Month: February 2018

Participatory soundscape sensing – joint paper with Dr Chunming Li

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One of the lovely aspects of scientific research is its international dimension – the opportunity to collaborate with people from different places, cultures, and necessarily practices and points of view. During 2017, Dr Chnming Li, of the Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Science, was a visiting researcher in ExCiteS. Dr Li … Continue reading Participatory soundscape sensing – joint paper with Dr Chunming Li

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citizen science, Crowdsourcing, Environmental information, noise, Papers, participatory monitoring, Participatory Sensing, Public Participation, Research projects, VGI

Bikeshare in London – Borough Update

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Borough Update Meanwhile, the borough-by-borough rollout of dockless in London continues. Wandsworth has a forthcoming pilot, and has published the responses to a questionnaire given to six potential operators. Nearby Richmond is also planning on trialing dockless “by April”. Redbridge is bringing Ofo and Urbo in on 2 March. This will give Urbo a contiguous … Continue reading Bikeshare in London – Borough Update →

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Future Transport Report and Dockless in London

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The GLA published an interesting report last week: Future transport – How is London responding to technological innovation. It focused mainly on drones, driverless cars and app-based services (as an example, CityMapper’s experimenting on turning its huge desire-line dataset, created from the data of its millions of users and their journeys, into a group-based taxishare … Continue reading Future Transport Report and Dockless in London →

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From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the Future – Daily Beast

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From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the Future
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… the tech companies’ own workers and whatever other people with skills the machines haven’t yet replaced are a new class of urban serfs living in small apartments, along with a much larger class of dependent persons living on “income maintenance …
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Family ties, internal migration and immobility

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The FamilyTies project: Family ties, internal migration and immobility Feb 17, 2018 PGRG Blog #9, February 2018 Clara H. Mulder Population geographers have played an important role in gaining understanding of migration patterns, processes and outcomes. However, despite a growing research attention to inter-generational care and geographical distances between family members, the role of ties … More Family ties, internal migration and immobility

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family ties, immobility, migration

Tranquil Pavement

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Tranquil Pavement is an online map recently launched by the Tranquil City project based in London, in association with the Outlandish Cooperative and funded by Organicity. It aims to highlight tranquil places to visit, if the hustle and bustle of city life gets too much, by plotting “crowdsourced “locations – referenced in an Instagram feed […]

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air pollution, air quality, crowdsourced, data, green, Instagram, noise, peaceful, pollution, quiet, tagged

DITOs, Doing It TOgether Science – introductory video

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The Doing It Together Science (DITOs) project is now in its 20th Month. It is a 3-year project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, that is aimed to increase awareness of and participation in citizen science across Europe and beyond. As such, it is focused on communication, coordination, and support of citizen science activities. Therefore, … Continue reading DITOs, Doing It TOgether Science – introductory video

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Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 5 – Data quality

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This week, in the “Introduction to Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing“, our focus was on data management, to complete the first part of the course (the second part starts in a week’s time since we have a mid-term “Reading Week” at UCL). The part that I’ve enjoyed most in developing was the segment that addresses … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 5 – Data quality

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citizen science, data quality, Geographical Information Quality, online course, OpenStreetMap, PPGIS, quality assurance, Spatial Data Quality, teaching, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Chiswick Timeline

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The Chiswick Timeline, a mural of maps showing the history of the pleasant west London neighbourhood, was successfully crowdfunded and launched last month. It appears alongside a road as it passes underneath a railway bridge by Turnham Green station. A commemorative book, reproducing the work, is available to buy online or at Foster’s Bookshop on […]

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Abundance, Abundance London, Art, Chiswick, Ealing, Historic, Hounslow, mural, Nordon, railway, timeline, Turnham Green, Wall