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The Evolution of Subway Networks

Wednesday 16 May 2012
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Today our paper about the evolution of world city subway networks is published online in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. We compare a dozen subway networks around the world in large cities using various graph theoretic network measures. … Continue reading →

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Sponsored Space

Wednesday 16 May 2012
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Cities have always been the great spaces of commerce, trade and advertising; and recent decades...

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Book – Food for the City

Wednesday 16 May 2012
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Everybody needs to eat. Eating and sleeping are two of the very fundamental repetitive necessities of life. There is no going without it for longer periods of time. Food...

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Information Graphics

Tuesday 15 May 2012
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Taschen’s Information Graphics book is the most comprehensive I have seen concerned with modern (and historic) data visualisation. The book itself is worthy of its own infographic as it...

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TfL Why Not Walk It? Maps

Tuesday 15 May 2012
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TfL have produced a nice range of maps to promote walking instead of public transport (especially during the Olympics).  The maps use different cartography to the other walking maps...

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PGRG DISSERTATION PRIZES 2012

Monday 14 May 2012
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Tweet “Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize” This prize is named in memory of the daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of Leeds. Joanna, who was a geography...

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NYC’s Bike Share Approaches

Monday 14 May 2012
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New York City last week released a preliminary map showing the proposed sites for the launch of its bike sharing scheme, now named Citi Bike (with Citigroup being the...

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To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns

Sunday 13 May 2012
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Jason Silva’s wonderful demonstration of patterns and order across many evolving spatial systems is what our science of cities is all about: flows, interactions, dynamics, self-similiarity, hierarchy and of...

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The London Transport Network in Realtime

Thursday 10 May 2012
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Last Saturday, 5 May 2012, saw the FA Cup Final and various Olympics preparation events taking place in London, so I couldn’t help wondering was was going to happen...

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ESRI CityEngine, Lumion, and SketchUp – The Ultimate City Toolkit?

Wednesday 9 May 2012
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Over the last few weeks we have been looking at ESRI's CityEngine and how it can be used to create rapid urban scenes. As we noted it moves GIS...

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