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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 needs to be accessible on a regular basis continuously. This is as such already a ...

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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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WhereCampEU 2012

Tuesday 8 May 2012
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I was at the third WhereCampEU “unconference” which took place in Amsterdam over the last weekend of April, following previous editions in London and Berlin which I was also...

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Mapping City Flows as Blood

Tuesday 8 May 2012
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Blood is everywhere when it comes to describing cities. We have arterial roads, pulsing transport flows, and cities with different metabolisms. Thanks to great new datasets and visualisation software...

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