{"group":"life","pic":"living/pics/oldtown-city.webp","question":"Who lives here, and where did the city begin?","answer":"Settlers from all over Earth, and families raising children who have never known anywhere else. The whole city grew out from one small square, the Old town, where the first crew made their home.","play":{"label":"Meet the settlers","href":"play/?era=city&light=dusk"},"earth_mars":{"earth":{"head":"Towns grow over centuries"},"mars":{"head":"A city grows from one square"},"pics":{"earth":"living/pics/em-oldtown-earth.webp","mars":"living/pics/em-oldtown-mars.webp"},"rows":[{"label":"How it began","icon":"house","earth":"Most towns grew slowly round a river, a road or a market.","mars":"Arcadia City grew out from the first crew's buried homes, a patch {mods_a} by {mods_b} m."},{"label":"Getting about","icon":"walk","earth":"Roads and cars spread towns over many kilometres.","mars":"The whole City is {city_a} by {city_b} m: about {city_walk} minutes' walk end to end, all indoors."}]},"pin":[0.9,0.42],"close":{"title":"The ship that stayed","line":"The first ship landed on bare ground {fl_km} km south of the town, before anyone lived here, and never flew again.","parts":[{"id":"ship","name":"Six legs on bare ground","text":"It stands where it touched down, its footpads pressed into the soil, stripped for parts the town needed."},{"id":"scorch","name":"The blast circle","text":"Its engines scoured a dark circle into the plain, with streaks running out like rays and stones flung into a ring."},{"id":"ring","name":"A place people visit","text":"A ring of posts, a plaque on a low stone and the crew lift up to the door."}]},"tiles_title":"The Old town","tiles":[{"icon":"square","title":"Where it began","text":"The first crew's homes lie buried under the square, and the oldest rows spread round them: a patch of ground {core_a} m across that the whole city grew from."},{"icon":"window","title":"The South window","text":"The city's first viewing room looks out over the port. At dusk neighbours gather there to watch the sky turn blue."},{"icon":"gate","title":"The port gate","text":"Everyone arrives here, along the straight road from the pads {port_km} km away, with the clinic right beside it."},{"icon":"ship","title":"First Landing","text":"{fl_km} km out on the plain the first ship still stands where it landed, visited like a monument."}],"plan":{"title":"How the city grew","line":"The City's plan, drawn to scale. Everything grew out from the Old town, keeping its face towards the port.","labels":{"town-core":"Old town","first-modules":"First homes","civic-spine":"Middle district","ne-quarter":"Homes","sw-quarter":"Homes","farm-belt":"Farm belt","port-gate":"Port gate","vr-south":"South window"},"port":"To the port","scale":"200 m"},"reach":{"title":"Everything within a walk","line":"Distances from the first homes, drawn to scale, with the time a steady walk takes.","stops":[{"id":"port-gate","name":"Port gate"},{"id":"city","name":"Far corner of the City"},{"id":"pad","name":"Nearest pad"},{"id":"first-landing","name":"First Landing"}],"min":"{m} min","km":"km"},"scene":{"pic":"living/pics/scene-oldtown.webp","look":"04-01-01","shot":"old_town","focus":"50% 50%","spots":[{"at":[0.53,0.52]},{"at":[0.87,0.7]},{"at":[0.18,0.27]},{"at":[0.093,0.1]}]},"proof":{"pic":"living/people/oldtown-proof.webp","place":"Esperanza Base, Antarctica","when":"Since {esp_date}","head":"The first child of a new land","credit":"Photo: Dr. David Demer, NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC/AMLR (CC BY 2.0)"},"fact":"On {esp_date}, Emilio Palma was born at Esperanza Base, the first person known to be born in Antarctica. At least {esp_more} more children have been born there since, and the base runs its own school.","quiz":[{"q":"Where did Arcadia City begin?","a":["At the first crew's homes, under the Old town's square","At First Landing, out on the plain","Under the first glass dome"],"why":"The first crew's homes are buried at the city's centre. Everything else grew out from that square, {core_a} m across.","more":"In {kir_year}, Kiruna in Sweden decided to move its whole town centre {kir_km} km east. Its church was moved in one piece in {kir_church}.","cite":"04-01-01 FC-03, F-14","from":"fix","fig":0,"icon":"house"},{"q":"Why does First Landing stand alone, {fl_km} km out on the plain?","a":["It landed on bare ground before the town existed, and stayed","It was towed there to make room","Ships may not stand near homes"],"why":"The first ship touched down on natural ground to the south and never flew again. The pads and the town came after it.","more":"Starbase in Texas, the home of Starship, became a city in {sb_year}, with about {sb_pop} residents.","cite":"04-01-01 FC-10, F-05","from":"problem","fig":0,"icon":"rocket"},{"q":"How long does it take to walk the City end to end, indoors?","a":["About {city_walk} minutes","About an hour","Most of a day"],"why":"The City is {city_b} m at its longest, and a steady walk covers {walk_ms} m a second.","more":"Montreal's Underground City has {reso_km} km of tunnels, used by nearly {reso_users} people every day.","cite":"04-01-01 F-18, F-11","from":"why","fig":0,"icon":"walk"}],"notes":[{"beat":"fix","text":"In Coober Pedy, an opal-mining town in the Australian desert, many of its {cp_pop} people live in homes dug into the hillsides, at the same comfortable temperature all year.","cite":"04-01-01 F-09"}],"everyday":{"title":"A day among neighbours","items":[{"time":"08:10","head":"Breakfast on the square","text":"The café on your square opens under the water roof, and the same friendly faces wave from the same tables.","tag":"{city_walk} min to anywhere","pic":"living/pics/oldtown-city.webp","pos":"40% 60%"},{"time":"13:20","head":"Lunch in the Old town","text":"The oldest halls on Mars sit round the square where the first crew made their home.","tag":"{core_a} m Old town","pic":"living/pics/scene-oldtown.webp","pos":"53% 52%"},{"time":"19:40","head":"Sunset at the South window","text":"Neighbours gather at the first viewing room as the sky turns blue round the setting Sun over the port.","tag":"{fl_km} km to First Landing","pic":"living/pics/scene-oldtown.webp","pos":"87% 70%"}]},"living":"The best thing here is the people. Everyone you meet chose to come, and the children growing up here have never known anywhere else. In the evenings we walk through the Old town, past the square where the first crew lived, and out to the South window to watch the ships.","from":"From the Old town","later":{"pics":{"city":"living/pics/oldtown-city.webp","far":"living/pics/oldtown-far.webp"},"city":{"tag":"The first neighbours","text":"Settlers from all over Earth live in the buried rows round the Old town, and the first dome fills with homes, cafés and families."},"far":{"tag":"A city of families","text":"Three full domes with parks and a lake, and the Old town kept as it was: the quarter where the city began."}}}