After the reading, I was able to understand Carl Abbott’s vision for the future cities. Since young, I have been watching a lot of science fiction films. I think people are enthusiastic about science fiction films because they show things those are not feasible with current technologies. Thus, I never thought about different forms of cities. However, Carl Abbott’s article made me to think again about the future cities.  The article explains different forms of cities by providing several examples. One example that I liked was ‘distributed city’. The city is formed with airships, just like the sci-fi films I

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A migratory city is a moving city as its name implies. In real life, cities cannot move due to geographical reasons, but in science fiction, there are various forms of cities. However, science fiction is not divorced from real life. In science fiction, every city has residents from different countries, it also trades with other regions, and energy transmission is common. Distributed city is a concept that relative with urban planning theory and science fiction. Every component of the distributed city is independent of the others and different parts of the city have different function, but it can interact with

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Carl Abbott’s vision on the future seems very futuristic yet realistic at the same time. One of the cities that I found interesting were the distributed cities. This independent city exists in the form of airships. This breaks the stereotype of a city as the city can move around freely. Though the city is not physically connected with each other, the use of airships connect the cities. This city really stood out to me as I believe a city like this may exist one day. With the advancement of transportation, there may be a time in life where having a

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A lot of the cities mentioned in the reading are moving structures that range moving blocks of buildings to even connected ships that form a city. From the tutorial discussion and the example of the walker city from Flood which has citizens wandering as a city without any landmarks, what is a city? Is it the community? The history? The buildings? The various moving cities can be a parallel to real life immigration while we don’t view immigrants bringing their own cities with them, but instead they may join local communities with immigrants from their home country, such as China

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This article discusses the relationship between cities and sci-fi film and imagination. What impressed me most is Mr.Abbott’s insight into distributed cities. Distributed cities remain a typical city’s spatial specialization, but the pieces are scattered instead of adjacent. This concept appears in several sci-fi films, for instance, Terminal World and Cosmopolis. Though as Mr. Abbott mentioned in his article, there is no distributed city yet to be found on our planetary surface, we are actually attempting to form it. The ever-rising trend of globalization makes it possible. Global City is precisely a form of a distributed city. Thanks to the

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