The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Every so often you come across a dataset that really amazes you in its richness and ability to change perspectives on understanding the world. One such dataset has been produced by academics at Stanford and Oslo tracing the global supply chain of CO2 emissions. Traditionally emissions are attributed to countries depending on where fuels are … Continue reading »
I recently co-wrote an editorial (download the full ver […]
Continue reading »UCL recently hosted their first ever TEDx event, and to my amazement (probably after seeing some seriously dodgy maths themed stand-up I did) they invited me to give a talk. […]
Continue reading »Check out the Future Cities Lab established by ETH Zurich in Singapore. Many projects dealing with every aspects of the city-state but relevant to our own work on land use transport and mobility is their MATSims model which is now running … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Residence vs. Ancestry in Acquisition of Spanish Citizenship: A Netnography Approach Pablo Mateos and Jorge Durand Access to a nationality from a European union (EU) country has become a key migration strategy for people from outside the eu and their families. This … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Forget Social Networks, our names link us together in cultural and ethnic communities worldwide Our forenames and surnames are connected into distinct global networks of cultural, ethnic and linguistic communities. These are revealed for the first time y a team … Continue reading →
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Bike BizBike share schemes mappedBike BizResearch by the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis was presented today in Edinburgh at the annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society. The research delves into the attitudes – and ro…
Continue reading »Welcome to Singapore, The Intelligent Island. No not the sign greeting you at Changi when you land now but the sign back in 1989 which we show to the left. For the last 25 years, Singapore has been in the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »When converting coordinates between WGS84 (GPS) and OSGB36 (UK National Grid), using OSTN02 can gain us a few metres in accuracy over the basic parametric transformation provided by PostGIS’s st_transform via PROJ.4. Happily, Ordnance Survey now distribute an NTv2 version of the OSTN02 transformation, courtesy of the Defence Geographic Centre, which can be used by […]
Continue reading »When converting coordinates between WGS84 (GPS) and OSGB36 (UK National Grid), using OSTN02 can gain us a few metres in accuracy over the basic parametric transformation provided by PostGIS’s st_transform via PROJ.4. Happily, Ordnance Survey now distribute an NTv2 version of the OSTN02 transformation, courtesy of the Defence Geographic Centre, which can be used by […]
Continue reading »On June 15th I was lucky enough to attend the festival marking the launch of the UCL English department’s One Day In The City – a celebration of London from a more literary perspective than we at CASA are accustomed … Continue reading →
Singapore World Cities Summit, Singapore WasteMetAsia sessions, today. Talking on how complexity theory can be used to think about waste in cities – of course it can be used to think about anything in cities, but here are some improvised … Continue reading →
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A new book entitled “Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations (New Directions in Planning Theory)” by Gert De Roo, Jean Hillier and Joris Van Wezemael has recently been published. To quote from the book description:Complexity,…
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A new book entitled “Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations (New Directions in Planning Theory)” by Gert De Roo, Jean Hillier and Joris Van Wezemael has recently been published. To quote from the book description:Complexity,…
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