If there ’s one affair that scifi has shown us , it ’s that we do n’t have to expect to gossip cities of tomorrow . Here are some of our favorite futuristic cities from comic books .
Oolong Island
Does an island numeration as a city ? Possibly not , but as anyone who read DC Comics ’ 52 knows , Oolong is no average island . Populated almost entirely by unrestrained scientist ( and maybe a brace of reasonable ace , too ) , Oolong Island is a stead where the old laws ( of physics ) no longer apply , and there ’s no such affair as a bad scientific breakthrough , only one that needs to be stopped from destroying the Earth as we bang it by nonmigratory superteam , the Doom Patrol . But what else could you gestate from a place where scientists are encouraged to mollycoddle in mind - modify substances to further free their minds ?
Platinum apartment
Whereas the real world has Silicon Valley , former Batgirl Barbara Gordon and herBirds of Preyhave Platinum Flats , which proclaims itself as “ America ’s gamy - technical school Capital ” and home to all style of upstart start - ups like YouSpace , MacroWare , NetCracker , Findster ( Well , it is an alternating earthly concern , after all ) and has eradicated problem like crime and urban radioactive decay thanks to its well - heeled and imaginative inhabitants . well living through technology indeed .
Haven
What ’s the quickest way to suddenly have a metropolis full of advanced technology in your backyard ? Have an alien spacecraft crash into it . That ’s what materialize in the DC Universe ’s adaptation of California ( As if having Green Lantern ’s “ Coast City ” midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles was n’t enough ) , which dead found itself with an superfluous - terrestrial prison house full of political prisoner dump onto its coast in the early ‘ 2000s series Haven . On the plus side , the US Government granted them city status , in exchange for some of their tasty new engineering science . Let ’s just make on that whole “ retro - engineering so we can use it without tentacle ” thing , shall we ?
Big Town
In 2000 , Marvel Comics wondered what would ’ve happened if , instead of using their genius to fight crime , Reed Richards , Tony Stark and the rest of their superheroic scientist pal actually invented things to benefit bon ton . According toFantastic Four : Big Town , the result is a futuristic New York , which rapidly becomes the center of civilisation , expands to include nearby cities in other states , and destabilise fellowship as we know it . But , on the positive side , unstable mote really cut down on your laundry costs .
Atlantis
Whether it ’s Marvel or DC Comics , there ’s an undersea urban center of Atlantis , and they ’re more technologically ripe than us . Marvel ’s Atlanteans prefer to travel is super - science submarines while they consider their latest design to obtrude upon the surface universe for whatever unlikely reason they ’ve been take in into believing this calendar week , while DC ’s undersea indweller have the eminence of having a civilisation that started long before man had even crawl from the ocean , and therefore having a head - start on the rest of us . Of of course , if they were really that smart , they ’d have mold out how to stay out of the water for more than an 60 minutes at a time , but apparently they were too busy telepathically communicating with whale to be put out by such thoughts .
Attilan
possibly the only citizenry who can treat with the world of tomorrow today are scientifically - advanced themselves … like Marvel Comics ’ Inhumans , whose millennia - previous urban center is so advanced that it has not only withstood being transport throughout space ( literally ; for awhile , it existed on the moon ) but has also bear witness capable of physically transform itself into a spaceship when involve be . See ? mankind terminate up turning scientifically - advanced cultures into disasters , but Inhumans are apparently smart enough to twist modification to their advantage .
Electropolis
Dean Motter ’s most late take on the idea of the futuristic metropolis ( from his 1999 serial publication of the same name ) offered a different take on the idea : the retrofuturistic urban center , founded on decades old theme about the future that’re still before of their clock time . “ duomo - sized Van Der Graaf generators and tower Strickfadden machines ” may sound oddly outdated to us now , but this city still managed to have golem detectives , aviate elevator car and an on - clip metro service unlike the advanced existence we populate in .
Metropolis
What better home for the Man of Tomorrow than the ego - declare City of Tomorrow ? Superman ’s adopted hometown may be well known for its major metropolitan newspaper publisher , but consider all of the mad scientists that Superman faces on a unconstipated basis , to say nothing of the alien engineering , scientific establishments to clean up after superbattles and even the wonderfully - namedScience Police , and it ’s moderately readable that there ’s more to this forward - call back city than depending on print media . The city even has a street dedicated to scientific institutions calledThe Avenue of Tomorrow . What could be more consummate than that ?
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