Month: September 2013

‘Mapping the Space of Flows’: the geography of the London Mega-City Region

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I’m pleased to be able to post here the penultimate version of an article that Duncan Smith and I recently had accepted to Regional Studies. In this article we look at ways of combining ‘big data’ from a telecoms network … Continue reading →

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‘Mapping the Space of Flows’: the geography of the London Mega-City Region

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Big Data, Built Environment, Economic Geography, economics, employment, Front Page, globalisation, ICT, innovation, mapping, telecoms

Going to Cambridge for Cinematic Urban Geographies Conference

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Image1. The poster of Cinematic Urban Geographies Conference.
 
LAST month, Networking City submitted an application for the conference: Cinematic Urban Geographies which is organised by CRASSH, University of Cambridge. The conference tries to understand urban characteristics through cinema. The proposal ‘The Introduction of Architecture: Drawing our route on the map’ was accepted and originally scheduled in a session on ‘cinematic cityscapes within social& cultural practices’. But it was recently relocated in the session of ‘’film as sites as memories’. 

During the presentation, Networking City will be introducing that we can redefine our ordinary life and spatial intimacy by mapping our daily route on the map, and it can imply various social aspects. The abstract is following.  




Image2. The image was captured in the movie of ‘The Introduction of Architecture’


The Introduction of Architecture: Drawing our route on the map

It does not require much effort to rediscover our city in the ordinary, everyday city of others. When we draw our daily route on a map, every space I walk in the city re-emerges with spatial organisations, street scenes, movements and sounds. Through the act of mapping, hidden experiences and activities in the city become a small part of the city and accumulate as a social and cultural layers within it. 

The plot of ‘The Introduction of Architecture’, released in 2012, shows a love story between young university students who meet in a class called ‘Introduction of Architecture’. In the movie, a lecturer asks students to draw their commuting routes – from their homes to the university, which is located in the old centre of Seoul – on a map. When the hero marks his route, he finds his way already underlined by the heroine.

The following are some themes that the movie reveals to us: first of all, through a simple action like drawing a line on the map, we can redefine our ordinary life and spatial intimacy. The line illustrates not only the sense of the same social backgrounds, but also the possibility of collective memory with others. Secondly, the movie hints at the growing regional inequality within Seoul by the admiration of the hero, who lives in the old city centre – which is relatively underdeveloped – contrasting it with the wealth and upper-class lifestyle of the southern part of Seoul that people call Gangnam. 

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Cambridge, Cinema, Conference, Introduction of Architecture, mapping, Seoul

Going to Cambridge for Cinematic Urban Geographies Conference

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Image1. The poster of Cinematic Urban Geographies Conference.
 
LAST month, Networking City submitted an application for the conference: Cinematic Urban Geographies which is organised by CRASSH, University of Cambridge. The conference tries to understand urban characteristics through cinema. The proposal ‘The Introduction of Architecture: Drawing our route on the map’ was accepted and originally scheduled in a session on ‘cinematic cityscapes within social& cultural practices’. But it was recently relocated in the session of ‘’film as sites as memories’. 

During the presentation, Networking City will be introducing that we can redefine our ordinary life and spatial intimacy by mapping our daily route on the map, and it can imply various social aspects. The abstract is following.  




Image2. The image was captured in the movie of ‘The Introduction of Architecture’


The Introduction of Architecture: Drawing our route on the map

It does not require much effort to rediscover our city in the ordinary, everyday city of others. When we draw our daily route on a map, every space I walk in the city re-emerges with spatial organisations, street scenes, movements and sounds. Through the act of mapping, hidden experiences and activities in the city become a small part of the city and accumulate as a social and cultural layers within it. 

The plot of ‘The Introduction of Architecture’, released in 2012, shows a love story between young university students who meet in a class called ‘Introduction of Architecture’. In the movie, a lecturer asks students to draw their commuting routes – from their homes to the university, which is located in the old centre of Seoul – on a map. When the hero marks his route, he finds his way already underlined by the heroine.

The following are some themes that the movie reveals to us: first of all, through a simple action like drawing a line on the map, we can redefine our ordinary life and spatial intimacy. The line illustrates not only the sense of the same social backgrounds, but also the possibility of collective memory with others. Secondly, the movie hints at the growing regional inequality within Seoul by the admiration of the hero, who lives in the old city centre – which is relatively underdeveloped – contrasting it with the wealth and upper-class lifestyle of the southern part of Seoul that people call Gangnam. 

