Walking Cities: Reality or Fiction?

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00:00 INTRO
00:33 THE ORIGIN OF ARCHIGRAM
01:14 WALKING CITY
02:34 THE LINE AS A WALKING CITY
03:51 PLUG-IN CITY & METABOLISM (NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER)
04:57 CAPSULE HOMES
07:43 MONGOLIAN DWELLINGS (GER/YURT) & ULAANBAATAR
08:58 JAPAN SINKS
11:09 VLS (VERY LARGE STRUCTURE)
12:33 NOMADISM IN THE DIGITAL ERA
13:52 NARU’S MOBILE VILLAGE
#walkingcities #archigram #mortalengines #movingcastle #nomad #mongolia #worldbuilding
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Exploring the concept of Walking Cities, originally envisioned by the Archigram group in the 1960s, this documentary delves into the idea of nomadic, self-sustaining cities that roam freely and connect with others. It examines the architectural and social implications of such cities, their potential as a solution to sinking cities, and the shift from static to nomadic living. The documentary also discusses contemporary interpretations and the feasibility of this visionary concept in today's world.

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@chazcampos1258 Ай бұрын

Mobile architecture in fiction: on legs: Howl's Moving Castle on caterpillar tracks: Mortal engines. on rails: The Inverted World. Snowpiercer. In flash fiction: Sophronia, in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

@waffle3709 Ай бұрын

I love snowpiercer

@astronomia2826 Ай бұрын

Just realised that we need MORE such movies with a constantly moving settlements.

@DamiLeeArch Ай бұрын

Oooh good excuse to read invisible cities again!

@ObsidianAmeth Ай бұрын

Castle in the sky from Ghibli studio also have mobile architecture if you count floating among the cloud as mobile.

@devilishfun Ай бұрын

Mortal Engines is such a damn good book series and although the film series didn’t stay true to it, what a world that was created!

@WB-se6nz Ай бұрын

Drugs were definitely involved in the design of this insane concept: psychedelics for inspiration, cocaine for execution

@DamiLeeArch Ай бұрын

Definitely 😂

@righthererightnowproductio9525 Ай бұрын

And oil for energy

@banananoodles Ай бұрын

@@righthererightnowproductio9525to much oil fumes

@itoibo4208 Ай бұрын

It seems like the Jawa sand crawler in Star Wars crossed with ancient desert trade routes. You can travel around vast, empty, deserts, carrying all of the comforts of home and buy and sell things to make your fortune.

@psgouros Ай бұрын

When they finish “the Line” city, I want to see the epic sculpture of “the Straw” constructed at one end …

@silentDD Ай бұрын

a cruise ship can be considered a moving city, but its movement is limited to the sea

@jeffbybee5207 Ай бұрын

Wow limited to 70 percent of the earth

@charismahornum-fries691 Ай бұрын

And port areas.

@elmobrandao9849 Ай бұрын

Or a bunch of ships sharing functions. Like Armada ("the Scar") or the Yellow Fleet (this one happened in real life)

@patrickbueno3279 Ай бұрын

@@jeffbybee5207not 70 percent, because can't move them in a lot of areas due to the danger they pose on the ship

@TheNefastor Ай бұрын

And notice how nobody would actually want to live on one. Also, remember COVID when they turned into plague ships?

@crowtower Ай бұрын

Some retirees live nomadic lives on Cruise ships. A permanent home on such a ship could be the most realistic implementation of this concept, with communities spending a month or so at a port then moving on to the next one.

@bryansmith1920 Ай бұрын

Mega size Cruise Ships already cause major problems for land based Cities, when suddenly a Cruise ship Triples a coastal towns population over night, I have sailed the Greek and Slovak Islands on sailing yachts, to know, Build floating Cities, in a fixed position, look to history, for migration causing WAR

@eric2500 Ай бұрын

BIOLOGICAL WASTE. Easy spread of disease, no way to get away. NO thanks!

@charismahornum-fries691 Ай бұрын

The port cities would need to be capable and able to accommodate the ships constantly and dynamically. That's a massive cost for people living in port areas already.

@crowtower Ай бұрын

@@charismahornum-fries691 That's an excellent point! Thank you

@tylerchiu7065 Ай бұрын

@@charismahornum-fries691ports that deal with cruise ships already exist and do such things

@Joao-pl6db Ай бұрын

One thing that always stuck me is these mega projects never talk about fuel

@02suraditpengsaeng41 Ай бұрын

typical every behemoth boss in vehicle game

@theoi3921 Ай бұрын

not fuel, methanisation about waste of population ;)

@blar2112 Ай бұрын

Becasue the answer is simple. Nuclear.

@MH-rj3jf Ай бұрын

Or how the city handles the width of diversity in climate and terrain while remaining efficient, and their response plans for fast-spreading or quick-forming natural disasters.

@noatrope Ай бұрын

@@MH-rj3jf In the latter case, at least, mobile cities aren't obviously worse off than the more familiar static ones, are they?

@4Gehe2 Ай бұрын

As an engineer I get anixiety from the thought of a moving skyscraper moving both sides of another skyscraper (and on top of it). The ground under the moving and stationary skyscraper distorting under the mass. Along with the surrounding area. Can you imagine the mess of alternations in settling soil. The literal ground and bedrock bending in a dynamic manner up and down as this moves. And with it the foundations, pillars... everything. And it all gets amplified with height. Then windloads... earthquakes... Please stop the sales people! Don't make us engineers to even think about having to realise this.

