The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
A bit of a dry post here, but I thought I’d share my experience of trying to get two instances of MySQL (and two different versions, to boot) running simultaneously on a single piece of hardware as I’ve spent the …
Continue reading »In fits and starts, over the past month I’ve been getting to grips with an exciting new Oyster Card data set from TfL and the wonderfully supportive Andrew Gaitskell, their resident Oyster Card data expert. For those few of you …
Continue reading »The last sentence I ever expected to hear was “Let’s go see the 3D Werner Herzog film…” [Vanity Fair] Like everyone who hasn’t managed to steer clear of a theatre entirely for the past couple of years, I’ve seen a few 3D films — Coraline, Up and, I must confess, Avatar — but Werner …
Continue reading »I’ve got a few trips coming up to places where either: a) I don’t want to use data because it will be expensive (i.e. America), or b) I won’t be able to use data because I will have no reception … Continue reading →
Continue reading »In the Tyndall Cities project (which is part of the UK Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) , we have developed a large scale land use transportation model of London and the Thames Gateway which forms the heart of an …
Continue reading »MOGRIDGE M. and PARR J. B. (1997) Metropolis or region: on the development and structure of London, Regional Studies 31, 97–115. Drawing on a disparate range of sources and viewing the question from several perspectives, an attempt is made to trace …
Continue reading »WEGENER, M. and GNAD, F. and VANNAHME, M. (1986) The Time Scale of Urban Change, Advances in Urban Systems Modelling(Hutchison, B. and Batty, M. eds.) Human settlements evolve over a long time span by the cumulative efforts of many generations. The …
Continue reading »TITHERIDGE, H. and HALL, P. (2006) Changing travel to work patterns in South East England, Journal of Transport Geography14, 60–75. The Greater South East England region of the UK constitutes a “global mega-city region”. The UK Government’s 2003 Sustainable Communities strategy …
Continue reading »NIELSEN, T.A.S. and HOVGESEN, H.H. (2008) Exploratory mapping of commuter flows in England and Wales, Journal of Transport Geography 16, 90–99 The paper uses the origin–destination commute data published from the 1991 and 2001 Census to explore the developments in …
Continue reading »ZHAO, F. and CHUNG, S. (2006) A Study of Alternative Land Use Forecasting Models, Final Report to the Florida DOT Systems Planning Office FSUTMS requires future land use forecasts as input data to predict future travel demand and transportation needs. …
Continue reading »On the 9th September CASA hosted a seminar discussing relationships between London and the South East region with a view to developing the most appropriate framework for land use transport modelling. Mike Batty introduced the SCALE and ARCADIA projects; Duncan …
Continue reading »COSMIC (COmplexity in Spatial dynaMICs) is a proposal linking three research groups (Vrie University (VU) Amsterdam, UCL and National University of Ireland at Maynooth (NUIM)) dealing with urban science and geo-spatial analysis. The network will focus on urban dynamic processes …
Continue reading »So on Friday I went to hear my supervisor, Peter Hall, on a panel discussion with Hank Ditmar (of the Prince’s Foundation) and Will Alsop (famous architect/urban designer). The title for the discussion was “The Object, the City & the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I have to admit loving this one — what a way to mess with people’s heads. The background is here. And for a higher-quality version than the one on YouTube, watch this.
Continue reading »Over at Naked Capitalism, there has been a lot of talk about the risk of default in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As someone without a mortgage or a home part of me is kind of enjoying the whole debacle … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I came across an amusing coincidence between life and art/comedy recently: in the first corner we have The Onion’s take on why other people should shift to public transportation; and in the second corner we have the New York Times … Continu…
Continue reading »The idea that a ‘starchitect’ could regenerate an entire city effectively began with the ‘Bilbao Effect’, and a host of other cities have jumped on this particular bandwagon. Apparently, you pretty much have to get Gehry, Calatrava, Foster, Rogers, or … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Apparently I’m not the only one who finds recycling in Britain (and especially London) confusing. As the article notes, part of the problem is that each council manages its own recycling system — so council A takes one set of … Contin…
Continue reading »The Guardian reports that proposals for Britain’s new ‘eco-towns’ were found by a government panel to be ‘inadequate’. The two most oft-cited problems for the ones that weren’t “little more than a typical existing housing scheme” were local employment and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »From an article by Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair I was led to a web site opposed to the the redevelopment of St Vincent’s Hospital in the West Village section of Manhattan. Aside from the fact that Protect the Village … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’m not sure I’ve ever watched a horror film where I actually hoped that the main characters — and most especially the cameraman — would die. And the longer I watched this rubbish Cloverfield the more painful I hoped that ……
Continue reading »A while back I upgraded to an HTC Touch (well, technically a T-Mobile MDA Touch Plus) because I wanted to try out a ‘Smart Phone’ and T-Mobile was willing to let me have it for £15 and helped me to … Continue reading →
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