Colony Infrastructure over time

I was walking the streets of Chelsea Ma today and walked a functioning coble stone str. and tar mac street. Cobble stones are of course old school but the road remains and often as not is in better condition than the other roads in its vicinity (which is mostly zoned industrial) and they all take a beating from tractor trailer rigs.<br /><br />It got me thinking about space colonies. Forget the Frontier for a moment where the fruits of an advanced industrial civilization are just a few void jumps away, but think about a 40 LY expedition from earth- Expedition will have a certain ammount of space and mass dedicated to support and set up of the colony but over time that colony will run out of the fruits of advanced industry and turn to different methods.<br /><br />In a sci fi setting you'd get the amazing &quot;ceramacrete&quot; streets poured at the founding then you could have dirt roads or cobble stones or what ever the local industry can produce. <br /><br />Its a huge impact on the setting. clearly its more desirable to have your dwelling on the ceramacret street as apposed to the dirt road or the highly durable but rather noisy and hard on the vehicle cobble stone.<br /><br />Everything is impacted, housing, utilities, vehicles etc. its even more so impacted if the original materials are the product of &quot;super science&quot;