@CHIEF_420 Ай бұрын

🧂

@dgthe3 Ай бұрын

You're a civil engineer, aren't you? As a mechanical, I assure you: your fears are meaningless. Any structure heavy enough to do that to the ground will first kill the axles and bearings that transmit its weight to the legs/wheels/tracks that it's supposed to move with. Think of it like this: an ambulance doesn't need to worry about the effect of carrying a 1000lb patient, because said patient won't even fit through the door of their home anyway.

@lexolexoh Ай бұрын

The amount of energy required to transport the city like this, and to process waste and harvest water and energy from nuclear/solar makes this an insanely complicated project… better to focus on a space elevator at this point of humanity as far as next human civilization / generation post-national post-capitalist projects that would be good for the world’s economy goes.

@patera83 Ай бұрын

You might as well build a Gundam hehehe

@Joe-jv5mm Ай бұрын

Don't over 🤔 it you have floating skyscrapers floating the 🌎 oceans

@LelandMaurello Ай бұрын

Something that I found out while being homeless: It's very hard to find any space that isn't claimed, and doesn't want you there. This shows these walking 'cities' around larger stationary cities like little bugs feeding off a host. Well, don't forget, all the land around cities is also owned by someone, or some country. A lot of legal land issues would need to be ironed out, and some places will simply never give in to that. I realize that's just one small point, but I wanted to remind us of that.

@TheBayru Ай бұрын

I agree with that. Also, there is a lot of infrastructure in place around static settlements (transportation, communication, nature conservancy, waste disposal, ...) that is maintained by them. If you can't offer them something in return (trade, entertainment,...), they may feel you are freeloading on their hard work. So ideally this moving city needs to also be an energy neutral, self sustaining, circular economy with a surplus for trade. Otherwise it's more akin to a cruise ship. Also, I wouldn't call 5000 people a city. A village maybe ...

@RiannaPeterson Ай бұрын

I'm so sorry you were homeless! I hope life is better for you now, praying for you ❤️

@vadim6385 6 күн бұрын

Exactly, try traveling somewhere by car and sleep in the same car to save costs, and see how are you're being waken up by loud knocking and yelling at you to GTFO. Now turn that into a nomad caravan of dozens of cars, trucks and RVs, open land is much harder to find, and even if they do, the said caravan leaves piles of trash and land contamination from human waste and cars leaking oil, nobody will want that on their land. And what about the fuel consumption and air pollution of all those vehicles. Even when they're stationary, you still need fuel to power generators, need a source of water and somewhere to dump the trash and wastewater.

@elatedmaniac Ай бұрын

This is why architects give engineers nightmares...

@TT_Revamped Ай бұрын

As an architect, I agree

@Justusson 21 күн бұрын

This gives Me nightmares and I’m an architect!! (I had the teacher who’s idea this is, Peter Cook’s)

@SullenSecret Ай бұрын

When analyzing the potential for moving cities, I'm faced with a few essential problems: crushing the terrain underneath (which could be disastrous for stability), constant vibrations like earthquakes, and trying to keep everything level, despite wildly unlevel terrain. I'm confused at how they were even proposed.

@IainMcClatchie Ай бұрын

It's as if the folks who were speculating about these things were completely unfamiliar with engineering. Taller buildings have more weight on a given area of ground. For a two story house, it's fine to dig down to competent soil and put the foundation there. At ten stories, you need to reach down and contact something more robust. At 100 stories, you pretty much have to go down to bedrock. Mobile buildings on land do not relax this constraint. Everywhere bit of ground they touch will need a footpad engineered like a permanent foundation. Maybe this could make sense if the buildings are moving around a grid in which most of the sites are occupied most of the time by buildings which all have consistent ground loading (and thus similar height). This is more like that plug-in city. If cities are going to move they'll need to be floating. Floating in water seems the most practical way to do it if there actually is some benefit, but I doubt the benefit. It's also possible to float like a hovercraft on air, which has been done to move large objects (a refinery is I think the largest) short distances over very carefully graded and compacted roadbeds. Floating in space is also possible, and in the distant future I think likely and probably predominant. But that's going to take centuries, and the city mobility will be a side effect of other constraints rather that the primary goal.

@CHIEF_420 Ай бұрын

@@IainMcClatchie🧂 @SullenSecret

@TheGrinningViking Ай бұрын

This is just a reinvention of traditional nomadic European villages before they were forced to stop performing useful functions and were left with basically settling down or just doing crime.

@sh4dow666 Ай бұрын

@@IainMcClatchieOr floating in the dense atmosphere of Venus...

@kamel3d Ай бұрын

I dont see th point ot be honest

@MrAlsachti Ай бұрын

A city is a place bigger than itself. It is part of a region, its history and culture, its landscapes. It has neighbours, it has visitors from afar. I prefer my city - a city where I moved twenty years ago - to stay a place. A place where people come and go, a place between past and future in its 2,000-year-old history, its roots - my roots, our roots - deep in the earth, instead of being a mere vehicle... Wait, you can fight other moving cities? Where do I sign?!

@TinkiW Ай бұрын

beautifully said

@amiralirezaeifar4865 Ай бұрын

Last line😂😂😂

@drake84tsoni67 Ай бұрын

The sailing community (off grid, long term live abords) might be considered a nomadic group. That both stays in one spot together and travels individual.

