On a low gravity planet, would it make more sense to build habitat domes or habitat sky-scrapers?

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You could do what they do in The Expanse. Spin the planet fast enough that you have artificial gravity, and build upside-down housing as you now fall away from the center.

Wouldn't that also make the surface gravity negative and rip the planet apart?

Yeah, probably? I haven't read the books, but I guess they have explanations of how they strengthen it.