The reading fascinates me with a new perspective on how the imaginary world envisioned in science fictions are related with the real world.
I was provoked to ask the question of what defines a city. The concept of walking cities imagined the flexibility and motion of a territory moving around the globe. In a way, this is similar to rail-riding cities like in Snowpiercer, that small societal systems are built within the drifting city. Yet the largest difference between the two lies in their interaction with the surrounding world. A walking city trades, and hunts other territories, while inhabitants in a rail-riding city is trapped with almost no interactions with the larger world.
Interaction is therefore crucial in defining our globalized world. Like distributed cities, real cities specialize in functions, but integrate or battle against each other as globalization proceeds. Communication technology is what defines the future extent of global interaction.
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To Tiffany
Great reflection. It is true that fictional cities do emerge from various concepts of real cities. Do you think a city is defined by its global interactions? There seem to be more dimensions to describe a city.