@MarcoSwart Ай бұрын

A traditional circus could be viewed as a moving city.

@MaliciousMoxy Ай бұрын

Yes, and a more functional ones than those presented. A commonality is that both are orchestrated by clowns.

@thisguy2557 Ай бұрын

This reminds me of the mobile cities from a game called arknights, where the world is covered with random and frequent natural disasters, so the people there just put their cities on giant moving platforms to avoid the catastrophis, and their society is based on living on these often isolated mobile cities traveling around their countries

@chaomatic5328 Ай бұрын

That's the same subplot of Mortal Engines (the book)

@prcervi Ай бұрын

@@chaomatic5328 it's a good framework for a world setting

@haiakazeh5892 Ай бұрын

@@chaomatic5328 The largest mobile cities in arknights are way more massive when compared to Mortal Engines (atleast in the movies) and less goofy. Mobile cities in arknights is also really slow that takes weeks to completely evacuate from a disaster (they use some device to predict it), also their appearance looks like our modern cities on a very large launch pads used in rockets. Additionally, these cities can provide mostly everything to its inhabitants. Also some of these cities/infrastructure complex (the very small ones) are very old, like ancient old. I am also amused that the thing they use to power these cities also gives them cancer that can infect others, and where do they get this power? From the aftermath of the disaster they are running away from 😂

@chaomatic5328 Ай бұрын

@@haiakazeh5892 Step 1: Create energy device unlike anything ever seen before Step 2: Use it so much it causes disasters Step 3: ??? Step 4: profit Edit: oh and btw the cities in the ME movie are pitiably small. That's what I figure the pleasance barge' size is around. In the book, London ain't even the biggest city, they're struggling with their 4 level, in fact some German Panzeyau-Baerstrich (smt like that) has 7 levels, and almost eats London. Guess why it didn't succeed.

@thatshrian Ай бұрын

There's always something so humorous and comforting about Dami's videos. And I'm all here for it.

@stevemyers8330 Ай бұрын

Agreed! I know I'm not growing new brain cells, but I do feel like some long-dormant ones wake up while watching!

@tryscience Ай бұрын

She does have a captivating mix of beauty, intelligence, and creativity. Perhaps someday I will win the heart of some similar beautiful young lady.

@thatshrian Ай бұрын

Go for it.

@user-wx2fp9cm3i Ай бұрын

what she dont talk about is the Casimir effect they gonna use for live surveillance of the line they can see everything in the line with no cameras 24/7 live

@zasalamel88 Ай бұрын

The more I watch Damis videos, and see the small little snippets of her personality in the B roll, the more I'm starting to think that she's a really cool and fun person in IRL. She seems to have a great sense of humor and I think a lot of people would enjoying watching her for her.

@mitchhaelann9215 Ай бұрын

The mobile-community thing was tried back in the 60's and 70's when hippies banded together in caravans travelling wherever they could find free food and groovy music. Didn't work out long term because of resource constraints and economic pressures. The thing is, cities all have 2 parts. They are places to live, yes. But they're also places to do something. London was once a shepard's meeting place. Rome was once a mere trading post. Even old New York was once New Amsterdam (Why they changed it I can't say. People just liked it better that way.) They Might Be Giants jokes aside, New York started as a sea port and fishing village. Every successful city started as a place providing services and support to people doing SOMETHING. So any mobile city has to have a purpose, presumably more than just survival and housing. No purpose, no economy. No economy, no liveability. Hippie love-caravans were doomed because they had no income, no ability to trade for resources they needed, and no unifying support structure beyond counter-culture. 'Freaking out the squares' and 'resisting the maaaan' can only get you so far.

@Shmidershmax Ай бұрын

I feel like they probably knew they couldn't do it forever. In the end they dedicated part of their lives to live with a sense of freedom and community that most of us seldom have. Most of them have probably grown out of that phase of their lives but I could imagine all the fond memories they have of it. They were probably annoying as fuck to have in your neighborhood though.

@Nightdare Ай бұрын

@@Shmidershmax They were deadbeats that leeched off society, 'justifying' their actions as "peace, love and community" Most of those became the exact same thing they opposed

@yjlom 10 күн бұрын

the English changed the name to a proper English one after they conquered it, because you can't have a city named after your enemy's city

@user-hf3fu2xt2j Ай бұрын

I like how you make these videos about absolutely impractical fantasies that would never happen. Feels like reading a nice, beautiful fiction story.

@dt6esdff413 22 күн бұрын

exercising critical thinking is very important part of our daily life... it isn't fantasy it's practical engineering which's limited by current technologies...

@hugo3627 5 күн бұрын

@@dt6esdff413 Maybe you should practice what you preach. Anyone who critically thinks about these ideas for a single second will understand that they are all absurdly impractical. There is simply no good reason to build a moving city. Its even more absurd to build a moving city as one big megastructure as opposed to a fleet of structures.

@dt6esdff413 5 күн бұрын

@@hugo3627 i said "practical engineering" not practical application... I've degree in structural engineering, we do this kind of creative excessive during college. talk to me when you stop watching cartoons

@cesarvidelac Ай бұрын

I was an architectural draftsman. I must say that too often the great minds dream too much. Reality checked all this weird concepts from the 50s and 60s out. There are many more obvious and pressing problems that depend on political will more than engineering, like preserving and augmenting green areas.

@reubenjelley3583 Ай бұрын

How you gonna brew that political will without dreaming ??

