The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
At the moment we are looking into ways to mount 6 iPads in the CASA office, home of digital urban. As part of our ‘Analogies’ grant we are looking at creating a portable exhibition space of urban research. Building on our recent iPad work on QRator, in…
Continue reading »At the moment we are looking into ways to mount 6 iPads in the CASA office, home of digital urban. As part of our ‘Analogies’ grant we are looking at creating a portable exhibition space of urban research. Building on our recent iPad work on QRator, in…
Continue reading »UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology is reopening on 15 March, allowing some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world to be displayed for the first time, but in contrast to the more traditional museum outlook, the new Grant has integrated iPads, …
Continue reading »A quick post with info on how the work of CASA (home of digital urban) has been used and featured in the media this week:CNN USA and The Discovery Channel both made use of Tweet-o-Meter to demonstrate the use of social media after the earthquake in Jap…
Continue reading »Big Data is here, and it changes everything. From startups to the Fortune 500, smart companies are betting on data-driven insight. Strata, a conference organised by O’Reilly was based on three full days of hands-on training, information-rich sessions, …
Continue reading »Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? We revisit this work in-light of a meeting in a few minutes time….Coming out of CASA and the MIT Sensable City Lab, the movie below looks a…
Continue reading »Mixing day and night images with the technique in astrophotography known as ‘star trails’ it is possible to capture a single image detailing both day and night activity. In the photograph below to the left is the moon streaking across the scene and the…
Continue reading »Admittedly this a slightly niche post for the weekend, but the shifting geographic boundaries in the movie below illustrates how rapidly national borders expand and contract as the result of political moves, social uprising or war:
German…
Continue reading »Ollie O’Brien’s work of the now widely featured Boris bikes visualisations gain a double page spread in this months Wired magazine.Image courtesy of Adrian ShortEmbedded below is a view of Ollie’s work as a timelapse to illustrate the distinctive week…
Continue reading »Over the past few years one of the PhD students I supervise here in CASA has been working on the way cities ‘tick’. Fabian Neuhaus is examining the temporal aspects of global cities and the results are interesting.One recent piece of work that caught o…
Continue reading »Here at University College London, the Grant Museum of Zoology, which contains some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world, is to re-open on 15 March, 2011 after an eight-month renovation and moving period. Over the past few months we have…
Continue reading »GEMMA is the latest in a series of geospatial projects from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, here at University College London.
We are experiencing a massive explosion of online geospatial data from many new and unconventional sources fro…
BBC Look East is calling for people in the East of England to find out their home broadband speed, as part of the TV programme’s week-long special – using our free SurveyMapper tool, at CASA, University College London, to collate and map the results i…
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Thanks to everyone who retweeted and entered the competition, we are pleased to announce the 3 winners:
CodeDependent
thesuitcasekid
imagineer360
If the winners could email us their address we will ship the books ou…
Dr Martin Austwick and Ollie O’Brien here in CASA have produced an updated version of the animation of Barclays Cycle Hire bikes on a typical weekday:Boris Bikes redux from Sociable Physics on Vimeo.The data for the bikes is courtesy of Transport for L…
Continue reading »Dr Martin Austwick and Ollie O’Brien here in CASA have produced an updated version of the animation of Barclays Cycle Hire bikes on a typical weekday:Boris Bikes redux from Sociable Physics on Vimeo.The data for the bikes is courtesy of Transport for L…
Continue reading »Last weekend the office here at CASA was taken over by the RepRap 3D printer build. The PayItForward team – a group of altruistic people who have RepRap machines, printing parts and gifting them to people who want to make a RepRap machine with the requ…
Continue reading »Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to virtually visit cities by navigating between immersive 360° panoramas, or bubbles. The discrete moves from bubble to bubble enabled in these systems do not provide a good visu…
Continue reading »The short below was developed by Lizzie Oxby, a multi-award winning director who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1996 to remind her of the joy of the New York skyline, the clip is based around three photographs:Manhattan 4.33pm from Lizzie …
Continue reading »Today sees the launch of our latest collaboration via the Tales of Things project – this time with a Norwegian transport company, Kolumbus. Tales of Things has been utilising Kolumbus’ already existing QR codes to allow passengers to leave stories …
Continue reading »The animation below details the real-time behaviour of hire bikes in London on October 4th 2010, the day of a major tube strike, and the busiest day for the scheme to date. Departure times and journey durations are real; routing is calculated from OSM …
Continue reading »Uniform have recently finished a short film on behalf of the Romanian real estate company Nova Imobiliare, the investment group behind The Colosseum project in Bucharest, Romania.
Uniform’s role was to develop a film that gave potential occupiers an…
Continue reading »The movie below provides a stunning view of Los Angeles at twilight. Recorded on a Canon S95 and running at 8x speed it allows you to appreciate the size and extensive network of the city:We note the authors (surfbum) reason for making the clip ‘main p…
Continue reading »Cities can be considered “flows of information, vehicles and people” (Sheller, 2007) transported along diverse urban networks. In the Flowprint of London below, the city’s extensive bus network is used to sketch an animated portrait of the living city,…
Continue reading »We have been sitting back recently and watching the various XBox Kinect hacks with interest. It was only a matter of time – 3D room scanning and model construction:
I find it amazing that you can pop into your local retail outlet and purchase a 3D s…
Continue reading »University College London – UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial AnalysisFull TimeThe appointment will be on UCL Grade 8, salary range will be £39,510 – £46,635 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, home of Dig…
Continue reading »*Update*
Thanks to everyone who retweeted and entered the competition, we are pleased to announce the 3 winners:
elliothartley
mschartley &
urbanorienteer
If the winners could email us their address we will ship the books out a…
Continue reading »We have just fallen in love with Google SketchUp all over again, we are slightly late to the table on this one but Google Building Maker is now fully integrated into SketchUp 8. It has the genius of Canoma with the addition of all the editing…
Continue reading »Yep thats the kind of application we hope people will use it for – as for the price point, its free :)<br /><br />Access for the blind is high on our list as well, we will have news soon as we can.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment.<br /><br />Andy
Continue reading »In general we know how to model buildings, thats not too tricky – ours in the render are simply placement models for the street network. <br/><br/>The tricky part is modeling traffic simulation within a city model using software that is not at the $$$ level
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