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[READING RESPONSE] M. Christine Boyer

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As architects, we manifest our ‘ideal world’ into reality, however, how much should we manipulate or plan our city? Is it right to so do? Imagine a city and its dwellers develop and behave exactly how architects envision them to act. However surreal, it sounds absurdly threateningly and could be realized. In a Machine city, citizens are under surveillance continuously, forced to act with discipline. Such surveillance systems, undeniably, are effective as dwellers bow before horror. Ironically, similar systems are integrated in architectures around us, for instance, school, office, asylums and so on. Urban planners adapt this surveillance method, trying

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[READING RESPONSE] M. Christine Boyer

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Architecture and sci-fi films have similar aims in some sense. They are both artifacts that generate interactions via a physical existence that comes through woolgathering and multiple experiments. However, the difference is that sci-fi films shape the way we investigate the future. They can act as an inspiration to create an utopia from cybercities, which is “the mixture of cyberspace and urban dystopia”. The futuristic and fantasy world do not help us escape from the reality, but to raise reflections on the current problems and help us better understand the reality. In this pandemic time, each of us is building

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Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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The first text provided numerous examples of imaginary cities that might appear in the future, among which most seem pessimistic and desperate. A few questions pop up: Is that what our future will be like? Why do all these authors imagine our future like that? Many pessimistic future cities are imagined as moving ones, which I believe is because it is novel to people living in the world now who have never experienced such a life. Moreover, an individual in a large society is somehow like the moving cities: start travelling from one home, wander in the big ocean of

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Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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While reading the article, I have the same feeling with most of the people. I feel quite pessimistic and cannot see the future, especially the future in Hong Kong. As we know that the overwhelming population is getting serious, it is nearly impossible to purchase estate. As we know that Kowloon Wall City is the product of lacking planning. Sky-rocketing population causing the poor living environment in there. It is something happen in the past. However, I believe that we will face the same problem in the future. Since the Hong Kong population is still growing, the land will be

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Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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While reading examples raised in the first article, a question pops up: why are future imaginations always dark and pessimistic? Our ‘future’ is filled with natural disasters, running out of resources and pollutions together with the disappearance of social structure. In the serial drama Black Mirror, many episodes depict how high technology improves people’s quality of life in the beginning. But almost every one of them turns out to have a heart-broken ending, full of irony, suspicion and critics. The negative imagination of human nature terrifies me more than the physical ones. It seems that the accumulation of human intelligence,

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Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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This week, we have discussed a reading called- imagining urban future and there is a part about moving cities. The writer has listed some examples of movies. Such as snowpiercer. And I have watched this movie before. This movie’s background is the surroundings of the earth in the future are not suitable for human beings anymore. Therefore, the engineers in the future have built a train that moves around the world and the train has unlimited energy to operate. But there is a class struggle between the passengers. Since the human right of the poor peoples has been deprived by

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The reading images about the urban area from the future and the things we can learn from it. Carl mentions a lot of cities that is with its own moving systems, such as wheels, airships, and continuous track. The concept of the moving city is interesting for me since the city can transport itself to the place that this most suitable for development. Because of the greenhouse effect, lots of cities that are near the sea are threatened by the gradually rising sea level.  And it may cost a huge amount of budget to keep the city safe, for example,

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[READING RESPONSE] – Carl Abbott

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By 20X0, over 80% of the earth’s surface will not be suitable for living, and people need to abandon the old city and move into the new one. Most of the futuristic cities in sci-fi movies, stories are written under this kind of setting. In the article, the writer mentions different migratory cities that are common in sci-fi. A giant walking city is riven by a hydroelectric system; A flying city that saves people away from the ground; or an underground city that hides people from the hazard.  Although building these kinds of cities is not realistic at all, the

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Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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Part of the beauty of sci-fi story is the imagination beyond reality. It is always fascinating for us- human who is trapped in this 3 dimension space and 1 dimension of time, experiencing nothing new under the sun. Abbott has showcased vividly some of the imaginary cities in his passage, and got us rethink the reality. I personally find the migratory city an enlightening example. In recent years, with the soaring number of people around the globe not satisfied with their government, the issue of migration has hogged the limelight. Alongside this phenomenon are the moral/ philosophical discussions of whether

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I think that the Walking City is very interesting, the idea is we can move our city to wherever we want. I find it very visionary because although it was raised in 196x, the author already foreseen the future of pollution and repressive regime. Imagine we can go to wherever we want, while living well enough inside one Walking City. This may solve the land problem of Hong Kong, because we can expand the city in the sea, although this may produce more pollution to the ocean. I think in the future we may have Walking City on the Mars

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