As the human population grows, we can imagine an increasingly urban society. Shifting weather patterns, rising sea levels, reduced access to resources, and a host of other issues will radically impact urban environments, while technology holds out the dream of cities beyond Earth. For science fiction, cities can be mobile. That is the premise of a stunning reversal. The benefits about walking cities that when a city gets too polluted or its local policies too oppressive, its residents can decide to pack up and move the whole city out. Residents don’t have to leave their apartments because the whole city

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The application of advanced technology has become trendy nowadays. M. Christine reminds me of several humanistic and ethical issues during the booming development of cybercities. For example, does it a long-term achievable idea to construct such a virtual city? It’s widely agreed that a house is a machine for living in’(Le Corbusier), human beings use various artificial intelligence to functionalize our city into better services and comfortable places based on some basic principles. For example, traditional cities contain basic elements such as distance and time. However, Cyber cities turn those elements into an imaginary matrix of computer nets and electronic

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In this article, Carl Abbott describes ‘migration cities’ in science fiction and evaluates how architecture influences futuristic environments. The ‘migration city’ is mobile and not tied to the earth anymore. The formation of these cities is often due to some vast disasters that destroy the living environment of human beings, and they have to flee. Whether the essence of these mobile cities is trains, ships, or other forms, the core is mobility. Cities need to be constantly moving to find the resources for survival. Although these cities are just a fantasy in a science fiction world, they also reflect contradictions

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Carl Abbott talked about imaginary cities in science fiction films. The reason for creating these imaginary cities is because of issues like resource scarcity, environmental degradation, etc. For survival, the residents living in these cities had to develop a new form of a place to live, which the author refers to as “migratory cities.” These cities have the power for actions such as the ability to walk and even fly. These movies are a reflection of the modern social world and social problems, such as the failure of resource allocation. The film also depicts the differences between people of different

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The writer have used several paragraph discussing about the sci-fi cities in future and made several comparisons towards the modern urban cities. The word of migratory city , also can be referred to walking city, is a new concept that the author mentioned in the passage, which is an ignorance of  landscape and few worry about the survival resources such as fossil fuels or other non renewable resources. What the author also mentioned is the reflection of future(sci-fi) cities towards the urban ones. Those imaginary and different changes are mostly discovered for solve problems existed now. Like the traffic congestion

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This article by Ms. Christine Boyer is incredibly obscure. Thus, to better comprehend what does she mean by Cybercities, I went online to see some discussions from some scholars in this area. Some of my understandings are discussed here. Boyer announced, in this article, that information revolution brings a new imagery of future cities. All information is collected and transmitted through electronic communications. Computers take charge as experts on managing and processing all stuff happening in postmodernism cities. She argue that the new virtual world, “cyberspace”, will displace our local experiential world, and users are just part of the matrix

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In his article, Carl Abbott explores fictional cities in science fiction. Due to the shortage of resources, environmental degradation, and other problems. The concept of CyberCities reveals the modernity of technological advances and the industrial side of cities, giving birth to cyberpunk cities. From clay and wood. From bricks to concrete, cities gradually become large machines; as Le Corbusier said, “a house is a machine for living,” and technological advances meet every human need. The inhabitants of these cities have to create a new way of life to survive, which the author calls “migrating cities.” Their cities can move, walk

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The writer discussed about the imaginary cities in the science fiction movies and other kinds. The cause of the imaginary cities are usually built up due to the shortage of resources and environmental damage. The people  in the future have to build new city constructions and form new lifestyle, including the flying and movement of the whole city. However, the movies are the reflection of the modern social world and social problems instead of imagination, including the resource allocation failure and the capitalist. Also, the difference between people in different classes and different genders are reflected in the movie. For

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