Category: Publications

A Compact City for the Wealthy? Continuing Inner London Gentrification and Impacts on Accessibility Inequalities

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We have a new open access paper out in the Journal of Transport Geography- “A compact city for the wealthy? Employment accessibility inequalities between occupational classes in the London metropolitan region 2011“. The paper explores how the increasingly affluent nature of Inner London has improved sustainable travel opportunities for more affluent professional and management classes, … Continue reading A Compact City for the Wealthy? Continuing Inner London Gentrification and Impacts on Accessibility Inequalities →

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accessibility, gentrification, london, Public Transport, Publications, sustainability, Transport

Global Prospects for a Post-Car World

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Earlier this year I worked on some charts and maps for a Greenpeace report authored by sustainable transport academic Robin Hickman, exploring the impacts of automobile dependence and the prospects for a post-car world. The report is online here. The much debated phenomenon of ‘peak-car’ can be observed in many countries in the global north, … Continue reading Global Prospects for a Post-Car World →

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comparative urbanism, Publications, sustainability, Transport

Environment & Planning Featured Graphic: World City Populations Time-Series Map

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The World City Populations Interactive Map is now available as a static map, and has been published as a Featured Graphic in Environment and Planning A. The EPA article includes details on the UN World Urbanization Prospects data, and the methods used to create the map. For a high resolution version of the static map, click below-

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global cities, mapping, Publications, visualisation

Telefonica (02) plans to explore Big Data

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Telecommunication companies are sitting on a gold mine. With the prevalence of mobile devices in our every day life, for example reports from Google IO are that 400 million Android devices have been activated at a rate of 1,000,000 activations per day, the data that we generate as a collective group is phenomenal. Phone companies […]

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Articles, Big Data, data mining, data processing, Publications, Research

Paper on Netnography of Migration and Citizenship

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Residence vs. Ancestry in Acquisition of Spanish Citizenship: A Netnography Approach Pablo Mateos and Jorge Durand Access to a nationality from a European union (EU) country has become a key migration strategy for people from outside the eu and their families. This … Continue reading →

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@Kozinets, #NSMNSS, citizenship, discussion forum, internet, Latin America, migration, netnography, new social science methods, News, Publications, Spain

Paper published in PLOS ONE

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Forget Social Networks, our names link us together in cultural and ethnic communities worldwide Our forenames and surnames are connected into distinct global networks of cultural, ethnic and linguistic communities. These are revealed for the first time y a team … Continue reading →

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ethnicity, linguistics, names, network clustering, New Zealand, News, PLoS ONE, Publications, Social Networks, surnames, worldnames

New Paper: An Internet of Old Things as an Augmented Memory System

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Spinger have published, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, a paper by Ralph Barthel, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Angelina Karpovich, Martin de Jode and Chris Speed based around our TOTeM/Intern…

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Augmented memory system, Digital Economy, internet of things, narrative, Papers/Thesis, Publications, QR codes, RFID tags, Semantic web, tales of things

New Paper: An Internet of Old Things as an Augmented Memory System

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Spinger have published, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, a paper by Ralph Barthel, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Angelina Karpovich, Martin de Jode and Chris Speed based around our TOTeM/Intern…

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Augmented memory system, Digital Economy, internet of things, narrative, Papers/Thesis, Publications, QR codes, RFID tags, Semantic web, tales of things

Population Space and Place – virtual issue in honour of Bob Woods

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Exploring population analysis in geography: essays in honour of Professor Robert WoodsPaul Boyle and Allan FindlayJuly 2011 In 1979 Bob Woods published a landmark text Population Analysis in Geography that boldly stated that ‘traditional methods used for studying population geography are out of date: simple analysis and description are no longer adequate’ (Woods, 1979, 279 […]

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Announcements/ News, Journals, Publications

London Twitter Map

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We have been working hard here at CASA lately, building tools to collect, analyse and visualise different data sets from all over the web. One piece of software that has proven quite popular over the past few months is our internal Twitter Collector. The collector mines Twitter for tweets inside a geographical radius either with […]

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Crowd Sourcing, data mining, Featured, Publications, twitter, visualisations, web