Cities in space - Singles or clusters?

I tend to agree, there is going to be parts of space that are valuable and
clusters and super clusters are going to grow up there, the main problem we
have (I think) is that we do not think large enough but with no weather and
micro-gravity will allow us to build things that at the moment would sound
like we were on LSD or something like that when we came up with them. My big
worry is that just because some places are valuable because of where they
are or what they have will lead to conflict.

Think about this, one hab is a city, 5 a large state, 10 a country, 100 and
you have a super power, 1000 and now you are talking about the equivalent to
a planet (1000 habs @ 10 million per hab = 10 billion people). This raises
the question of how close you can place the habs? How many habs can you put
in a given volume of space?

Darren Brown

From: terrierkeeper
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:16:38 -0000
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Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: Cities in space - Singles or clusters?

L4 and L5 are going to be supercontinents.

Excuse me for romantic visions but I imagine space islands much more
like islands in space like the Puget sound of my childhood. Linked by
a system of Ferries with specific routes.

Some people may wish to keep their communities small and retain the
Island Two configuration. Others may wish to advance to Island Threes
and build even larger Island Fours.

How they live inside is up to the communities but I surmise that an
Island Three can be broken down into Twelve Counties, each with its
own council and mayor. And though I believe our current American
system is top heavy, each Island three can be counted as a state. A
collection of Island Twos can form a state. States can form to gather
to form natians. Some may wish to go it alone.

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