I think H.G. Wells would be rather impressed with Metropolis if he had grown up with the popular movies of today ;-) > That vertical city of the future we know

I think H.G. Wells would be rather impressed with Metropolis if he had grown up with the popular movies of today ;-) > That vertical city of the future we know now is, to put it mildly, highly improbable. Interestingly, in his own movie, "Things to come" from 1936, we see that exact same idea.