Urban Cartography

Belorussia, 1971; again, from our good friend Fipi Lele.

greater San Francisco Bay Area, 1930s, click for larger version. Thanks as usual to fipi lele.

Chris writes:

(This comes) from this article about drawing borders more closely to the ethnic lines that exists on the ground. Not close to lots of ethnic lines for sure, but closer. Would still be chaos to implement, but any drawing of borders is. Interesting to think about given what Pakistan id doing to itself...

The Great Tree of Life - terrific Leonard Eisenberg chart of animal evolution

Washington DC in 1946

glaciation timeline

infographic on the restoration of the walled city of Chanchan, from La República

earthquake epicenters, 1904-1972

from Constantinos A. Doxiadis' Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements