15 awesome 3D-printed objects have ever been realized – TNW
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15 awesome 3D-printed objects have ever been realized – The Next Web
15 awesome 3D-printed objects have ever been realized The Next WebEveryone’s getting into the 3D printing craze.To help you get inspired by the ‘next big thing,’ here are 15 of the best 3D-printed items from this year.
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15 awesome 3D-printed objects have ever been realized The Next WebEveryone’s getting into the 3D printing craze.To help you get inspired by the ‘next big thing,’ here are 15 of the best 3D-printed items from this year.
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15 awesome 3D-printed objects have ever been realized The Next WebEveryone’s getting into the 3D printing craze.To help you get inspired by the ‘next big thing,’ here are 15 of the best 3D-printed items from this year.
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China, the world’s great agriculture consumer
The great thing about having access to the entirety of the UN’s commodity trade database is that you can ask any kind of question you wish of the data. For example, here’s a network representation of trade flows throughout the entire world in agricultural products in 2010. Bigger, more purple nodes are the ones with […]
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The New Science of Cities
Readers of this blog may be interested in Michael Batty’s new book “The New Science of Cities” which has just been published by MIT Press. To quote from the publisher:
“Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks—the relations between objects that comprise the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces theories and methods that reveal the deep structure of how cities function.”
There is a detailed description of the books content on Mike’s web site www.complexcity.info. The website also hosts numerous papers and books that Mike has written over his many years as a leading urban modeler in all its shapes and forms.
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The New Science of Cities
Readers of this blog may be interested in Michael Batty’s new book “The New Science of Cities” which has just been published by MIT Press. To quote from the publisher:
“Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks—the relations between objects that comprise the system of the city. Drawing on the complexity sciences, social physics, urban economics, transportation theory, regional science, and urban geography, and building on his own previous work, Batty introduces theories and methods that reveal the deep structure of how cities function.”
There is a detailed description of the books content on Mike’s web site www.complexcity.info. The website also hosts numerous papers and books that Mike has written over his many years as a leading urban modeler in all its shapes and forms.
Continue reading » Rio de Janeiro: a City in Transformation
The 2013 Urban Age conference took place in Rio de Janeiro on the 24th-25th October. The LSE Cities research team have spent recent months learning about Rio and the fascinating changes this city is undergoing. It’s a city right in the eye of the storm of current debates in urban studies, relating to poverty, urban … Continue reading →
Rio de Janeiro: a City in Transformation
The 2013 Urban Age conference took place in Rio de Janeiro on the 24th-25th October. The LSE Cities research team have spent recent months learning about Rio and the fascinating changes this city is undergoing. It’s a city right in the eye of the storm of current debates in urban studies, relating to poverty, urban … Continue reading →
Rio de Janeiro: a City in Transformation
The 2013 Urban Age conference took place in Rio de Janeiro on the 24th-25th October. The LSE Cities research team have spent recent months learning about Rio and the fascinating changes this city is undergoing. It’s a city right in the eye of the storm of current debates in urban studies, relating to poverty, urban … Continue reading →
London’s Wasted Heat
A huge amount of energy is wasted each year in L […]
Continue reading »Advances in Geographic Information Science and the Population of Blackpool
An evening talk for the Blackpool Geographical Association – 4th November 2013
Continue reading »Wonderground Map
Above is a small part of the “Wonderground Map of […]
Continue reading »Future Cities Finance Initiative Announced in Partnership with Level39
Cities are clearly the topic of the moment, be it Smart/Future/Sustainable/Computable, the concept is moving towards a new understanding of our urban world and with it an opening up of new social and economic opportunities. There has never been a better time to look into the research and commercial opportunities…
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Continue reading » Future Cities Finance Initiative Announced in Partnership with Level39
Cities are clearly the topic of the moment, be it Smart/Future/Sustainable/Computable, the concept is moving towards a new understanding of our urban world and with it an opening up of new social and economic opportunities. There has never been a better time to look into the research and commercial opportunities…
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Mediating Emotion
Everyday life is full of emotion. We react to situations, conversations, sudden events and elements of our environment in affective ways. As the Neuropsychologist Antonio Damasio complellingly argued[1], emotions, such as pleasure and preference, are intrinsic aspects of making decisions, from the mundane to the extraordinary. Above all, however emotion […]
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A hive plot of hospitality received by Coalition Special Advisers
With political transparency an increasingly topical subject in the wake of press scandals and allegations of official coverup, it is a useful exercise to examine any data reflecting the interaction between our leaders and our purveyors of news. Since taking power the UK coalition government has published records of hospitality received by Special Advisers – […]
Continue reading »A hive plot of hospitality received by Coalition Special Advisers
With political transparency an increasingly topical subject in the wake of press scandals and allegations of official coverup, it is a useful exercise to examine any data reflecting the interaction between our leaders and our purveyors of news. Since taking power the UK coalition government has published records of hospitality received by Special Advisers – […]
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A hive plot of hospitality received by Coalition Special Advisers
With political transparency an increasingly topical subject in the wake of press scandals and allegations of official coverup, it is a useful exercise to examine any data reflecting the interaction between our leaders and our purveyors of news. Since taking power the UK coalition government has published records of hospitality received by Special Advisers – […]
Continue reading »GIS Course Note 01: Spatial is Special
Image 1. Dr.Adam Dennett introduced the course outline on 2nd October, 2013From this academic term, Networking City is doing a teaching assistant role for ‘GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SCIENCE’ course which is set up by CASA for their prov…
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GIS Course Note 01: Spatial is Special
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| Image 1. Dr.Adam Dennett introduced the course outline on 2nd October, 2013 |
From this academic term, Networking City is doing a teaching assistant role for ‘GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SCIENCE’ course which is set up by CASA for their provocative master programme ‘MResAdvanced Spatial Analysis & Visualisation’ and Bartlett students. In this year, the course is opened to Urban Planning and DPU students of Bartlett, so thirty students registered, while fifteen students who were mostly from the CASA had an opportunity last year.
