The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
I was in Paris just before Christmas, taking part in a workshop at IFSSTAR (Université Paris-Est) on innovations in flow visualisation – GFlowiz. I talked/demonstrated some old and new ways that I and others have shown commute journeys in the UK on the web, looking both at The Great British Bike to Work and TubeCreature … Continue reading A Glimpse of the Future in Paris →
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The HERE Urban Mobility Index profiles 30 cities around the world, looking at how connected, sustainable, affordable and innovative they are, relating to urban mobility – the options that people have to move around the city area. London is one of the cities and scores first place for its public transport efficiency and low emission […]
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My new book is published on 11th December 2018 in the US and on the 8th January 2019 in the UK We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems … Continue reading →
Last week I gave a talk to Department of Computational and Data Sciences colloquium series entitled to “Computational Modeling of Slums: Progress and Challenges” in which I discussed some of our current work on slums. This talk was inspired by several …
Continue reading »Last week I gave a talk to Department of Computational and Data Sciences colloquium series entitled to “Computational Modeling of Slums: Progress and Challenges” in which I discussed some of our current work on slums. This talk was inspired by several …
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It’s been a wet and drab December so far – so why not escape the gloom and get into the spirit of the season with the biggest Christmas market/funfair in London? Winter Wonderland, which occupies a huge space at the eastern end of Hyde Park, stretching almost from Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner. The […]
Continue reading »The Little Globe Company is Loraine Rutt, a London-based cartographer and artist who specialises in maps created from clay, perhaps most famously crafting and hand-painting miniature porcelain globes in painstakingly precise detail. Her output is not just globe-based though, as this piece, showing London’s relief (hills and valleys) as well as its river network, both […]
Continue reading »Urban and slum areas in Nairobi (False composite image created by stacking image bands 7, 6 and 4 from the Landsat 8 satellite.Turning back to slums, we just published paper entitled “Detecting and Mapping Slums using Open Data: A Case Study in Kenya”…
Continue reading »Urban and slum areas in Nairobi (False composite image created by stacking image bands 7, 6 and 4 from the Landsat 8 satellite.Turning back to slums, we just published paper entitled “Detecting and Mapping Slums using Open Data: A Case Study in Kenya”…
Continue reading »Recently our research has started to dig deeper into social media, especially how bots diffuse information in online social networks (OSNs). To this end at the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications we had a paper…
Continue reading »Recently our research has started to dig deeper into social media, especially how bots diffuse information in online social networks (OSNs). To this end at the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications we had a paper…
Continue reading »This lovely map, hand-created by artist-cartographer Adam Dant, which was commissioned by the East End Trades Guild, is launched today at their Christmas takeover of Old Spitalfields Market – you’ll be able to pick up a free copy there. The map shows the locations of some of the more interesting traders and small businesses in […]
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