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    Author: Duncan Smith

    Visualising Flows: Great Britain Journey-to-Work

    Posted on Thursday 21 June 2012 by Duncan Smith

    There have been some wonderful flow maps appearing online recently, such as Paul Butler’s global…

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    flows, Great Britain, sustainability, Transport, visualisation

    BBC London Calling Season

    Posted on Thursday 7 June 2012 by Duncan Smith

      To mark the Olympic year a series of programs on London is being broadcast…

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    gentrification, history, Housing, london, planning, television

    Applied Urban Modelling 2012

    Posted on Thursday 31 May 2012 by Duncan Smith

    CASA researchers were out in force at the AUM 2012 meeting in Cambridge last week,…

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    Events, Software tools, urban form, visualisation

    Mapping Intra-metropolitan Journey-to-work Sustainability

    Posted on Monday 28 May 2012 by Duncan Smith

    As cities expand with multiple centres spread over massive regional hinterlands, the need to better…

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    london, planning, Publications, sustainability, Transport

    Sponsored Space

    Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2012 by Duncan Smith

    Cities have always been the great spaces of commerce, trade and advertising; and recent decades…

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    advertising, Art, london, public space, Underground

    London 3D Augmented Reality Map

    Posted on Sunday 22 April 2012 by Duncan Smith

    CASA hosted a very successful Smart Cities event last Friday, including presentations from Carlo Ratti,…

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    augmented reality, CASA, Events, london, Smart Cities, visualisation

    Arrival City by Doug Saunders

    Posted on Sunday 4 March 2012 by Duncan Smith

    First published in 2010, I have only recently got round to reading Doug Saunders‘ excellent…

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    global cities, immigration, migration

    The Evolving Business Geography of Greater London

    Posted on Thursday 23 February 2012 by Duncan Smith

    I presented at the CASA Seminar Series yesterday on the topic of business centre specialisation…

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    agglomeration, City of London, diversity, london, planning, Real estate, West End

    Sketching the City in Motion

    Posted on Friday 9 December 2011 by Duncan Smith

    Whilst social scientists approach cities from rational and technical perspectives, it’s often interesting to get…

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    Art, gentrification, Illustration, london, visualisation

    London Urban Form 3D Map

    Posted on Thursday 17 November 2011 by Duncan Smith

    The structure of large cities such as London is complex and endlessly fascinating. Effective visualisation…

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    density, london, planning, urban form, visualisation

    Shaping London by Terry Farrell

    Posted on Monday 7 November 2011 by Duncan Smith

    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 […]

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    Book, london, planning, urban form

    Cycling City Tensions

    Posted on Tuesday 11 October 2011 by Duncan Smith

    With a few notable exceptions such as Cambridge, cycling in UK cities is minimal compared…

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    cycling, london, planning, Safety, sustainability

    Barratt Homes write National Planning Policy Framework

    Posted on Tuesday 27 September 2011 by Duncan Smith

    The UK government is seeking to dramatically overhaul the English planning system, releasing the National…

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    Housing, planning, policy, sustainability

    High Rise Hangover

    Posted on Sunday 28 August 2011 by Duncan Smith

    Swept up in the wave of the mid-2000′s property boom, planning authorities signed-off a series…

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    City of London, High Buildings, london, planning, Shard, Skyscrapers

    London Riots- the Unemployment Link

    Posted on Monday 22 August 2011 by Duncan Smith

    2011 is fast becoming one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, with revolutions…

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    london, London Riots, Unemployment

    PhD Thesis: Polycentricity and Sustainable Urban Form in London

    Posted on Friday 19 August 2011 by Duncan Smith

    After four-and-half years of exploring, analysing, procrastinating, and writing, writing, writing, it’s finally done. Here’s the…

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    london, Publications, Standard

    Charting UK Energy Flows

    Posted on Tuesday 22 March 2011 by Duncan Smith

    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 …

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    Arcadia, energy, News, scale, sustainability, UK

    Arcadia

    Posted on Monday 21 March 2011 by Duncan Smith

    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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    Arcadia, description, Project, Projects

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