Justin Hollander, PhD, FAICP, makes the case for why planners’ expertise should shape cities and settlements in outer space. https://www.planning.org/planning/2025/may/planning-the-red-planet
American Planning Association: Planning the Red Planet
Posted by Justin Hollander on November 21, 2025
https://sites.tufts.edu/urbanmars/2025/11/21/american-planning-association-planning-the-red-planet/
Tufts Now: Next Stop Mars
How to Design a Martian City
Building future Mars settlements will require help from all types of experts—not just astrophysicists and entrepreneurs. SpaceX and Tesla CEO “Elon Musk is a really smart guy and everything,” said Tufts Professor Justin Hollander, A96, “but he doesn’t know anything about urban planning.”
https://now.tufts.edu/2023/02/03/how-build-first-city-mars
Posted by Justin Hollander on April 22, 2022
https://sites.tufts.edu/urbanmars/2022/04/22/tufts-now-next-stop-mars/
CO.DESIGN: How Should We Design Cities on Mars? by Sarah Fect
[Source Photos: ESA, NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS]
Co.Design: How Should We Design Cities on Mars? by Sarah Fect
“The challenges of living on Mars will no doubt rewrite some of the rules of urban design. But by redefining how we interact with nature–and with ourselves–space colonization offers a broader chance to remake urbanism itself, writes the Earth Institute’s Sarah Fecht.”
Posted by Ezri A. Horne on March 1, 2018
https://sites.tufts.edu/urbanmars/2018/03/01/74/
WIRED: “If architects designed our life on Mars, it would look like this” by Vas Panagiopoulos
WIRED: If architects designed our life on Mars, it would look like this by Vas Panagiopoulos
Designers are thinking differently to plan for future human settlements on Mars at city-scale
Posted by Ezri A. Horne on November 5, 2017
https://sites.tufts.edu/urbanmars/2017/11/05/wired-if-architects-designed-our-life-on-mars-it-would-look-like-this/
Metropolis Mag: How to Design Cities on Mars? A New Think Tank Has Some Awesome Ideas by Vas Panagiotopoulos
Metropolis Mag: How to Design Cities on Mars? A New Think Tank Has Some Awesome Ideas by Vas Panagiotopoulos
Photo by NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), 2003
Mars City Design differentiates itself from those other initiatives by encouraging proposals that put aeshetics, well-being, and urban-thinking first.
Posted by Ezri A. Horne on July 21, 2017
https://sites.tufts.edu/urbanmars/2017/07/21/metropolis-mag-how-to-design-cities-on-mars-a-new-think-tank-has-some-awesome-ideas/