Our Urbanism Maps - beta v.1

Vakhtang and Sahand... I didn't copy your maps off your drive... so please post them.

societal influence

- based on their foundational usefulness and societal influence.

• World Wide Web: besides making the Internet easier to use, it was also free whereas Gopher would no longer be free to use.
• Java: a programming language that is both open source and non-platform specific.
• Linux: Forced Microsoft, a monopoly, to compete with a free and ever-improving operation system. Also brought awareness to the concept of open source.
• PageRank: an improved search engine algorithm based on the assumption that better quality webpages are linked to more often.

Wikis: web pages that can utilize collective intelligence by being editable from more than one terminal

check out visual thinking maps

follow link here

http://www.visualcomplexity.com

whole internet on this page

a map of the entire Internet, displaying the owner of each of the 4,294,967,29 available IP addresses (i.e. grey boxes) & the exact IP addresses that are listed on the Spamhaus XBL blacklist (i.e. red dots).

see link here

New Inventions in Construction Material

- Bio steel
- High Performance Concrete
(6’x 10’ sheet just 1 inch thick that bends as it continues to support a 2,000 lb car.)
- Light transmitting Concrete
- Translucent Concrete
- Pervious Concrete
(The pavement that drinks water)
- Foamed Aluminum
- Natural Polymers
- Expandable Cement Mixture
- Rubber Sidewalks
- Plasphalt
- Light Emitting Laminated Glass
- Translucent Fabric
- Polution Reducing Cement
- Texlon Roof System (Inteligent and dynamic cladding system)
- Transparent Solar Cells / Spherical Solar Cell
- Biodegradable Plastic

Helping out with color...

Let graphic designers choose your colors correctly... use as a start
http://kuler.adobe.com/

Statistic Graphs part 5

Statistic Graphs part 4

Statistic Graphs part 3

Statistic Graphs part 2