@cesarvidelac 3 күн бұрын

@@reubenjelley3583 i was a dreamer, that's how I know it's useless. And before dreaming we should get rid of politicians and get technicians to manage the resources that have been wasted or spoiled. Then we can dresm, first we have to solve hunger and poverty.

@ailo4x4 Ай бұрын

Interesting ideas! In the US we have about 11 Megastructure communities. We call them "super carriers". I spent 4 years on one. It consists of 5K people, 100 airplanes, upper/middle/lower class communities, self contained power (nuclear reactor), etc. They are not a far stretch from Snow Piercer in many ways. The only thing that makes it function is a shared community/mission and absolute authority structure. Would I choose to live that way in civilian life? Not a chance. I don't believe that most people can function in that kind of society without some form of coercive authority to ensure the basics needs of the entire community are met. Meaning, nobody wants to service sewage systems but somebody HAS to do it or te whole community suffers. And I don't know many people who would willingly submit themselves permanently to that kind of life.

@noatrope Ай бұрын

Sewage maintenance technicians do exist in civilian communities, too.

@0o0ification Ай бұрын

Don't forget about the Mercy and Comfort too 😉 Similar design considerations, albeit for different deployments

@ailo4x4 Ай бұрын

@@noatrope True, but they can go home at night. Can't do that on a carrier. Your job and your home are the same thing.

@carlosandleon Ай бұрын

There are civilian septic tank divers and in my country they go in there just wearing shorts.

@carlosandleon Ай бұрын

@@ailo4x4Nonsense, home would be somewhere else on the ship. Besides, a civilian ship doesn’t have to follow a carrier building plan

@ErikMKeller Ай бұрын

It's so refreshing to toss around ideas without stopping them in their tracks because it might be a challenge or even impossible to take care of a certain aspect of the idea. A very insightful video!

@TheGrinningViking Ай бұрын

... You just invented Gypsies. You just invented gypsy carts and made them more complicated and difficult. (I'm deliberately not saying Romani because they mostly settled down when they had the choice, and most modern gypsies aren't Rom and none I know of sell metalwork, art, fake magic, interesting dances and music, etc.)

@TheGrinningViking Ай бұрын

FFS this is even worse than rich people "inventing" worse trains.

@derryohalloran Ай бұрын

Really nice note to end on, came here for the architecture but stayed for the wholesome optimism. Fantastic video

@khulanerdenebileg3881 Ай бұрын

Adding to the topic of moving houses, "ger": Before Kharhorum city /Хархорин хот/ was established, Mongolians had moving cities comprised of hundreds and hundreds of gers, with millions of livestock following. A relatively detailed video was made by TEDed on this topic, mostly relating to how queens managed the whole affair.

@turmunkhganbaatar2515 Ай бұрын

Qarqurem was following a much more ancient urban tradition from Luut Hot to Ordu Baliq to Qata Balgas. There's even Avraga on Huduu aral. While mobile ordus did exist there very much also fixed settlements in conjunction here and there built around a few rare farming communities, but mostly palaces and later on monestaries. These often had worshops and craftsman and or markets that could provide manufactured goods to both the lord and the surruonding rural mostly herding population. Theres the various palaces Chingis Qaan wives governed from or even after Qaraqorum there was the seasonal capitals like Shaazan Hot or other settlements like Chinqai Balgas. The Qaans of the Mongol Empire and many others like Gok Turks spent time moving to and from various locations like palace settlements, hunting lodges etc through out the year eith their mobile ord to temporarily assume governorship and direct rule while delegating the rest of the empire to governors, feudal vassals or their wives.

@cyrkielnetwork Ай бұрын

Romani and other itinerant groups was basically this. They moved form city to city as a group with social structure, they interated with host city for some time, they made trades and provided entertaiment, and then move again. Maybe moving cities would be a strech, but they definately operate as moving villages that plug-in into cities. Nomads are bit different.

@BrooksFrancois Ай бұрын

Dear DamiLee, I love your craziness. Again, you put a smile on my face. Have you imagine all the problems this terrific idea would cause ? Just ask gypsies and the Jewish community. Living in a place, we say « habiter », which means staying still in a geographical place. When I visit a new place, I often think : « Hey, I would like to buy this house, » realizing just after that, if I stayed in this new house it would become boring quite fast. And I would like to move again elsewhere. Your idea of a moving city rules my problem. I could buy my new house there. A thousand thanks for sharing your enthusiasm. Love from Québec.

@leslieproudfoot924 Ай бұрын

This makes me think of The Longest Cocktail Party from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

@hijiriyukari Ай бұрын

in ARKNIGHTS story the reason why most countries resort to mobile cities is to evade incoming disaster called catastrophies in Gargantia they have a waterworld-esque scenario where they have a lot of boats of different varieties linked together

@chaook Ай бұрын

absolutely pushing nomadic/mobile city plates in Arknights to be looked at, also the Landship! they are quite the beautiful worldbuilding!

@developingtank Ай бұрын

When is the DamiLee and Huge If True big brained women of KZfaq collab? The amount of growth this channel has had in terms of how high the quality has gotten (it was always good, just saying it keeps getting better), the ability to find topics that are incredibly unique, and the viewership/subs since it started is so cool, inspiring, and compelling to me as a lifetime learning and someone who seeks out higher levels of discourse. Obviously, there’s a desire for high quality research driven material on KZfaq, but only a few channels deliver on it. I’m just stoked that we have this channel to deliver.

