Offworld Colonies of the Canadian North
http://www.bldgblog.com/2017/02/offworld-colonies-of-the-canadian-north/ [www.bldgblog.com]
2017-02-22 17:20
In any other scenario, a weather-controlling super-wall would sound like pure science fiction. But extreme environments such as those found in the far north are, by necessity, laboratories of architectural innovation, requiring the invention of new, often quite radical, context-appropriate building types.
A dystopian scenario in which an entire Arctic—or, in the future, Martian—city might be abandoned and shut down overnight for lack of sufficient economic returns is not altogether implausible. It is urbanism by stock price and spreadsheet.