The creative ideas presented in the previous chapter offer important lessons to inform the planning process for the first city on Mars. Other plans for humans to live off of Earth are equally valuable. In this chapter, I offer some particularly compelling examples, but do not promise anything nearing comprehensiveness. Such a task would require an entire book in and of itself. Instead, this chapter is a concise overview of a select few plans. It begins with three buckets: serious plans developed by credentialed planning and engineering professionals and published in well-regarded outlets; perhaps slightly less serious plans published in less well-regarded outlets; and lastly, plans depicted in popular media like novels and movies. Like the previous chapter, I present key details for each plan and offer analysis of the major infrastructure, housing, architecture, and other dimensions, and conclude with a summary assessment of how the examples might shed light on a plan for a Martian city. In Chapter 2, I provided an overview of space exploration over the last seven decades and reviewed some plans for off-world living, including the ISS and the Artemis Plan for the Moon. Any plans reviewed in Chapter 2 will not be reiterated here.
Off-World Planning Precedents
Springer Praxis Books(formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet ; Kapitel : 10 ; 187-206
2023-02-02
20 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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