@RichardLeClair-bx7ww Ай бұрын

I love your channel! I appreciate the balance you've struck between the artistic, cerebral, and satirical. I've developed a habit of regularly turning to your work for inspiration for my book series. Keep up the great work!

@samforsyth Ай бұрын

This sort of reminds me of the hidden little "cities" that exist on cruise ships for the people who live and work on the ships for months at a time. Not to this scale obviously. They often have their own infrastructure, living spaces, shops, leisure areas etc...and sometimes it connects with the same amenities that the customers use, sometimes it's hidden in "no access" areas.

@zaniq23 Ай бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_The_World

@ayjkpsy Ай бұрын

I love how you make architecture very accessible!

@bonezj117 Ай бұрын

12:18 we already have those, they are called US navy aircraft carriers. They have a diversity of people working together, it travels around the world, has stores, mail services, airport, and pretty much everything else like a city.

@matthewutech5970 20 күн бұрын

While naval carriers and cruise ships are city-*like*; being used *as a city* isn't the point. Cities are for permanent civilian living; where as a carrier is a fortress with a crew rotation. You normally can't be born on, live, and die on a single carrier your entire life.

@AramisWyler Ай бұрын

Loved this. Could totally see a framework for an apartment style building where all the apartments could be unplugged onto a drive train and behave like an R until they get to a new building to rent a slot in. If the appt template had a fixed interface for the exhaust and plumbing, those could be centralized in the structure. A hub for a pluggable neighborhood.

@Volkbrecht Ай бұрын

Thing is, we have that already. It's called houses. Just put bring a rental truck full of your belongings, and you can plug yourself into a neighborhood ;)

@AramisWyler Ай бұрын

@@Volkbrecht Yes, I suppose so. If you're a renter your whole life and have no need to bring your home itself and any improvements you made along with you, you could just gut it and take the contents somewhere else. That's like the same.

@robertlewis5439 Ай бұрын

The logistics for a moving city is astounding: fuel, food, drinking water, clean air, cooling, electrical, internet, sewage, trash, hospital, gyms, jail, airport, library, movie theaters, churches, and space to legally move the whole thing. Culture will matter - an enclosed system like those described can be efficient, like a Navy aircraft carrier on deployment following months of intense training, or fall into chaos, like a cruise ship in extended unplanned quarantine, or go off the allegorical rails like Snowpiercer.

@dgthe3 Ай бұрын

Fuel: nuclear. Run everything in the city off of electricity. Food: import, just like normal cities Water: clean and recycle. Occasionally top up from other sources & evacuate contaminated sludge. Clean air: these aren't hermetically sealed bubbles. Want air? Open a window. There'll always be a breeze ... Cooling: slightly better than a normal city since there is potential to cover the underside of the city with a gigantic radiator Electrical: see #1 Internet: they have the 'net on ships. And airplanes. And the ISS. This is a solved problem. Sewage: see #3 Trash: recycle what you can, incinerate the rest. Civil buildings: include them. No different than a small town. Airport: helipad(s) so a helicopter can get you to/from a real airport Space to move it legally: I would assume that these would be commissioned/created by pre-existing governance structures. Legal operating status would be implied.

@ezraa5985 Ай бұрын

Currently an Emergency nurse, but looking to make the switch into an M.Arch program next May! Thanks for your vids 🤙🏼

@royceroyce7715 Ай бұрын

Good luck, stranger! :) You can do itttt

@carlholter328 Ай бұрын

one thing im wondering about this topic is the impact walking cities have on the relationship between community and land. Would't they be isolating? Imagine growing up in a city always on the move, never having the necessity to stop. What would you think of the outside world? Wouldn't the world become much smaller? What about people choosing to stay on the ground or simply not having the social access to moving cities. Would moving cities be a new social class? Super Nomads?

@JoshuaC923 Ай бұрын

Brilliant presentation as always! Nomadic cities probably impossible on earth, it might make sense when we start settling on another planet, for scientific bases etc

@marcmakes1725 Ай бұрын

Saturn's Children, by Charles Stoss, has a city on Mercury that runs on a track all the way around the equator the city stays just in the edge of the shadow between light and dark to maintain it's now temperature. I think The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi, has mobile Martian cities.

@subduedreader5627 Ай бұрын

Star Wars Legends had a similar city, Nomad City, though it walked.

@leejerrett8268 Ай бұрын

Yay! Someone mentioned one of my all time favourite novels!

@royceroyce7715 Ай бұрын

Quantum Thief was the first book I encountered this in, and boy I'm excited to look up these other books. I loved that dang impossible, weird city.

@leejerrett8268 Ай бұрын

@@royceroyce7715 Saturn’s Children also features floating cloud-cities in the semi-habitable layer of Venus’s upper atmosphere and a bio-dome built on a trans-Neptunian object. It’s a shame that the first edition was given such a god-awful cover that might put off readers. The sequel is also brilliant and features settings like necropolis spacecraft styled after gothic cathedrals and cities built on the sea floor of a water covered super-earth exoplanet. I especially recommend it if you are the type who enjoys in-depth explorations of how interstellar trade and systems of currency would function in a hard sci-fi setting where ftl is impossible, or discussion of the physiology and evolution of synthetic life-forms who’s individual cells are programmed to behave like the ideal independent ‘rational actors’ of classical economic theory.

