Timeline for Urban Planning on a Tidally Locked World
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| Mar 19, 2023 at 18:14 | comment | added | JBH | @ConnorHiggins Especially if you hang disco balls now and again. 😁 | |
| Mar 16, 2023 at 16:38 | comment | added | Wavedash | That is a good suggestion as well. Subtle incorporation of mirrors and reflective building materials would be a low-tech and low-energy way to help mitigate the problem. Having buildings incorporate sloping reflective overhangs to help illuminate the street might even create a unique and aesthetically pleasing architectural style. | |
| Mar 16, 2023 at 7:03 | comment | added | Krišjānis Liepiņš | @ConnorHiggins, you may consider the use of mirrors and other methods of directing sunlight where it's needed. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 19:44 | comment | added | JBH | @ConnorHiggins Vitamin D can be acquired in multiple ways. Plant lights provide a greater spectrum. In reality, you don't have much of a choice. The back side of a building will always be in shadow. You need to figure out a synthetic solution. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 18:38 | comment | added | Wavedash | Thats exactly my concern lol, I don't want my cities to be dystopias where only the rich live in the light. Sounds abysmal. I do think there's ways to design more smartly, just trying to find out how. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 18:36 | comment | added | Questor | Sounds like large cities will have shadowed slums... And the rich will live sunward. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 18:31 | comment | added | Wavedash | Sunlight is a bit different, and has a number of health impacts. Most notably on Vitamin D. Some are more debated than others but are in the literature (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder), however it is very much considered to have health impacts ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400257. And likewise there's the mental impacts and personal/cultural preferences to not want to live in the dark. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 18:18 | comment | added | JBH | @ConnorHiggins Am I missing something? What do humans do today to overcome "permanent" darkness in the middle of the night? They turn on the lights. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 18:11 | comment | added | Wavedash | Those would be helpful for buildings in daylight and would be very useful! I was more concerned about mitigating buildings in a city leaving other buildings (literally, and permanently) in their shadow. Something which I was worried about happening in densely built cities with large buildings. | |
| Mar 15, 2023 at 18:00 | history | answered | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |