Human Relationships in a Habitat

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Lucio de Souza Coelho
wrote:

> - Monolithic Building: on Earth, a city can grow incrementally.
You already
> have a ground where you can build things, and you just need to add
houses,
> stores, factories, etc., as needed. In space, you need to first
build not
> only the "ground" (the inner surface of your colony), but also
your
> atmosphere and your shielding.

And life support system such as the eco-torus, the water
distribution system, the sewers, the whole power generation and
distribution system, the waste management system, the agricultural
system and all this before one person can live in the Habitat.

That's a major investment, and I think that
> construction of a colony will be comparable to the construction of
a planned
> city. And through history we can see that planned cities
(Washington,
> Braslia, Belo Horizonte, etc) are neither frequent nor cheap, and
so my gut
> feeling is that building a new space colony will be a major
economic effort
> and the replication rate will be decades instead of years. That
would hold
> even for the "matrix" idea that I exposed recently.

I agree. Also, can a Habitat be built with no interior buildings and
then have them added later? What would that do to the Habitat
rotation and load balancing? Do you have to build equally around the
Habitat in order not to have too much mass on one side of the
Habitat? If so, then your city can't grow organically, it'll have to
grow in a planned progression.

Perhaps the interior buildings will have to be built before anyone
moves in.

TangoMan