As the human population grows, we can imagine an increasingly urban society. Shifting weather patterns, rising sea levels, reduced access to resources, and a host of other issues will radically impact urban environments, while technology holds out the dream of cities beyond Earth.
For science fiction, cities can be mobile. That is the premise of a stunning reversal. The benefits about walking cities that when a city gets too polluted or its local policies too oppressive, its residents can decide to pack up and move the whole city out. Residents don’t have to leave their apartments because the whole city is moving. The image of vast cities that lumber over the landscape like gigantic transformer toys in their hunt for survival os hard to shake. Also, there is something about trains that helps to marry past to future for science fiction and fantasy.
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