This article discusses the relationship between cities and sci-fi film and imagination. What impressed me most is Mr.Abbott’s insight into distributed cities.
Distributed cities remain a typical city’s spatial specialization, but the pieces are scattered instead of adjacent. This concept appears in several sci-fi films, for instance, Terminal World and Cosmopolis. Though as Mr. Abbott mentioned in his article, there is no distributed city yet to be found on our planetary surface, we are actually attempting to form it. The ever-rising trend of globalization makes it possible. Global City is precisely a form of a distributed city. Thanks to the increasing power of communication technologies, people with different nationalities can be tightly connected, which stimulates the global economy’s growth. Our global city is more interactive and flexible.
Personally speaking, some innovative way of structuring the urban city shown in sci-fi films and novels sometimes provide us with some hints of how to plan a city.
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Good attempt in synthesising the Distributed Cities in Abbott’s text. Since you noted that globalisation makes the realisation of Distributed Cities possible, could you name an example other than the BoWash megalopolis, Taheiyō Belt, and the global financial capitals cited in the text? To think further, do you think the Silk Road or even Belt Road are some form of Distributed Cities?