Mars City States - New Societies for a New World - BOOK from the Mars Society

[AU1.52]

I am a member of the Mars Society. They just published a book on possible future Mars City's and how a Mars Civilization might look over the next 125 years.

So far I have just scratched the surface of the book (kindle version) but it looks very good so far.

Here is the overview shared with the members:


Mars City State Designs Book Published!

The Mars Society is proud to announce that its book, “Mars City States: New Societies for a New World”, has now been published. Edited by Frank Crossman, the new publication contains the twenty top designs for a one million personMars city state and is now on sale in both paperback and kindle formats.

People will soon be able to go to the Red Planet. But that very possibility opens a still more interesting – indeed truly grand – question: What will we create on Mars?

It was to answer this question that the Mars Society sponsored its Mars City State Design Competition in early 2020. The challenge: Design a city state for 1 million people on Mars. The prizes: $10,000 and a grand trophy for the best design, with lesser prizes and trophies on down to Fifth. The designs had to take into account all aspects of the city: its technical basis, its economic foundation, its social and political system, and its architectural aesthetics. If a city is to succeed and grow, it will need to be a place that people will want to move to. How can we create such cities on Mars?

The response to the challenge was fantastic, with 176 teams from all over the world entering the fray. All twenty of the semi-finalist, finalist, and top five winning designs are presented in this volume.

The range of creative ideas is extraordinary, collectively representing an intellectual banquet, a feast for thought, that will be of enduring value for all those who will help initiate human civilization on Mars, and innumerable new worlds beyond.

[Charlotte Bridgestone]

Oh, thank you for mentioning this book! I am interested in Mars expeditions very much so its possible cities pictures are very attractive to me. Sometimes I also think about how would such cities be look like? I hope in this book I will find a lot of examples and maybe some of those projects will be used in future? 

[AU1.52]

From my brief read so far they going into quite some depth, so yes.

[Alberto-Girardi]

From my brief read so far they going into quite some depth, so yes.

This books looks intersting, as the other Mars Society projects.

I'd like that a "Moon Society" existed too, because the I think that Moon colonization will came first, before Mars.