The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
It’s been a wet and drab December so far – so why not escape the gloom and get into the spirit of the season with the biggest Christmas market/funfair in London? Winter Wonderland, which occupies a huge space at the eastern end of Hyde Park, stretching almost from Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner. The […]
Continue reading »The Little Globe Company is Loraine Rutt, a London-based cartographer and artist who specialises in maps created from clay, perhaps most famously crafting and hand-painting miniature porcelain globes in painstakingly precise detail. Her output is not just globe-based though, as this piece, showing London’s relief (hills and valleys) as well as its river network, both […]
Continue reading »My new book will be published on 11th December 2018 in the US and on the 8th January 2019 in the UK About the Cover: Paul Klee (1927) Partie aus G (Part of G) We cannot predict future cities, but we can … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Urban and slum areas in Nairobi (False composite image created by stacking image bands 7, 6 and 4 from the Landsat 8 satellite.Turning back to slums, we just published paper entitled “Detecting and Mapping Slums using Open Data: A Case Study in Kenya”…
Continue reading »Urban and slum areas in Nairobi (False composite image created by stacking image bands 7, 6 and 4 from the Landsat 8 satellite.Turning back to slums, we just published paper entitled “Detecting and Mapping Slums using Open Data: A Case Study in Kenya”…
Continue reading »Recently our research has started to dig deeper into social media, especially how bots diffuse information in online social networks (OSNs). To this end at the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications we had a paper…
Continue reading »Recently our research has started to dig deeper into social media, especially how bots diffuse information in online social networks (OSNs). To this end at the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications we had a paper…
Continue reading »This lovely map, hand-created by artist-cartographer Adam Dant, which was commissioned by the East End Trades Guild, is launched today at their Christmas takeover of Old Spitalfields Market – you’ll be able to pick up a free copy there. The map shows the locations of some of the more interesting traders and small businesses in […]
Continue reading »The Greater London Authority has published a data map, showing the locations within London where tree canopies can be seen from overhead. There are about as many trees as people in London, and 21% of the capital’s land area is covered by them. This is an impressive number – this must make London one of […]
Continue reading »It seems life and work is less than compatible with #content generation for this blog, so ‘why don’t I just’, I figure, ‘write a short piece about the research I have been doing in all this time’. I also figured this was a good idea, so here is the first in what I’m going to …
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Continue reading »November 24 marks 10 years since Louise Francs, Chris Church and myself set up Mapping for Change. It’s a proud moment when the social enterprise that was set out of a research project at UCL is now well established, and the work that it does is mentioned in the annual report of the Chief Medical … Continue reading 10 years of Mapping for Change
Continue reading »21st Nov 2018 PGRG Blog #15 Nik Lomax In our paper “Estimating the outcome of UKs referendum on EU membership using e-petition data and machine learning algorithms“, recently published in the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, we use novel e-petition data and machine learning algorithms to estimate the Brexit leave vote percentage for UK parliamentary constituencies. … More Mapping Brexit votes using novel e-petition data and machine learning
Continue reading »One of the joys of the Doing it Together Science project is that it provides opportunities to work closely with different partners from very different areas. One such a collaboration is with Bruno Strasser and his group at the University of Geneva who are researching citizen science from an STS/history of science perspective. Over the … Continue reading Citizen Science: Expertise, Democracy and Public Participation – Report for Swiss Science Council
Continue reading »Fostering university-public sector partnerships in the development of smart cities | News Perspectives@SMU“What are the challenges in integrating technical and social disciplines into a single research project?” “How can the ASEAN Smart Citi…
Continue reading »In the current SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter whose theme is Urban Analytics and Mobility, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak and myself have a paper entitled “Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development”. In the paper we discuss how synthetic urban area…
Continue reading »In the current SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter whose theme is Urban Analytics and Mobility, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak and myself have a paper entitled “Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development”. In the paper we discuss how synthetic urban area…
Continue reading »15th November 2018 PGRG Blog #14 Lili Xiang Attending the Third International Conference on Geographies of Education (GoE III) was really a memorable and inspiring experience for me. I am a final year PhD student from the School of Geography, University of Leeds. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a geography teacher and form … More The family get together for education geographers
Continue reading »Next in BIM: City Information Modelling (CIM) Planning & Building Control TodayBIM has radically changed the way we think about building design in terms of collaboration and visualisation. Can City Information Modelling do the same for …
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In celebration of the Christmas lights being switched on in Covent Garden this evening, we feature this lovely map of the precinct, which has been drawn by artist Adam Dant, for The Covent Gardener, a periodical that focuses on the landmarks, shops and residents and characters of London’s famous and bustling shopping and tourism heart, […]
Continue reading »I’ve mentioned in the previous posts about the introduction and conclusions chapters in the book “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy” and the chapter about citizen science in universities. The final chapter in the book that I would like to highlight is my chapter “participatory citizen science“. As Rick Bonney pointed to me, on the face … Continue reading New publication: Participatory citizen science
Continue reading »12th November, 2018 PGRG Blog #13 Jacob Fairless Nicholson Jacob Fairless Nicholson is a postgraduate researcher in his third year at King’s College London. His work charts the geographies of ‘Black education spaces’ in London 1960-1990. Jacob visited the three-day Third International Conference on Geographies of Education at Loughborough University (Monday 3rd September to … More Impressions from the Third International Conference on Geographies of Education