@stephentsang9194 Ай бұрын

what a great addition to the Line with a Walking City. Actually, the Walking City idea seems like a cruise ship to me as thee are cruise ships with rooms you can permanently own. so there is that.

@samuxan Ай бұрын

This is what I was thinking the whole video. People who work on those cruises that can hold +5000 passengers already have that nomadic city life. And looking at those cruises proves the bigger problem of managing the resources

@brian7android985 Ай бұрын

Or a command and control centre so the rulers can turn up anywhere and put down the dissidents

@forestsouthwick3949 19 күн бұрын

First video I watched other than a short and your editor is amazing.

@Almostcool1 Ай бұрын

I always enjoy your content. I wish there were more, approachable architectural vlogs like yours

@somethingawesome8656 Ай бұрын

I was expecting social darwinism and some mortal engines references 😂

@chaomatic5328 Ай бұрын

"And when the mobile city that the inventor of social darwinism was eaten, its inhabitant welcomed their capture with open arms" They probably didn't welcome it as much when they were turned into slaves, tho

@ecotix Ай бұрын

Mortal Engines was my very first thought!

@redfieldltf7012 28 күн бұрын

And anime game called arknights

@Leto2ndAtreides Ай бұрын

There's a manhwa called Reincarnator where at one point in the story, the MC goes to a place where the people live on giant moving amphibious monsters. Which makes you wonder... How about organic engineering? 3D printed organic cities that use some general cell base, and mix in both animal and plant tech, to create a fully self-sustaining and mobile city base, that can also grow in size as needed? Although it would be difficult to develop and AI intensive to manage, solar power from the sun (through plants) could maybe power something that's generally mobile. I remember reading about a pure base cell being developed some years ago - the absolute minimum machinery required for a cell to function and be able to reproduce... In building an organic city, you'd likely also have to develop some kind of anti-disease system - because a single genetic base could potentially be quite vulnerable... But again, that's what AI is for... I'm looking forward to there some day being artificial antibodies for any disease... You give AI a sample of the disease and your own DNA, and it runs simulations and then builds out antibodies for the disease that can be integrated in your own body.

@mr.vincec6402 17 сағат бұрын

sounds like a maintenance nightmare for engineers

@sadwaffle6736 Ай бұрын

You truly are such an amazing writer, and presenter. I love the lyricism that comes through in your work! Keep it up Dami :)

@DavidHuffTexas Ай бұрын

The production value and presentation of the videos on this channel just keep getting better & better. Massive respect to Dami and the crew!

@THICCTHICCTHICC Ай бұрын

My only issue with moving cities is that they are somewhat geographically locked, and they arent capable of containing giant populations. A big walking city of say 10,000 people traversing the same region over and over would probably get extremely annoying.

@NapoleonicWargaming Ай бұрын

I gotta say, that was the smoothest ad transition I've ever seen. Bravo!

@rodneykelly8768 Ай бұрын

The idea of nomadic communities brings to mind the culture of the Romani. They would travel from community to community, selling their services, and then moving on. The problem is that the communities that they visit would view them with suspicion.

@Woketard Ай бұрын

Because they refuse to assimilate.

@felezeros4556 Ай бұрын

They themselves are often isolationist and leave behind a lot of rubbish when they move on

@adithyavraajkumar5923 Ай бұрын

Found the racist Europeans in the comments lol ^

@Woketard Ай бұрын

@@adithyavraajkumar5923 Yawn.

@Well_Earned_Siesta Ай бұрын

Love these sci-fi and conceptual episodes! Would love to see you do a deep dive on The City and The City, by China Mieville. It would be interesting to discuss the blurred line between architecture and the perception of architecture and space

@adriftedshadow Ай бұрын

Hello @DamiLeeArch ! When it comes to moving cities, I would really, really love it if you covered the moving cities, or simply, landships of the world of Terra, from the video game Arknights. The world of Terra is constantly ravaged by "Catastrophes" and hence most of the nations have their entire cities moved to avoid getting hit by the Catastrophes.

@Vernand1 Ай бұрын

A town needs to be stationary, so that the individual, the community, and the land itself can properly facilitate a symbiosis and a reason to care for each other. Land loses all value if completely leaving with everything of value with you is a viable option. If you've grown up in a single valley, you understand why it's so important to respect.

@GeoEngel 29 күн бұрын

13:41 sounds like a great primer for world building an adventurer's guild

@prime1collector792 Ай бұрын

Kudos to you and the team for another high quality video!

@Leto2ndAtreides Ай бұрын

I've read about digital entrepreneur communities that have housing in various parts of the world... So, you can kinda bounce around within different locations of your own community. I've personally thought that Tech could make that experience much more personalized.

@CBGBBB Ай бұрын

THE LINE: becoming more and more like Snowpiercer everyday

@michaeltalley2283 Ай бұрын

This sounds like it would easier to convert larger ships into floating islands that can link up, since there is more ocean that there is dry land.

@sindre. Ай бұрын

I love how this channel focus on ideas and concepts with an open mind. It’s like a cognitive playground seeing possibilities, potential faults, and psychological impact. Using previous videos to underline argument is such a nice touch. Thanks for bringing the beauty of exploring ideas into your content 🙌🏻

@TheAxzibit Ай бұрын

I think the closest to walking city is cruise ship and super carrier, most cruise ship is have more people than some village and small town on my country, and don’t forget super carrier also have more fire power than most countries. But, thank you very much for the video, it gives me more insight about walking city concept.

