The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
This conference is the seventh in a by-now very well established meeting held each June in Cambridge UK, which brings together those working on land use transport interaction/integration models (LUTI models) in the narrower sense and more generally on urban … Continue reading →
I gave two lectures on our smart cities projects to Geography at Nanjing Normal University and to a selection of researchers at Shenyang Jianzhu University drawn from architecture, urban planning, transport and GIS on the 25th and 27th September 2017. I … Continue reading →
A paper originating from our EU FP7 Insight project on extending land use transportation models to embrace better sub models of the retailing sector. Our paper entitled “Quantifying Retail Agglomeration using Diverse Spatial Data” by Duccio Piovani, Vassilis Zachariadis and … Continue reading →
2017 International Conference on GeoComputation: Celebrating 21 Years of GeoComputation 4-7 September at the University of Leeds Stan Openshaw and his colleagues set up the first meeting 21 years ago in Leeds and it returns there for its coming of age. … Continue reading →
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In November 1986 I visited SunYatSen University and gave a public lecture about Urban Modelling. China was a very different world then, no cars, no computers, no email, barely functioning electricity. And of course it was before laptops, networks, hand-held … Continue reading →
Giving a paper on Thursday 2nd June in London at Modelling World. Talking about Complexity in Land Use Transport Interaction (LUTI) Modelling, outlining very briefly our QUANT model for the Future Cities Catapult. This model is designed to simulate employment … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Yesterday I gave a talk on driven models to the Hong Kong Poly U Department of Land Surveying and Geomatics, and today at at 2-30pm in Geography at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. When I got to the Poly U yesterday – and I … Continue reading →
Continue reading »You may think that this blog has enough on ‘models’ to sink a ship and I have a new editorial on this in EPB. But there is a wonderful article by Paul Krugman on models which I have just come across although written two decades or so ago. Krugman … Continue reading →
Continue reading »A diverse selection of talks on the Science of Cities at the 2015 Conference on Complex Systems, starting this afternoon in the Sheraton Airport Hotel in Tempe AZ Canyon Room. My own talk is about our Future Cities Catapult Land … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Certainly one of the best books ever on transport modelling. We have been waiting for this sort of book for a long time. Anyone who wants to figure out the reasons why different kinds of transport model have been developed … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I first met Leo Kadanoff in Cambridge, England in the summer of 1974, I think. He would not remember me but he had been invited to give a talk on urban dynamics at the second Cambridge Land Use and Built … Continue reading →
Continue reading »40 years ago, Douglass B Lee published his notorious article “Requiem for Large Scale Models” in the Journal of the American Institute of Planners on the demise of the first generation of urban computer models in the United States. In … Continue reading →
Continue reading »So said the English statistician George Box with his colleague Norman Draper in his 1987 book Empirical Model Building. I saw him espouse this idea at the Royal Statistical Society in a lecture in the 1980s and the quote is … Continue reading →
Continue reading »This past week I have been giving the Israel Pollack distinguished lecture series at Technion in Haifa, the School of Architecture and Town Planning, talking about smart cities and big data (PDF here), and rank clocks and scaling (PDF here). … Continue reading →
Continue reading »A fascinating virtual lab pulling together research in urban science focussed on researchers from several Chinese universities and agencies in Beijing. From their site, they say “The Beijing City Lab (BCL) is a virtual research community, dedicated to studying, but … Continue reading →
Continue reading »We have a new EU FP7 project titled INSIGHT (Innovative Policy Modelling and Governance Tools for Sustainable Post-Crisis Urban Development). This is a research project funded under the ICT Theme of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme. INSIGHT aims to investigate … Continue reading →
Continue reading »CUSP – New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress – in launching their Masters program in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, have put together a fascinating course called Foundations of Urban Science which is being taught this fall by … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Read our editorial in the current issue of Transactions in GIS about “Applied Urban Modeling: New Types of Spatial Data Provide a Catalyst for New Models”. The issues contains four papers on recent developments in urban modelling originally presented at … Continue reading →
Continue reading »CASA members presented at this meeting which is being held at Dourdan near Paris September 6-9. Melanie Bosredon and Robin Morphet presented papers on their various models of land use systems and Mike Batty joined Wolfgang Weidlich and Peter Allen … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The first paper published on our Simulacra model from the Tyndall Cities project, modified to deal with energy change through transport costs in Greater London. Click here to access the paper in the current issue of Environment and Planning A … Continue reading →
Continue reading »It is a bit of a gamble to tell those who watch our CASA site that I have just started a new lecture course on Smart Cities that I am offering to graduates at ASU. A gamble because Smart Cities … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Gave a talk today to the Market Research Society’s meeting on “Generating Value from the 2011 Census: How business can benefit from the new free Census data”. The talk was a compilation of ideas developed by Ollie O’Brien, Steven Gray, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »CASA has a new EU (FP7: Future and Emerging Technologies) project called EUNOIA which is about Evolutive User-centric Networks fOr Intraurban Accessibility. The project will run from October 1st 2012 and is worth 268K Euros. It is part of a … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Check out the Future Cities Lab established by ETH Zurich in Singapore. Many projects dealing with every aspects of the city-state but relevant to our own work on land use transport and mobility is their MATSims model which is now running … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The header of this post is the subtitle of a new book The Future of Cities and Regions edited by Bazzanella, Caneparo, Corsico, and Roccasalva. Computation has finally drawn us to the point where planning support systems informed by simulation … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Today is the third session in our five session introduction to urban modelling and simulation. This will be about land use models and how we construct them from elements of spatial interaction submodels. And I will illustrate a worked example. … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Spatial Interaction from now on and I promised you a short piece that I had written as a general introduction but I don’t have it digitally. It is called “Spatial Interaction” in Encyclopaedia of Geographic Information Science edited by Karen … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The first session comprised an introduction to urban modelling. Essentially this introduced the term model across many different types as well as the model building process. I skipped a number of sections which I would like you to study. If … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Five sessions of 2 hours duration each, divided into nine lectures. It will introduce models, the ideas and their relationship to theory, science and practical problem solving. It will begin with spatial interaction, move to integrated land use transport models, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The last lecture! – you can download from Lecture 8 above or by clicking the icon left. This lecture does not quite do what I intended but reworks an earlier lecture of mine on land use transportation models focussing on … Continue reading →
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