Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Mars won’t get cities because it becomes easy to live there. It gets cities because people stay. We explore how the first fragile outposts become homes, economies, neighborhoods, and civilization.

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Credits:
The First Martian Cities: Planning Habitats
Editors: Phil Leichauer
Graphics: Bryan Versteeg
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Music by Epidemic Sound: nebula.tv/epidemic
Stellardrone & Chris Zabriskie

ChaptersChapters
0:00 Intro
3:13 The Planning Threshold
10:14 Early Entrepreneurs
17:40 Ares Inception
29:44 Tierzoo