Science fiction cities move by floating and flying in the sky, crawling and walking on the road, sometimes floating and sailing on the water. The mobile city from Strength of Stone disassembles and reassembles itself during the journey. This city moves by the elephant legs. Swarm is a city assembled by more than 150 airships, which have different parts scattered in different places and interact with each other by the control of the computer. This moving city looks like the real city, the area in this city is parceled by the functions. Distributed areas can remotely connect to the others by the computer in order to form the Swarm. Like the Mega-city concept, in which several big cities are connected by the infrastructures such as trains, and allow these cities to collaborate with each other in order to have better developments. The science fiction cities are also related to the real city by implying the problems in the real city, such as the fear of the natural disaster.
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You have summarized the forms and functions of multiple migratory cities. I wonder why sci-fi authors would want to come up with fictional cities when they pinpoint real social issues?