Architects Vie to Design the City of the Future--On the Moon [Slide Show]

BOSTON--The moon has long loomed large as the next logical site for human expansion, a frontier land still lightly explored but visible to all throughout human history. With the recent discovery of a significant volume of water on the lunar surface, the idea of the moon as a livable habitat has become just that much more plausible. A new competition, Moon Capital , turned the question of what that habitat will look like over to the imagination of architects, engineers and artists. Let's say it is the year 2069, exactly a century after the first lunar landing . The colony has finally been built. What does it look like? What do the moon-dwellers need both to survive and to enjoy their new surroundings? [More]

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