My project: create an extremely easy to use networked cad which anyone can use to explore urbanistic concepts of all degrees of scale and complexity.


I am tracking my several projects at http://bloggerslogatanurbanistslogs.blogspot.com/.

Initial Project: a web site where people can publish their geographical observation, within a rational framework.

My Questions:

Is there some sort of standard practice for developing projects of this type?

While I call myself an urbanist, I am operating completely outside of the native environment for urbanists: academia and business. Maybe I need to learn more about urbanism as it is being practiced in those environments.

An answer to the question "what's happening" could be structured as follows:
There are players.
The players work on projects.
Describe the projects.
To learn about the projects, ask the players.
The place to find players is at schools.

In this medium, blogs, I can build a catalog of urbanistic projects.
A player may have inactive or nascent projects.
The goal would be to activate such a project.
Information about active projects would be the resource to help players activate new ideas.

It is important that any display of information be fully comprehensible at a glance.
Thus, possibly, a list of active projects. A separate list of nascent and inactive projects.
Each entry links to a description of the project.