The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Shot on a Bolex with intervalometer, this sampling from Chris Scarafile’s time lapse library reflects the blur and momentum of modern city living:
We really like a) the feel of the clip and b) the fact that it was shot using a Bolex….
Continue reading »Future Internet has published – Schroth, O.; Pond, E.; Campbell, C.; Cizek, P.; Bohus, S.; Sheppard, S.R.J. Tool or Toy? Virtual Globes in Landscape Planning. Future Internet 2011, 3, 204-227.
Virtual globes, i.e., geobrowsers tha…
Continue reading »On November 11th I’m lucky enough to be performing at Bright Club: Stars, the Bloomsbury EXTRAVAGANZA. I’ve performed at Bright Club more than once, in the cozy confines of the Wilmington Arms and at the Green Man festival (in a … Continue reading →
Amazing what you discover when you search the web. Couldn’t find Ravenstein’s 1888 map that Waldo Tobler sent me as a detailed scan. Its framed in my room at UCL and somewhere on the web I know. What I did … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The icon left is rather appropriate for Arizona and the wild west, don’t you think. Entropy is increasing as we head towards the end of the course. The sixth lecture deals with our third form of scaling, scaling with space, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Need to protect something with a passcode in an iPhone app you’re developing? Then you may find my MIT-licensed passcode view controller — as seen in the mappiness app and in the short screencast below — of use. See Github for the code and (scant) documentation. Download video as MP4, WebM, or Ogg.
Continue reading »This entry goes to the CASA blog aggregator so those viewing it will be getting a blow by blow account of each lecture as I post it. As I don’t lecture much in CASA, at least it shows when I am … Continue reading →
Continue reading »We were delighted to receive a copy of this rather bril […]
Continue reading »In 2010, IBM Citizenship created the Smarter Cities Challenge to help 100 cities over a three-year period to address some of the critical challenges facing cities. They do this by contributing the time and expertise of their experts from different busi…
Continue reading »Stuart Eve here at The Bartlett’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has posted an update on his PhD research looking at augmenting archaeological sites. Before moving onto the real world he has built a proof of concept based on a…
Continue reading »In the previous three parts, I outlined the plan for getting geometry from MapTube via C Sharp into an FBX file using the C++ SDK provided by Autodesk. This final part shows data in a world map exported from MapTube and imported into 3DS Max. The above image shows the world countries 2010 outline from […]
Continue reading »Population Geography Research Group RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 – University of Edinburgh – 3rd to 5th July 2012 The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) is seeking to sponsor 12 sessions at the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. PopGRG session sponsorship was oversubscribed in 2011, and the number of sessions at the 2012 conference will be more limited. We are therefore seeking proposals for high quality sessions, with innovative […]
Continue reading »You can now download the fourth lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 4, or click the icon to the left of this post. This lecture continues the first kind of scaling based on size distributions focussing on names, high … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Last week I attended a “Beyond 2011” Census event organised by the Prof. Dave Martin and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The attendees came from central and local government, private companies that utlise census data, and a few universities. The majority there (based on an approximate straw poll) believed that there would not be a …
Continue reading »With recent developments here in CASA we somehow managed to miss the addition of automated 3D models into Google Earth for London. The mix of hand made and we presume LiDAR derived models is stunning with resolution down to modelling the chimneys&…
Continue reading »Since the end of September I’ve been busy with CASA’s new MRes course, teaching, organizing, planning like a good lecturer does. The MRes, in keeping with the research themes of CASA, is a highly interdisciplinary affair – drawing upon techniques … Continue reading →
The Alps as a place for living has a log tradition as an influential source shaping specific typologies and buildings. The specific conditions of the environment but also the very special atmosphere impact on both the design and the realisation of proj…
Continue reading »You can now download the third lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 3, or click the icon to the left of this post. This lecture focuses on the first kind of scaling which pertains to city size distributions. We look at … Continue reading →
Continue reading »GeoMason has recently been updated to support changes to MASON itself and I have contributed a few models to highlight the basic functionality of GeoMason and act as examples for how geographically explicit models can be built. Below are some of…