@artor9175 Ай бұрын

I remember reading a sci-fi story about a moving city, (can't recall the title, sorry) but instead of wheels or treads or anything like that, the city was simply always being rebuilt at the leading edge and deconstructed at the back end. Every generation or so, families would vacate their apartment and migrate to the front end where shiny new accommodations had been constructed. As an interesting contrast, the protagonist, while traveling off the beaten path through the service bowels of the city, encounters nomadic Romani, who are the only people who move outside the megastructure.

@josheast3100 Ай бұрын

Hi I just got here and this is the first video I have watched on your channel but I love your content and am really interested in architecture so thank you for these amazing videos. I would love to see a video on city's that try and integrate with nature and natural structures. But keep up the good work 😃

@Se7enGrand Ай бұрын

studying about Archigram was some of the most fun I've ever had while studying architecture. Thank you for the video!

@gamercow517 Ай бұрын

I love your videos because they are an amazing combination of art, architecture, engineering, and sociology.

@4729Punisher Ай бұрын

As the oldest son of an architect, I was destined to become an architect. Apparently, so was my brother and son. Is it just me, or does anyone else have a dream house in your head, and every night sit down to work on the design for your dream house? For 20 years I've spent time every night drawing, erasing, drawing some more and erasing the design I one day hope to build for my family so I can leave a piece of me behind in the form of a beautiful house. I'm about 6 months from breaking ground after 20 years of working on this design. I wish everyone could see it. I feel it's life changing.

@hemangmathur2823 Ай бұрын

I don't know if you'll ever see this, but your videos make me hopeful about this world. I don't know why, they just do. So thank you.

@robertnunes1948 Ай бұрын

You, your staff and combined efforts have always left me speechless. You allow me to expand what I see. Thankyou. Thankyou for sharing and .....simply, thankyou.

@stewarts8597 Ай бұрын

I always find your videos fascinating

@davidmerriken313 Ай бұрын

A realistic verison of this would be a "swarm city" with many individual tents/caravans moving together. IRL examples are circues, bands on tour, and oil rigging companies. Each one needs to move a LOT of people and equipment (and/or animals) into an area with little or no city infrastructure. So they need to bring their own power, water and food processing. And other city stuff like repair shops and general stores. I'd love to see you make a video annalying Barnum and Baily Curcus for example!

@MaliciousMoxy Ай бұрын

Those are all impossible but very comforting architectural fantasys that ignore obvious problems. This is architectural escapism instead of addressing the very real issues.

@malik_alharb Ай бұрын

Dami should get into a acting, she's very photogenic

@captainlovebug Ай бұрын

I had no idea how much I enjoyed learning about architecture until I found your channel. Thank you for my new Interest 🥰

@Lancetronium Ай бұрын

Great video, so fascinating, love the introspection at the end.

@1582len Ай бұрын

Her videos are always informative and entertaining.

@DJCarsonCreative Ай бұрын

Fascinating as always. Curious if you are familiar with the fictional city of Rapture from the Bioshock video game series? A community of wealthy elite relocate to the bottom of the ocean where, led by a charismatic leader, build a community free of government, religion, and moral restrictions. In a recipe for "wherever you go there you are" the need for an army of workers to keep this utopia functioning creates a stylish underwater hell scape, perfect for a first person shooter. I recommend the work of game creator Ken Levine who I believe thinks a lot about architecture and community creation in his storyelling. A future DamiLee worthy video topic perhaps?

@Carmela-bixoxo Ай бұрын

Does Howl's Moving Castle remind anyone of the Walking Cities

@LeCVSUVL Ай бұрын

The first thing that came to my mind when i saw the intro

@JosephMurphyRevised Ай бұрын

that was one of the example in photo

@Gecko17k 11 күн бұрын

Very cool video, as always, Dami. 🙏🏻

@Sa1985Mr Ай бұрын

Peter Cook, Mike Webb, and David Greene have two buildings between them, neither lasting more than a few years, and entirely experimental. They were trolling. Archigram is the kind of troll only academics could have developed.

@avenuex3731 Ай бұрын

Robert Heinline I believe was the first to present the roadtown concept, not unlike the wall city. In his book The Roads Must Roll the environment and it’s benefits and hazards are interestingly explored

@marcoscaba3846 Ай бұрын

Large mobil mini cities would work on lower gravity worlds like the moon, or the planet Mercury.

@thomashiggins9320 Ай бұрын

Potentially, but they'll probably just bury them, though. Deep layers of stone and regolith solves a lot of problems.

@marcoscaba3846 Ай бұрын

@@thomashiggins9320 True, I agree with your point, but mobility is an excellent asset to have for unforeseen natural problems. Future mini cities/ factory may be able to fabricate a protective structure with a small force of robots then move on and leave the one made for future use.

@XDicer Ай бұрын

Vancouver is an example of a city where people live next to each other, aren't nomadic but where there's definitely a lack of community :'/

@S69KAI Ай бұрын

You've noticed that all these great projects have a common element. "You vill live in ze pod, and you vill be happy." I'm working on a house, the "modern barn" style is quite popular in my part of Europe and I can't imagine life without access to at least a small plot of land around it. Without it you could suffocate.