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Cambridge, Cinema, Conference, Introduction of Architecture, mapping, Seoul

Geosocial Gauge Paper

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As regular readers of the blog know, we have been spending a lot of time recently looking at social media and the growth in locational information within such media. To this end we are very happy to see one of our papers appear in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. The paper is entitled “GeoSocial Gauge: A System Prototype for Knowledge Discovery from Social Media” which in essence discusses the challenge of merging diverse social media datasets into a single database which can then be used to generate geosocial knowledge. Below is the abstract:

“The remarkable success of online social media sites marks a shift in the way people connect and share information. Much of this information now contains some form of geographical content because of the proliferation of location-aware devices, thus fostering the emergence of geosocial media – a new type of user-generated geospatial information. Through geosocial media we are able, for the first time, to observe human activities in scales and resolutions that were so far unavailable. Furthermore, the wide spectrum of social media data and service types provides a multitude of perspectives on real-world activities and happenings, thus opening new frontiers in geosocial knowledge discovery. However, gleaning knowledge from geosocial media is a challenging task, as they tend to be unstructured and thematically diverse. To address these challenges, this article presents a system prototype for harvesting, processing, modeling, and integrating heterogeneous social media feeds towards the generation of geosocial knowledge. Our article addresses primarily two key components of this system prototype: a novel data model for heterogeneous social media feeds and a corresponding general system architecture. We present these key components and demonstrate their implementation in our system prototype, GeoSocial Gauge.”

Full reference:

Croitoru, A., Crooks, A.T., Radzikowski, J. and Stefanidis, A. (in press), GeoSocial Gauge: A System Prototype for Knowledge Discovery from Social Media, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.825724

If you don’t have access to IGIS, send us an email and we can send you an early version of the paper.

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GeoSocial, GIS, Social network analysis, Social Networks, twitter

Geosocial Gauge Paper

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As regular readers of the blog know, we have been spending a lot of time recently looking at social media and the growth in locational information within such media. To this end we are very happy to see one of our papers appear in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. The paper is entitled “GeoSocial Gauge: A System Prototype for Knowledge Discovery from Social Media” which in essence discusses the challenge of merging diverse social media datasets into a single database which can then be used to generate geosocial knowledge. Below is the abstract:

“The remarkable success of online social media sites marks a shift in the way people connect and share information. Much of this information now contains some form of geographical content because of the proliferation of location-aware devices, thus fostering the emergence of geosocial media – a new type of user-generated geospatial information. Through geosocial media we are able, for the first time, to observe human activities in scales and resolutions that were so far unavailable. Furthermore, the wide spectrum of social media data and service types provides a multitude of perspectives on real-world activities and happenings, thus opening new frontiers in geosocial knowledge discovery. However, gleaning knowledge from geosocial media is a challenging task, as they tend to be unstructured and thematically diverse. To address these challenges, this article presents a system prototype for harvesting, processing, modeling, and integrating heterogeneous social media feeds towards the generation of geosocial knowledge. Our article addresses primarily two key components of this system prototype: a novel data model for heterogeneous social media feeds and a corresponding general system architecture. We present these key components and demonstrate their implementation in our system prototype, GeoSocial Gauge.”

Full reference:

Croitoru, A., Crooks, A.T., Radzikowski, J. and Stefanidis, A. (in press), GeoSocial Gauge: A System Prototype for Knowledge Discovery from Social Media, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.825724

If you don’t have access to IGIS, send us an email and we can send you an early version of the paper.

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GeoSocial, GIS, Social network analysis, Social Networks, twitter

Census Atlas Japan

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Japan Census AtlasThe 2011 Census Open Atlas project has been put on hold recently as various other research projects have intervened – more on these soon. However, over the summer  Chris Brunsdon and I have taken a research trip to Ritsumeikan University (Japan) where we visited Keiji Yano and Tomoki Nakaya. As part of this trip I began developing a census atlas for Japan.

I have developed Atlases for a series of larger urban city areas (multiple municipalities), and also separately, those municipalities that were not within these zones.

Some randomly selected examples are as follows [you might be better right clicking these and selecting ‘save as’ or ‘download’ given that the file sizes are quite large for the cities]:

And for the cities:

The full list of maps are available here.

tokyo

More details after the break about how the maps were created…

The data used in this Atlases are available from Statistics Japan, however, for this project these were provided to me by Keiji Yano and  Tomoki Nakaya who also supplied the boundaries and various lookups. The places highlighted on the map were extracted from the Japan gazetteer file from Geonames.

