The reading sums up the forms of “migratory cities” explored in various science-fiction examples. It demonstrated these films’ ability to counter the preceding rules of architectural definition of city – from a space of stale and still to that of flexibility and motion. Such exploration gave a lot of conceptual breakthroughs of thinking about the “impossibilities” about a city, including the unexplored merits within the realm of nowadays’ technology. For instance, cities could merge and develop exponentially amid competition within the framework of Darwinism, or a distributed city could lower environmental footprint and allocate resources more efficiently; Yet, the drawbacks of vulnerability and loss of spatial identity are simultaneously raised. Via the scope of these sci-fi movies about migratory cities, we might as well anticipate how technological advancements could revolutionize the architecture of city, allow creative potentials for further development of our society, as well as an attempt in utopia.
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How do these films anticipate the “revolution of the architecture of the city and creative potentials for further development of our society”? What do you mean and understand by “an attempt in utopia”? To strive towards a perfect equilibrium in the city – a city of equitable distribution of resources? Do these films present a glimpse of how such cities would look like? Or instead, do they exaggerate the inequalities that exist in our cities today?