Holy Cow!

In Arthur C. Clarke's, The Exploration of Space (1951), the Mars colony 100 years in the future was envisioned to be a neo-classical paradise with boulevards and roundabouts in a series of domes.

While, frankly, a totally inefficient use of scarce resources, what better way to make a "place" than this? Hello tourists! The buildings are made of local materials- Marsite?

No doubt, Mars colonies will have to market themselves on the interplanetary destinations A-list. That means property rights, too.

While the following images will demonstrate more current concepts of a Martian base, let's hope some enterprising designer among the real colonists of the 21st Century have some of Clarke in the back of their minds :)