The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »Nice work guys. <br />this stuff looks nice. But real urban design, civil engineering, statutory and strategic planning work requires focus at the human scale. Humans are what it is all about. <br />The Urban Engine is all about getting down to street level user experience – cars, bikes and people – because that is where we live. <br />Feel free to contact us via www.u-c.com.au to have a go any time. We will send you a link.<br />We love City Engine, SketchUp and Max too – and it all fits into the same workflow. However, we tend to take real data from GIS / LIDAR / survey / CAD design and push that through as a context (via FBX) then start importing revitt / max / sketchup proposals into this base. This is what the Victorian Government now use on a daily basis in house for development assessment. We have also built a “2.5D” building volumetric tool to allow real simple forms to be made in about 12 seconds (easier than sketchup) – to be used live in meetings.<br />Cheers.<br />Dr Ben Guy
Continue reading »Taschen’s Information Graphics book is the most compreh […]
Continue reading »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 graduate from the University of Sheffield, died in 2004. The Population Geography Research Group has set up three prizes (£100 for first prize; £50 for second […]
Continue reading »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 lead sponsor along with Mastercard). Citigroup’s sponsorship is crucial for the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »CityDashboard includes a live feed and a map detailing what’s happening in eight cities across Britain.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »CityDashboard aggregates real-time data for cities around the UK and presents the information on a webpage and map. The project was created by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. The dashboard of live feeds displays a…
Continue reading »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 course fractals. Take a look. These patterns swirl around all our … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The BBC’s science series ‘Bang goes the Theory’ recently had an episode on crowd behaviour. It shows a fascinating way of getting plenty of research out there into the public eye, using very short clips of research taking place based on certain themes….
Continue reading »The BBC’s science series ‘Bang goes the Theory’ recently had an episode on crowd behaviour. It shows a fascinating way of getting plenty of research out there into the public eye, using very short clips of research taking place based on certain themes….
Continue reading »The BBC’s science series ‘Bang goes the Theory’ recently had an episode on crowd behaviour. It shows a fascinating way of getting plenty of research out there into the public eye, using very short clips of research taking place based on certain themes….
Continue reading »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 to the transport system. The ANTS project (Adaptive Networks for complex Transport Systems) that I’ve been working on is designed as a toolkit for collecting transport … Read more →
Continue reading »This column previously covered a neat experiment that was using open data for London’s air quality to point out automatically areas of iffy air quality on Twitter.See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »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 visualisation a step forward while at the same time bringing procedural city modelling into the ma…
Continue reading »See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »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 at. The meeting was an ideal opportunity for me to feature … Continue reading →
Continue reading »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 the analogy of cities with pulsing flows is being increasingly utilised for explanatory mapping. For example the work of UCL CASA’s Jon Reades above depicts the London Underground network …
Continue reading »As I get to better grips with the full richness of the Oyster data set and the complexity of the TfL network it’s gradually getting easier to build better visualisations. One of the ones that I’ve wanted to revisit for quite some time was my original ‘pulse of the city’ animation (you can see it […]
Continue reading »I’ve been meaning to post this for ages but have had a great deal on my plate (more posts and visualisations to follow in the next week I hope) so this has kept slipping, together with the six or seven other ‘draft’ posts I’ve got going. Anyway, this visualisation shows average entries at each and every Underground, […]
Continue reading »I’ve just released Spindlytext on Github. It’s the library that powers the live data display in Pigeon Sim, by creating KML linestrings in the shape of letters. It looks like this:
Continue reading »We featured the first official Olympic Park map at the […]
Continue reading »Here’s a map of England, overlaid on it is a choropleth map showing the modal (i.e most common) council tax band within each Census Output Area (OA) in England, based on March 2011 data released by the Office of National … Continue reading →
Continue reading »‘Modelling Movement in the City: The Influence of Individuals’ was the title of a talk I gave at the AGILE conference in Avignon, France last week. For the conference I actually initially prepared a poster that never ended up seeing the light of d…
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