The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
As cities get bigger, their capacity to innovate (hence their wealth) appears to scale super-linearly (with their size). But the idea that ‘big cities’ have ‘big brains’ and are smarter, is problematic as is their scaling and allometry. Read Changizi … Continue reading →
Yesterday was a busy day for CASA-UCL – after being featured by BBC technology we trotted down to Covent Garden in the evening to see the launch of Sense and the City – a London Transport museum exhibition featuring work … Continue reading →
Social networking is an internet phenomena and as such not limite to political borders. It spread rather quickly around the globe and is now as a range of maps recently has shown present on al continents as an important part of internet usage. THere ar…
Continue reading »Social networking is an internet phenomena and as such not limite to political borders. It spread rather quickly around the globe and is now as a range of maps recently has shown present on al continents as an important part of internet usage. THere ar…
Continue reading »OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner’s Guide – Erik Hazard, Packt Publishing The OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner’s Guide (buy: Amazon) is a guidebook for a technology that is relatively unknown in the broader technology world – OpenLayers being a JavaScript-based online mapping framework, the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Put my experiments with movies online. The current one is that based on linking our desktop LUTI model to Google Earth. Click here. No sound yet and still getting used to the capture. Click to explore the full Tyndall & … Continue reading →
Pleased that a feature on spatial data visualisation at UCL CASA has appeared as a video on the BBC News website today. It includes some work I did with Martin Austwick on animating the bike share in London – I … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Work from CASA features on the BBC Technology site today – full credits go to Jon Reades for Oyster visualizations, Joan Serras for national transport flows (more info on both here), Steven Gray for Tweet-0-Meters and me and Ollie O’Brien … Continue reading →
TweetI think I read about this in the Metro yesterday – a nice mix of the original Harry Beck concept and a little more spatial accuracy… If you’re interested in exploring further, go to http://london-tubemap.com/
Continue reading »With the possibilities of new computer technologies and the availability of rendering power physical models in architecture have lost the role as the main tool for spatial and physical shaping and testing of ideas. It is convenient with a few clicks t…
Continue reading »With the possibilities of new computer technologies and the availability of rendering power physical models in architecture have lost the role as the main tool for spatial and physical shaping and testing of ideas. It is convenient with a few clicks t…
Continue reading »Together with the digital mapping the 3D modes have become very popular and are of most mapping services these days. There is the basic terrain that can be rendered in 3D, but also the buildings. Google had from very early on 3D buildings for cities, g…
Continue reading »Together with the digital mapping the 3D modes have become very popular and are of most mapping services these days. There is the basic terrain that can be rendered in 3D, but also the buildings. Google had from very early on 3D buildings for cities, g…
Continue reading »…. according to the great cartographer Arthur Robinson, the two maps of traffic between Dublin and the rest of Ireland by Lt. Harness of the British Army in 1837, are the oldest. Mapped for the Irish Railway Commissioners prior to … Continue reading →
The widening of the planning process is something we have only seen happening in the past 20 years. Public consultations are older, but not public participation. There was a strong practice of participation in the late eighties and early nineties ,whic…
Continue reading »The widening of the planning process is something we have only seen happening in the past 20 years. Public consultations are older, but not public participation. There was a strong practice of participation in the late eighties and early nineties ,whic…
Continue reading »Aaron Koblin has produced some fantastic animations of airline flows reminiscent of some of Joan Serras’ work on our SIMULACRA blog. Check out Aaron’s flow stuff. He uses Google Maps to zoom in and out. Also dig into his web … Continue reading →
The ESRC’s Administrative Data Liaison Service will be holding a one day conference to highlight the power of administrative data using examples of current or completed research. The event will also provide an opportunity to explore the future for administrative data as a research resource, including new and developing mechanisms for accessing data. I am […]
Continue reading »For a decade or more, computer scientists have used procedural logics (grammars) to generate urban morphologies. The paper by Li and Miller uses such recursive procedures similar to those we used a while ago to generate fractal cityscapes. Watch their … Continue reading →
The discussion around the subjectivity of mapping and the potential of subjective mapping tools becoming possible with the ever greater penetration of gadgets an locative media is gaining momentum. There are a number of project focusing on the output o…
