Carl Abbott in his book ‘Imagining Urban Futures’ discussed his idea on urban and sci-fi relationships. In chapter three on migratory cities, he used examples to illustrate different kinds of ‘cities’ such as ‘walking city’ and ‘walker city’, mobile cities, distributed cities, etc. There is a film example I found to be interesting which is about how to build up a ‘mini city’ inside the train: Snowpiercer. The author used this example to illustrate a moving world but focuses on the discussion about social classes, which is a common phenomenon in every city and hence stating the principle of a city on its mobility. Another point that I found interesting is the concept of global cities. We now are indeed in a global city, where most of the information, population, economy, etc are all mobile under globalization. It may seem to be an advantage but the author provides us an opportunity to re-think whether boundaries should be considered under a global scope.
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Nice summary of the reading, especially about the film Snowpiercer. I wonder how you would answer your question: whether boundaries should be considered under globalism? What is the significance of a boundary?