Walking city
The Walking City project was born in 1964 as a vision by the British Archigram architects group.
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Ron Herron was in charge of the development, the drawings and collages of this project . The original working title "Cities: Moving", which can still be read on early drawings, only changed to "Walking City" after the publication, as many viewers were of the opinion that the robotic structures looked as if they could " go".
Was inspired Walking City, among others, the theory of intelligent machine for living by Le Corbusier , should meet its inhabitants on compressed space all needs. Archigram went one step further and developed a mobile shell that should not be tied to a fixed location, but always moved to where, for example, the labor force of its roughly 20,000 residents was needed.
The fact that buildings of enormous heights and sizes can "move serenely and serenely through the landscape" (Archigram) was already proven back then by the mobile rocket launch pad structures from Cape Kennedy , which reached a height of forty-story buildings.
In the context of an impending nuclear war during the Cold War , the concept of mobile cities seemed to be a sensible alternative, as their location was variable and thus a more difficult target. A use as a mobile reception center on the outskirts of destroyed cities also seemed conceivable.