Speaking of space settlements, there often comes up the question of what are the best earth analogs. Communities on small islands, the early New World settlements, and Antarctic science bases are typical suggestions. A New Scientist article suggests Canadian Arctic mining towns. Such towns can form very quickly in very isolated and difficult environments – and sometimes disappear very quickly as well: New Urbanist: Off-world colonies of the Canadian Arctic – New Scientist.

An example mentioned is Fermont, Quebec, which is known

for the huge self-contained structure containing apartments, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side. The structure was designed to be a windscreen to the rest of the town. It permits residents (other than mine workers) to never leave the building during the long winter, which usually lasts about seven months. The town, designed by Maurice Desnoyers and Norbert Schoenauer, was inspired by similar projects in Sweden designed by Ralph Erskine, notably that of Svappavaara, a copper mining town in Sweden. The building measures 1.3 kilometres (4,300 ft) long and stands 50 metres (160 ft) high.[4] [Wikipedia]

The V-shaped structure can be seen in this image:

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From the New Scientist article:

The town is also home to an extraordinary architectural feature: a residential megastructure whose explicit purpose is to redirect the local weather. Known as the Mur-écran or “windscreen”, this structure is an astonishing 1.3 kilometres in length, shaped roughly like a horizontal V or chevron. Think of it as a climatological Maginot Line, built to resist the howling, near-constant northern winds.

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However, [Elon Musk] is not talking about building a Martian version of London or Paris. In a sense, we are already experimenting with off-world colonisation – only we are doing it in the windswept villages and extraction sites of the Canadian north.