@sindre. Ай бұрын

The epic-ness is being amped up both in production and concepts presented! ❤️‍🔥

@jaredoz957 Ай бұрын

2 things..... 1. We need a Dami award.... for best "insert category " award. Best melodramatic NNNOOOOooooo, Best impersonation of a vague east coast construction worker, and the coveted Best Eye Twitch. 2. More specific to this video, I couldn't help thinking about Isaac Asimov's Nemesis. The evaluation of how nomadic structures could be segregated to how they will most likely be segregated is what I think he envisioned our future on orbital platforms will be. How will a community react when there is a new needful resource.... Thank you for posting, your insights are always thought provoking.

@novapixels Ай бұрын

Dami, you really take architecture creativity to another level! Thanks for all the research and storytelling you’ve put in this video!

@psiga Ай бұрын

Aspiring Digital Nomad here, and I don't sweat the sense of community, because I have a small cadre of friends whom I've known for near-about twenty years now, and we stay in touch every day on a Discord server that feels like our own little treehouse Breakfast Club pocket dimension. It'll be hard for me to make friends in new places, not because it's hard to meet new people (I have made friends easily since preschool onward, and roll with the halo effect of being a rockstar-pretty big D'd genius with sparkly blue eyes), but because why would I need to slog through the grind of making new friends who don't speak my language and may be anywhere from one to five standard deviations away from my severely-gifted IQ. Some day my treehouse, my Smile Hi Club, will grow quiet and cold. But I know that attachment leads to suffering, and clinging to saudades will hurt more than making those new friends, finding or founding that new tribe. Thanks for the think-piece, Dami. I really like your mind! ^‿^

@FredsTech1 Ай бұрын

Amazing as always! Thank you

@JosephCarven Ай бұрын

Waited for 10 minutes for you to mention Snowpiercer) Thank you! I love your videos!

@eylulbasakcetinkanat4352 Ай бұрын

As a Turk, I am so happy to see Yurts being addressed in the architectural field. When you asked “does something like this even exist?” I was like “YAASSSS GIRLLL” 😂😂😂

@ismirdochegal4804 Ай бұрын

The first question should not be: "moving or static?" but "why would you want to move?". A wandering city leaves the following problems in its wake: If people don't feel connected to a place, they clutter it up. After all, they no longer have to clean it out. Such a group of people can quickly become migratory locusts. Destroying the environment and exploiting all resources until there is nothing left and then they just pack up and move on to the next area. I don't want that.

@samforsyth Ай бұрын

instant watch. love your videos!

@Exgrmbl Ай бұрын

why was it not made? because it's pointless just a cool fantasy, like flying cars.

@AI.Overlord.X Ай бұрын

Break down a flying car by each element. It's airplanes..

@leejerrett8268 7 күн бұрын

We have flying cars; they are called helicopters.

@BoochoMcfly Ай бұрын

Your videos remind me of why I love architecture. Thank you for making these!

@paladinprime9928 Ай бұрын

This reminds me of a project/ ongoing fiction that I did as a kid. A land train (think akin to the big Arctic ones) that would serve as the core of a mobile community. Some of the cars could be combined when stationary to create larger, vital service centers (food, medical care, scientific research, ECT) and the residents followed the main train in their own converted vehicles/ mobile homes. Thank you for bringing back those happy memories.

@Walls2008 Ай бұрын

My 12 year old son made a really astute observation when looking at the mobile city growing its own crops - "That's not going to work, you need bees." It speaks to the reality that a working network of ecosystems is necessary to develop land, otherwise it is just more hopelessly exploited. None of the concepts mentioned seem to consider this; instead, success seems to rely on working ecosystems already being there, and the nomads just 'dipping in and out' as they need. Very much food for thought, I felt. An excellent video, many thanks. (Ain't he smart?!)

@Kira-zy2ro Ай бұрын

just have a bunch of bee keepers on board. When the colonies swarm they can spread wild bees around....

@0o0ification Ай бұрын

Modern beekeepers actually do re-locate around the USA according to the season. Check on the logistics of the California Almond harvest for more insight 😊

@PoPeepo_ Ай бұрын

Chrome Shelled Regios lookin

@5pac3man Ай бұрын

Another great video, Dami! Thank you!

@conoralguire6319 Ай бұрын

I cannot express how much I love watching someone so passionate about a topic express that passion- easily one of my favorite channels lately💕💕 keep doing you!! We love it!!!

@jandraelune1 Ай бұрын

The game Frostpunk has an update that allows relocating the city on to a moving platform, but the core of the first city is a huge furnace.

@Ronsonpeters Ай бұрын

wait is this only an update on pc? I play on PlayStation

@reikenzan1916 Ай бұрын

Frostpunk LETS YOU SHIFT THE CITY YOU SURE ABOUT THAT FAM????!??!!

@chaomatic5328 Ай бұрын

No it doesn't. Source: I own the game

@subdamov Ай бұрын

You are my favourite KZfaqr Dami!

@Vernand1 Ай бұрын

You neglected to mention how the symbiosis between the individual and the community works the other way as well. If a person feels like they aren't respected by the community, they won't respect it back, and possibly leave if it's bad enough. Being nomadic is only appealing if you have no emotional connection to the people and places you are leaving behind. Throwing around the idea that millions of people are left to wander the earth with no respect to the people they're trespassing through is a harmless idea, but really dystopian if it becomes anything more than a hypothetical.

@ezehbomote6384 Ай бұрын

Kino's adventure shows some representation of a couple of the concepts mentioned and the possible issues associated. Plus it's a cool anime. Love your videos.