Continue reading »In addition to the introduction and conclusion chapters in the book “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy“, I have contributed to content chapters that are at the body of the book. Daniel Wyler, from the University of Zurich, led on the writing of the chapter “Integrating citizen science into university” and I … Continue reading New publication: Integrating citizen science into university
Continue reading »The previous post described the opening chapter of “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Policy, Science and Society“, which apart from the first 7 pages, is following a fairly standard pattern of introduction chapters – an overview of the sections and explaining the logic behind organising the chapters and the order that they appear, and description … Continue reading New publication: Citizen science to foster innovation in open science, society and policy
Continue reading »Fig. 7. Stimulus-Awareness-Activism (SA2) frameworkPreviously we have posted on how one can use new sources of data (e.g. Volunteered Geographical Information) to explore and understand the world around us, such as mass migration, urban form and …
Continue reading »Fig. 7. Stimulus-Awareness-Activism (SA2) frameworkPreviously we have posted on how one can use new sources of data (e.g. Volunteered Geographical Information) to explore and understand the world around us, such as mass migration, urban form and …
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Readers of Mapping London, and Londoners in general, will be very familiar with the striking straight lines of the Tube Map. But you probably won’t have seen this map before, which employs the same kind of schematisation to show London’s now completely vanished tram and trolleybus network (there is a tram in south London now, […]
Continue reading »As part of the editorial team of the book “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Policy, Science and Society“, I have contributed by working with the authors of chapters, organising the orders of the chapters, managing the peer review process, and so on. In addition, I was involved in the writing to 4 chapters out of … Continue reading New publication: Innovation in open science, society and policy – setting the agenda for citizen science
Continue reading »There are many reviews of agent-based modeling platforms (e.g. Abar et al., 2017; Kravari and Bassiliades, 2015; Castle and Crooks, 2006) but rarely do you see movies describing how such platforms have developed or where they are heading. Recentl…
Continue reading »There are many reviews of agent-based modeling platforms (e.g. Abar et al., 2017; Kravari and Bassiliades, 2015; Castle and Crooks, 2006) but rarely do you see movies describing how such platforms have developed or where they are heading. Recentl…
Continue reading »Technology is changing what it means to be creative – here’s how Wired.co.ukInnovation is changing what it means to be creative. Here, some of the world’s top thinkers discuss how to blend technology with creativity for the benefit of …
Continue reading »At the beginning of the year, as part of my work at UCL and together with members of the Extreme Citizen Science group, I launched a new postgraduate level course “Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing“. We have opened it for distance learners on the UCL eXtend platform. As a postgraduate course, it required … Continue reading Five online training modules on citizen science
Continue reading »UCL is marking its sustainability week between 29th October and 4th November. As part of the activities to mark the Green UCL initiative. I was interviewed to this video, together with other researchers and professional staff who are committed to integrating sustainability into their work. The video was shot around UCL and the nearby area. … Continue reading UCL Sustainability week – a global university that is also Sommers Town local university
Continue reading »About a week ago, the journal Nature published a feature article about Citizen Science No “PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research“, with the subtitle: “Projects that recruit the public are getting more ambitious and diverse, but the field faces some growing pains.” The report was written by the science journalist Aisling Irwin who contacted me, among … Continue reading Nature article on citizen science: mixing typologies
Continue reading »During the 22 to 29 October, I visited Shanghai & Shenzhen together with Michael Norton (CIVA), who organised the visit, and Liz Barry (Public Lab). This was a packed tour, with two all-day workshops that are dedicated to citizen science (one in Fudan University, Shanghai, and the other as part of the Asian Environmental Innovation … Continue reading Social Innovation and Citizen Science in Shanghai & Shenzhen
Continue reading »Urban Design Studio for postgraduate students at ERICA Campus, Hanyang University, led by Networking City, is invited for the student design competition of ‘Sejong Smart City’ by Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH).Last January, Ministry of Land,…
Continue reading »Urban Design Studio for postgraduate students at ERICA Campus, Hanyang University, led by Networking City, is invited for the student design competition of ‘Sejong Smart City’ by Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH).Last January, Ministry of Land,…
Continue reading »Trading crypto currency offline1, in person, is the quickest way of acquiring/selling crypto coins. It is also the only way of not exposing any identity information. This post presents a platform for finding buyers/sellers for crypto currencies in a certain … Continue reading →
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Air pollution has long been a problem in London, and the current mayor has identified pollution as one of his major goals to highlight and tackle polluion, and improve the capital’s air quality during his time in charge. This map, of the modelled 2020 annual pollution levels of NO2, has been produced by Parallel, using […]
Continue reading »I’ve been keeping an eye on London’s population projections, and indeed have featured them in a couple of presentations recently – at a TedX event and also a CRUK data visualisation conference at The Crick. By taking the most recent mid-year population estimates for London, and the annual population change, I can simply linearly extrapolate … Continue reading London’s 9 Million Day – Delayed →
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Urban Rambles is a new book by Nicholas Rudd-Jones, featuring walks through many of England’s cities. The book comes with a 22 route maps, drawn by illustrator Sara Mulvanny (see her portfolio page for the book), including a couple in London, which we feature here. Above is the “London Inner Circle” which stretches from Hyde […]
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