Continue reading »GeoMason has recently been updated to support changes to MASON itself and I have contributed a few models to highlight the basic functionality of GeoMason and act as examples for how geographically explicit models can be built. Below are some of…
Continue reading »Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds The Independent
Continue reading »A short yet somehow eye opening clip that should make anyone living in London wondering why this is not already part of our infrastructure:
Created by Hixon Design, a company providing green solutions for awkward spaces, we can see a f…
Continue reading »The Audi Urban Future Summit focused on the question of energies and forces that will shape future cities. Visionary ideas and research by experts on the development of new forms of urban mobility were in the center of the discussions. All well and goo…
Continue reading »The advances in online data mining and the rising popularity of online social networking data is posing challenging questions in regards to ethics and privacy. How can academic research provide a comprehensive framework to secure data management and gu…
Continue reading »Something I have been thinking about recently is the possibility of integration between GIS and space syntax. The motivations are very clear. Space syntax represents a compelling quantitative model of human behaviour and movement. W…
Continue reading »CALL FOR PAPERS Population Geography: Inter-Generational Patterns and Processes Third Biannual British-Irish Population Conference 18-19 April 2012 Hosted by Queen’s University Belfast under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Papers are invited for a British-Irish population geography conference on inter-generational patterns and processes. Whilst there is a focus on […]
Continue reading »You can now download the second lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 2, or by clicking the icon to the left of this post. More bibliography is on its way and this second lecture focuses on patterns and fractals as well … Continue reading →
Continue reading »HIGHLY SKILLED MIGRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Middlesex University, Hendon Campus, London, NW4 4BT. Location: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/Location/hendon/index.aspx 24th and 25th May 2012 Research in the field of migration has tended to focus on the multifarious international diasporas of the poor and the powerless. Taking important new research in the field of intra-European highly-skilled migration as its […]
Continue reading »Started my new lecture course on Spatial Complexity at Arizona State University. It’s killing me doing relatively new stuff day after day. Lectures are posted after given: Seven so far, the last on Wednesday (2/11) (at http://www.spatialcom…
Continue reading »Here at digital urban we are picky, we like the best and this is why we are especially pleased to of found ‘Skoda – Curriculum’ by weareflink. Although not the most stand out title for a short 3D movie, it is amazing:
One of the greatest challenge …
Continue reading »The sequel to the award winning Golden Age – The Simulation, ‘Somewhere’ attempts to visualise the notion of a ‘downloaded architecture’. We are in a time where much of what we do is online. The notion of the online will radically change, the notion of…
Continue reading »The first two parts of the FBX export process dealt with getting the FBX SDK working and exporting some simple geometry. Now what’s required is the ability to pass complex geometry from the MapTube side using C# over to the FBX side using C++. The obvious way to do this is to pass the geometry […]
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity Has Started – you can download the first lecture from the Menu Item above Lecture 1, or by clicking the icon to the left of this post. If you go to www.complexcity.info then you can retrieve the basic background … Continue reading →
Continue reading »*This post has been cross-posted from the Mapping London blog.* A few months back I had the honour of being asked to approve the use of a couple of excerpts from my London Surname Map in The Times Atlas of London. The wait was finally over last week when I received my copy in the …
Continue reading »Paul Allen & Mark Greaves argue that the singularity that Ray Kurzweil amongst others are predicting within the next 30 years where AI & biomedicine merge and our species transforms, will not come to pass. This drama will be avoided by … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Canon T3i has the option to capture at 60fps at 720p, essentially allowing you to slow time by 50%. The effect is used to its max by Alex Lee with his Tokyo Slo-Mode movie:
Very nice…
Music Credit: Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke- …And the Wor…
Continue reading »Alice is a easy to use 3D programming environment where one can create an animation for telling a story or be used for playing an interactive game. It is designed to teach the fundamentals of object-oriented programming. In Alice, people, a…
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