In the previous atlas I used R to render out A4 PDF files which had an integrated scale bar and legend, however, due to the different shapes of the regions being mapped, these results were not always satisfactory; with some scale bars and legends overlapping the content of the maps. This positioning is difficult (although not impossible) to control when the map production is automated. Also, I was not happy about the scaling of the maps, as R had a tendency to put a lot of white space  around the maximum extent of the plot (could be my bad coding!). My ex-colleague Jon Reades also pointed out that this issue might be resolved with LaTex. Previously I had just been stitching together a series of PDF maps and a cover PDF with pdftk. An advantage of LaTex is that this has very good layout functionality, enabling images to be scaled to page widths etc. Also, LaTex enabled me to create a table of contents (toc) listing each of the maps at the front of the atlas. It was also possible to make the toc and the maps clickable, enabling links back and forth. Overall I think this is more satisfactory than the previous method I used, however, there are obviously a lot more things that would improve the layouts.

From a workflow perspective, the code operates slightly differently than before; loops render out all maps and a separate legend for each area. As these PDF are processed, an  external library PDFCrop was used to trim away all whitespace around the image extent. A loop then writes a Latex file that processes all images and their appropriate legend into a single document including the toc and links. This is rendered on the terminal with pdflatex and then pdftk is used to append the cover.

I think LaTex is definitely the way forward, although I would not claim that I have the process optimised yet. A massive benefit of this little project is that it has forced me to learn LaTex, and indeed I have now started using this for my academic writing… like R, LaTex is quite liberating once you are over the initial learning curve. Again, as before, the code to make the maps is available over on my Rpubs page here.

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porncams – sunny lane(1) ,Fujian Shipbuilding Trading Co. Ltd.

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porncams delivered one unit of 75m platform supply vessel (hull number DN75M-18) to the owner early September, this vessel was built in Southeast Shipyard’s Funing facility in Fu’an Ningde.

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Pedagogy meets Big Data and BIM – Big Data, Sensing and Augmented Reality: Paper and Key Note Presentation

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In June 2013 The Bartlett held  a conference entitled ‘Pedagogy meets Big Data and BIM’. The conference brought together over 100 participants from across the United Kingdom, European Union and the United States from diverse backgrounds such as academic institutions, government and industry – including ARUP, Autodesk, Balfour Beatty, BAM, and…

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Andrew Hudson-Smtih, augmented reality, Big Data, BIM, Sensing, The Bartlett, UCL Map, University College London

Pedagogy meets Big Data and BIM – Big Data, Sensing and Augmented Reality: Paper and Key Note Presentation

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In June 2013 The Bartlett held  a conference entitled ‘Pedagogy meets Big Data and BIM’. The conference brought together over 100 participants from across the United Kingdom, European Union and the United States from diverse backgrounds such as academic institutions, government and industry – including ARUP, Autodesk, Balfour Beatty, BAM, and…

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Andrew Hudson-Smtih, augmented reality, Big Data, BIM, Sensing, The Bartlett, UCL Map, University College London

An Urban Renaissance Achieved? Mapping a Decade of Densification in UK Cities

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It’s been 14 years since the landmark Urban Task Force report, which set the agenda for inner-city densification and brownfield regeneration in the UK. Furthermore we’ve seen significant economic and demographic change in the last decade that’s greatly impacted urban areas. We can now use the 2011 census data, mapped here on the LuminoCity GB … Continue reading →

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comparative urbanism, density, Great Britain, LuminoCity, planning, Population Change, UK Census 2011, urban form, visualisation

An Urban Renaissance Achieved? Mapping a Decade of Densification in UK Cities

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It’s been 14 years since the landmark Urban Task Force report, which set the agenda for inner-city densification and brownfield regeneration in the UK. Furthermore we’ve seen significant economic and demographic change in the last decade that’s greatly impacted urban areas. We can now use the 2011 census data, mapped here on the LuminoCity GB … Continue reading →

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An Urban Renaissance Achieved? Mapping a Decade of Densification in UK Cities

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It’s been 14 years since the landmark Urban Task Force report, which set the agenda for inner-city densification and brownfield regeneration in the UK. Furthermore we’ve seen significant economic and demographic change in the last decade that’s greatly impacted urban areas. We can now use the 2011 census data, mapped here on the LuminoCity GB … Continue reading →

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An Urban Renaissance Achieved? Mapping a Decade of Densification in UK Cities

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It’s been 14 years since the landmark Urban Task Force report, which set the agenda for inner-city densification and brownfield regeneration in the UK. Furthermore we’ve seen significant economic and demographic change in the last decade that’s greatly impacted urban areas. We can now use the 2011 census data, mapped here on the LuminoCity GB … Continue reading →

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comparative urbanism, density, Great Britain, LuminoCity, planning, Population Change, UK Census 2011, urban form, visualisation
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