From the reading “imagining urban futures” by Carl Abbott, one of his ideas that impressed me the most is how he defines a “city”. One of the special examples he mentioned in the text is the armada. In his definition, armada is also defined as a city. This concept is thought-provoking to me, initiating my thoughts on what a city means to me. In my option, as long as a place can form a community, it can be defined as a city, which shares a similar concept with the writer, suggested that the armada involved the connection and tying up

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Fang Wenbo UID: 3035789253 In the tutorial, we discuss the interesting future city in the reading. I want to share my view on the class, but time is so limited. I wasn’t able to share my point. About those sci-fi cities in the reading, I think the one on page 366 “city in train’ is very interesting. Although it seems unrealistic at first glance, It is astonishingly similar to our real world. The train city protects people from the terrible weather outside, just like the city that we live in protecting us from the wild environment. It provides us more

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By reading these 2 articles, the second one catches my eyes, as it mentions the real world of cyber cities. I think it gave a great insight into the world’s development where all cities are starting to build like imaginary cities or what they call Sci-Fi cities. When we watch Sci-Fi movies before we never thought that this would come true where there are flying transportations and teleporters everywhere in the cities. Also, the city itself looked very fictional, but then now this essay gave me a feel where this might actually come true as the technology development is on

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At the end of this week’s tutorial, it reminds me of the movie Mad Max. Firstly, I am confused about whether it could be defined as a Cypherpunk Movie, while it normally refers to a type of combining the advanced technology and deteriorated social structure. Mad Max, however, is in an instinct background of the country and social context. The characters are a group of people who seem like been abandoned by dominating cultures and society. Nevertheless, this movie has the visual impression of Cyberpunk, with showing all kinds of new weapons (in a magical way to combine the technology

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In the article, the author imagines the idea of migratory city in the future. He suggests three kinds of migratory city: hunter-gatherers, cities riding the rails, and distributed cities. From my point of view, people’s motivation of making cities movable like avoiding disasters really matters than making cities moving itself. In the examples shown, the author discussed some social problems like class distinction. Science fiction may present a imaginary background associated with people that are typical compared with the ones in the real world. Environmental problem is another concern considering the destruction to the environment when developing technology(Maybe the migratory

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