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/2022/04/18/next-stop-mars

A line drawing of Justin Hollander

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.”

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

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.