2021 Blog – Page 27 – Architecture and film

[Reading Response:Carl Abbott]

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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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2021 Blog, Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[READING RESPONSE] – Carl Abbott

April 10, 2021 stevecch

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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2021 Blog, Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

Reading Response: Carl Abbott

April 10, 2021 ssl78

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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Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response:Carl Abbott]

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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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Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

Reading Response: Carl Abbott

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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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Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response: Carl Abbott]

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Abbott imagines different styles of futuristic cities. I feel impressive about the imaginative future London, where the skyscrapers are 2000 feet tall while surrounded by urban factories. This kind of city is “vertical other than horizontal”, and I think it represents the social hierarchy itself. The most wealthy and powerful people are locating at the peak of the towers, having harbour-view offices and seaside apartments, while the workers are working at the very bottom. The current metropolises are very similar to this style, such as Central which happens to have the tallest skyline in HK and works as the daily

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Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response:Carl Abbott]

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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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2021 Blog, Lecture 8 Sci-fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response: M. Christine Boyer]

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In the same urban setting with concrete walls, without those imaginary high-tech structures floating in the air as described in science fictions, like it or not, we are living in the Cybercity, especially the case under the popular use of Big Data and Blockchain. The cyberspace and urban dystopia is not a mixture, as their spatial relationship is like mother-and-son. Rather than “Form become InFORMation,” I would say information become space to define our habitat. As simple as the use of mobile phone, or with cyber lampposts set along pavements, our whereabouts in disguise of informative data, are in surveillance.

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2021 Blog, Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[READING RESPONSE] CARL ABBOTT

April 10, 2021 Alex

The article introduces us to several sections from different science fictions while they share a similar concept: migratory cities. Taking a closer look at the development of these science fictions through the timeline order, we would find that the authors gradually put more efforts to make the story logical and reasonable. This leads to a better immersion experience and, more importantly, attracting readers to reconsider the future by providing a possibility. Taking the Snowpiercer as an example, it is a tiny city within a moving train. In the story, there are only hundreds of residents living on the train that

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2021 Blog, Lecture 8 Sci-Fi Technoscapes

[Reading Response: Carl Abbott]

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This reading has caught my attention as the author predicted realistically about the future cities. ‘Distributed cities’, which was formed by the airships, was one of the cities that I felt it was interesting. This is because the concept of city moving around with airships was unique and fresh. I have seen people living their lives in the airships through many of the Sci-fi movies but never thought about this seriously. However, after reading this article, I have started to think about the possibility that these ‘distributed cities’ could become our future cities. I believe there is a high possibility

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