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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.
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Sarah Fecht runs the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet blog. This article was adapted with permission from The Future of Public Space, the second volume of SOM Thinkers, a series of books that poses provocative questions about design and architecture from perspectives outside its professional culture.