What City Design Will Future Space Colonies Have?

Have you ever consider what kind of city design aneed to break apart its components and use them
future space colonies will have? If we are going tofor other things, such as fertilizer to grow plants,
put tens of thousands of people all living in a spacewhich will also take the carbon dioxide and make it
colony on Mars then obviously the city will have tointo oxygen, while providing food to eat.
be designed in a much different way than theThere are many options for power and these must
surface cities are designed for human civilizations onalso be considered. Solar energy makes a lot of
earth.sense and electronic devices that use LED and other
It makes sense that future space colonies will havedevices, which are very low wattage will be needed.
much of the colony built underground instead of onOf course with new materials it may be smart to use
the surface. The most important thing in a spacenuclear energy, which is a clean energy and will
colony of course will be the recycling of all material toprovide nearly unlimited power for rather large size
be used over and over again and a way to makecities or human colonies on other planets or moons.
sure that there will be plenty of oxygen to breatheIf you are interested in such things and perhaps you
and water to drink.have worked with SimCity in the past designing
In human civilizations on earth we have more gravity,civilizations on a computer; well then you might like to
but any human civilization on Mars or the moon willknow that NASA is currently having a contest for
have less gravity and therefore things like runningthose who wish to design futuristic space colonies.
water using gravity or drainage may not work as wellThis might be your chance to help the future and the
and it will be harder to get the human waste to theforward progression of the human species. Please
area of the reclamation facilities. These facilities areconsider all this in 2006.