cities including the walking city, distributed city, instant city, and so on. Among all types of cities mentioned in the chapter, I am most impressed by the train city. In the film Snowpiercer, an eternally moving train is the only thing that protects the remaining humans after an ecological disaster has frozen the Earth. On the train, lower-class passengers live in crowded rear cars, while the elites live in comfortable front cars. The train city in the film actually points to some real-life problems like social inequality and environmental problems. Therefore, although these imagined cities may seem unrealistic, I think that they are not just something out of imagination. I doubt whether migratory cities will become a norm in the future.
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Clear summary. I wonder what your thoughts are regarding your last statement: whether migratory cities will become a norm in the future. Looking back into history, it seems fictional cities proposed in the past were never realized. There seems to be a perpetuating gap between fictional and real cities.