From “Walking city”–a huge and self-sufficient mini-city that looks like a combination of giant construction cranes, robots and praying mantises,published by British architect Ron Herron,to a migrating city that can move in the ground in Flood which published by Stephen Baxter,these cities are the result of the authors’ imaginings of the cities of the future based on the issues facing their time and their own insights(Abbott, C.2016).Many times there is something behind science fiction that allows readers or audiences to connect. For example, trains are often regarded as a bridge between the future and the present (Abbott, C.2016). Distributed cities are in stark contrast to the urban future and urban planning of science fiction (Abbott, C.2016). Cities are originally scattered all over the world due to various man-made or natural reasons, and the population in cities will not expand endlessly. But in science fiction it subverts the image and reality of the city, because in a lot of science fiction, the city is a huge, fixed city group, and over time, will become taller and wider, these fiction and reality Science fiction challenges fundamental economic and social assumptions (Abbott, C.2016).
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Appreciate your effort in summarizing. I would like to remind you to better organize your ideas in paragraphs for clearer expression. What is the impact of fictional cities on you? How do you rethink cities in reality?