Visualising Flows: Great Britain Journey-to-Work
There have been some wonderful flow maps appearing online recently, such as Paul Butler’s global…
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BBC London Calling Season
To mark the Olympic year a series of programs on London is being broadcast…
Continue reading »Applied Urban Modelling 2012
CASA researchers were out in force at the AUM 2012 meeting in Cambridge last week,…
Continue reading »Mapping Intra-metropolitan Journey-to-work Sustainability
As cities expand with multiple centres spread over massive regional hinterlands, the need to better…
Continue reading »Sponsored Space
Cities have always been the great spaces of commerce, trade and advertising; and recent decades…
Continue reading »London 3D Augmented Reality Map
CASA hosted a very successful Smart Cities event last Friday, including presentations from Carlo Ratti,…
Continue reading »Arrival City by Doug Saunders
First published in 2010, I have only recently got round to reading Doug Saunders‘ excellent…
Continue reading »The Evolving Business Geography of Greater London
I presented at the CASA Seminar Series yesterday on the topic of business centre specialisation…
Continue reading »Sketching the City in Motion
Whilst social scientists approach cities from rational and technical perspectives, it’s often interesting to get…
Continue reading »London Urban Form 3D Map
The structure of large cities such as London is complex and endlessly fascinating. Effective visualisation…
Continue reading »Shaping London by Terry Farrell
I have recently been enjoying Terry Farrell’s book “Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis”. Farrell is one of the UK’s best known and respected urban planners, and his passion for place-making and urban culture shine through in this accessible discussion of the development of the capital. Rather than an analysis of […]
Continue reading »Cycling City Tensions
With a few notable exceptions such as Cambridge, cycling in UK cities is minimal compared…
Continue reading »Barratt Homes write National Planning Policy Framework
The UK government is seeking to dramatically overhaul the English planning system, releasing the National…
Continue reading »High Rise Hangover
Swept up in the wave of the mid-2000′s property boom, planning authorities signed-off a series…
Continue reading »London Riots- the Unemployment Link
2011 is fast becoming one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, with revolutions…
Continue reading »PhD Thesis: Polycentricity and Sustainable Urban Form in London
After four-and-half years of exploring, analysing, procrastinating, and writing, writing, writing, it’s finally done. Here’s the…
Continue reading »Charting UK Energy Flows
The combined economic and environmental pressures of, on the one hand, volatile energy markets and looming peak oil, and on the other, the need to mitigate anthropogenic climate change, means that in the coming decades the economic success and quality …
Continue reading »Arcadia
Adaptation and Resilience in Cities: Analysis and Decision making using Integrated Assessment This project undertakes system-scale modelling of the inter-relationships between climate impacts, the urban economy, land use, transport and the built environment to enable the design of cities that …
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