The city in Sci-fi movies is somewhat an imagination of future city infrastructure, and it interacts with issues about ecology, economy and politic. Different city structures are meant to deal with various issues to raise humans’ life quality. Flying New York is to fight against rising sea level, Very Large Structure settling different functions at different levels is to host a large population, and the Distributed city is built with anticipation of the long-term climate change. Sometimes, the city structure is telling things about social management and conflicts underground. It can be seen in “Earth” indicated by Abbott(2016) in his book, which is with gender discrimination and conflicts between classes. All these issues are talked based on today’s reality so that Sci-fi movies may be rehearsals of the future.
Reference:
Abbott, C. (2016). Migratory Cities. In Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn From Them (pp. 72-92). Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press.
Gao Ningling
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Very well written and thoughtful reflection on Abbot’s commentary of Sci-Fi urbanscapes, particularly the pithy concluding statement “Sci-fi movies may be rehearsals of the future.”