The Walking City. In 1964, British architect Ron Herron, a founding member of the Archigram collective, published drawings of giant, ambulatory, multi-story pods, with extensible legs, that could assemble into an instant metropolis or migrate towards better habitats
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Frans Blok's visualization of Kim Stanley Robinson's Terminator (from the novel '2312'), a dome city that rolls like a train around Mercury, keeping itself within the planet's shadow side and thus avoiding its blazing dawn 3develop.nl/blog/terminato
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And the way the city glides around the planet is quite intriguing: “The sleeves on the underside of the city are fitted over the track at a tolerance so fine that the thermal expansion of the tracks' austenite stainless steel is always pushing the city west..."
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"... onto the narrower tracks still in the shade. A little bit of resistance to this movement creates a great deal of the city's electricity"
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