http://theurbanwest.com Official site of Professor Carl Abbott Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:35:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://theurbanwest.com/science-fiction/distributed-cities http://theurbanwest.com/science-fiction/distributed-cities#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:35:36 +0000 admin http://theurbanwest.com/?p=246 We are accustomed to thinking of cities as occupying a single contiguous stretch of landscape. But what if future cities might consist of separate pieces, separated by distance but functioning as a whole. In an article on the online magazine Clarkesworld, I explore a few examples from the world of science fiction novels and television (think Battlestar Galactica). The article is at www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/abbott_01_14.

]]> http://theurbanwest.com/science-fiction/distributed-cities/feed 0