Continue reading »The discussion around the subjectivity of mapping and the potential of subjective mapping tools becoming possible with the ever greater penetration of gadgets an locative media is gaining momentum. There are a number of project focusing on the output o…
Continue reading »In a new book Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space Mark Shepard presents a discussion on the current state of the art of ubiquitous computing showcasing a range of five projects together with a series of essa…
Continue reading »In a new book Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space Mark Shepard presents a discussion on the current state of the art of ubiquitous computing showcasing a range of five projects together with a series of essa…
Continue reading »Ever noticed how, in Google Earth, marker pins that overlap each other spring apart gracefully when you click them, so you can pick the one you meant? And ever noticed how, when using the Google Maps API, the exact same thing doesn’t happen? This…
Continue reading »Most of urban dynamics involve activities that are in situ already. Here we present a populist foray into simulating the impact of regeneration on Stratford (the site of the Olympics Games) in east London using our Tyndall LUTI model. Read the … Continue reading →
From Daniela Krug and Lars Malmqvist comes TubeViz R […]
Continue reading »I was pleased to be invited to Brussels last week to pick up a prize for my Bike Share Map. It won the visualisation stream of the Open Data Challenge, which was organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The presentation … Continue reading →
Continue reading »AAG 2012 – CALL FOR PAPERSSPECIAL SESSION(S): Agent-Based Models and Geographical SystemsLOCATION AND DATESAssociation of American Geographers Annual MeetingFebruary, 24-28th, 2012, New York, USADESCRIPTIONAgent-based modeling (ABM) within geographical…
Continue reading »AAG 2012 – CALL FOR PAPERSSPECIAL SESSION(S): Agent-Based Models and Geographical SystemsLOCATION AND DATESAssociation of American Geographers Annual MeetingFebruary, 24-28th, 2012, New York, USADESCRIPTIONAgent-based modeling (ABM) within geographical…
Continue reading »This is a presentation I gave at the UCL Public Engagement Symposium on the QRator project, 22nd June 2011. Presentation was in the style of ‘ignite’ – 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide, and in that vain, the slides are purposely image heavy and text light.
Continue reading »The Matterhorn is the iconic mountain in Switzerland and features on many ‘Swiss’ Products or as part of a logo as for example with Toblerone the Swiss chocolate in triangular shape, a abstraction of the Matterhorn itself. There are of course other mo…
Continue reading »The Matterhorn is the iconic mountain in Switzerland and features on many ‘Swiss’ Products or as part of a logo as for example with Toblerone the Swiss chocolate in triangular shape, a abstraction of the Matterhorn itself. There are of course other mo…
Continue reading »Buildings are generally thought of being static structures playing a dual role in hosting and defining spatial context. The different types of buildings are adjusted to different activities and usages serving as platforms for interaction and communicat…
Continue reading »Buildings are generally thought of being static structures playing a dual role in hosting and defining spatial context. The different types of buildings are adjusted to different activities and usages serving as platforms for interaction and communicat…
Continue reading »Constructing flows from where people are located at different points in time is usually hard and often impossible for large populations. You can only do it for individuals if you know the actual locations and order visited: posted on vimeo, … Continue reading →
It’s been a while since I did any Fortran. I’ve been looking into contouring algorithms and decided to have a look at Paul Bourke’s Conrec program that was originally published in Byte magazine in 1987: http://paulbourke.net/papers/conrec The graph above shows the underlying data values as a coloured square grid with the black contour lines on […]
Continue reading »Nike is one of the very big brands managing to cleverly connect to their customers through both very good marketing and a product range always catching and inspiring the trends. So they were very early to offer an iPod extension to connect their sport …
Continue reading »Nike is one of the very big brands managing to cleverly connect to their customers through both very good marketing and a product range always catching and inspiring the trends. So they were very early to offer an iPod extension to connect their sport …
Continue reading »The analogy between the city and the human body goes back to Leonardo. The heart of the city, said Victor Gruen, pumps its people as flows of traffic to keep it energized as an exchange mechanism. Great visualization of the … Continue reading →
From three posts a day to almost a month between articles, the shame of it. Its ok though, we have a plan – work even harder and work even longer, it seems to be the only answer.Despite the lack of posts it has been all go behind the scenes at CASA wit…
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