In this article, the author gives an illusion of migratory cities in different appearances and features. These urban models are fairly popular in the science fictions. Indeed, the concept itself is appealing and novel enough. However, we can find some similarities to our own history. Always under migration, seeking better resource and living condition, such pattern conforms the development of human civilization. Under certain contradictions, our forefathers chose to return to the road of abandon and resettling. For herdsmen who leave their former colony or foreign immigrants arrives in a new nation,they are always migratory people with migratory civilization. While we are imagining probable future conflicts and migrations afterwards, actually we are forecasting how the historic trace of mankind will be presented in the future. As Steven Baxter once wrote: “To walk was the world. To walk was life.” A walking world not only appears in science fictions. In fact, our civilization is always under a motion at its own pace.
——Wu Jingbo 3035845045
Good reflection on the projection of history in futuristic cities. It is true that the fictional cities do not emerge from nowhere, but (sub)consciously refers to current issues and historical choices.