Dr. Adam Dennett, the lecturer, briefly showed the outline of the course and explained the meaning of studying spatial analysis, definition of Geographic Information System, linkage between GIS and scientific research, the difference between GISystems and GIScience, and short history of GIS.
During one hour his lecture, the most impressive part was what the meaning of information is in Geography and Urban studies, and how it can make an impact on decision making process. When he illustrated the structure of how one spatial data could be developed to information, knowledge and wisdom, and could be the initial point which change our environments, he emphasised not to make a graphic image by GIS programmes but to consider the meaning behind the data.
After the lecture, the students had two-hour practical session. They operated the main programmes of the course: Arc-GIS, QGIS and R on UCL computers, and checked how they can set up the programmes on their own laptops. In order to learn basic knowledge and functions of Arc-GIS, Adam recommended registering My Virtual CampusTraining on ESRI homepage and complete its modules.
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GIS Course Note 01: Spatial is Special
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| Image 1. Dr.Adam Dennett introduced the course outline on 2nd October, 2013 |
From this academic term, Networking City is doing a teaching assistant role for ‘GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SCIENCE’ course which is set up by CASA for their provocative master programme ‘MResAdvanced Spatial Analysis & Visualisation’ and Bartlett students. In this year, the course is opened to Urban Planning and DPU students of Bartlett, so thirty students registered, while fifteen students who were mostly from the CASA had an opportunity last year.
Dr. Adam Dennett, the lecturer, briefly showed the outline of the course and explained the meaning of studying spatial analysis, definition of Geographic Information System, linkage between GIS and scientific research, the difference between GISystems and GIScience, and short history of GIS.
During one hour his lecture, the most impressive part was what the meaning of information is in Geography and Urban studies, and how it can make an impact on decision making process. When he illustrated the structure of how one spatial data could be developed to information, knowledge and wisdom, and could be the initial point which change our environments, he emphasised not to make a graphic image by GIS programmes but to consider the meaning behind the data.
After the lecture, the students had two-hour practical session. They operated the main programmes of the course: Arc-GIS, QGIS and R on UCL computers, and checked how they can set up the programmes on their own laptops. In order to learn basic knowledge and functions of Arc-GIS, Adam recommended registering My Virtual CampusTraining on ESRI homepage and complete its modules.
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London’s Health
A great new resource has just been released by the Well […]
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Pan-London London Traffic Flows Map
As an update to the London Cycling Census map that I mentioned in the last post, here is a map based on similar data collected by the Department of Transport during 2012. The map covers the whole of London, over 3000 datapoints – in fact the underlying data is available for the major road network […]
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Pan-London London Traffic Flows Map
As an update to the London Cycling Census map that I mentioned in the last post, here is a map based on similar data collected by the Department of Transport during 2012. The map covers the whole of London, over 3000 datapoints – in fact the underlying data is available for the major road network […]
Continue reading »Data Hacking and the City Workshop: UCL CASA Conference 2013
At UCL CASA our main focus of research is cities and how, as a population we use our cities daily. My main interest is discovering and analysing the hidden city through our daily interactions on social media, blogs, and crowd sourcing data that’…
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VK Teaser
A quick teaser of the Voight Kampff 3D model, currently under design…
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Continue reading »Smart Cities
This is the first book on ‘smart cities’. It is a deep and thoughtful critique, as well as an absorbing and personal account. Anthony Townsend tells us how computers and their software and services are being embedded into cities, how we … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work – Salon
Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work Salon
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Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work
Salon In a paper published in the Journal of Transport Geography this summer, Oliver O’Brien, James Cheshire and Michael Batty, of University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, compared the design and use of bike share systems in 38 … |
Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work – Salon
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Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work
Salon In a paper published in the Journal of Transport Geography this summer, Oliver O’Brien, James Cheshire and Michael Batty, of University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, compared the design and use of bike share systems in 38 … |
Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work – Salon
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Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work
Salon Last year, a German landscape architect named Alexander Dunkel built an unusual map of San Francisco. Harnessing data from Flickr to map both geotags (where a photo was taken) and tags (what a photo was taken of), Dunkel was able to chart the city’s … |
Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work – Salon
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Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work
Salon In a paper published in the Journal of Transport Geography this summer, Oliver O’Brien, James Cheshire and Michael Batty, of University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, compared the design and use of bike share systems in 38 … |
Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work – Salon
Perfecting bike share: Some day we’ll all ride to work SalonLast year, a German landscape architect named Alexander Dunkel built an unusual map of San Francisco. Harnessing data from Flickr to map both geotags …
Continue reading »Big data, big ball-ache
Big data, yeah? It’s great isn’t it? Doesn’t everyone just love to have loads of big data all over the place? Got 30 million customers in the UK, have you? Each of those customers purchasing thousands of products a year, yeah? Screw it, lets just store ALL that information in a massive database. It’s big […]
Continue reading »Cinematic Mapping
I recently posted a great visualisation showing 24 hour […]
Continue reading »Cinematic Mapping
I recently posted a great visualisation showing 24 hour […]
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New Paper: Measuring Slum Severity in Mumbai and Kolkata
In a move to understand slums, we have switch gears slightly from agent-based modeling to a more statistical study of slums. To this end we have just received word that our paper entitled “Measuring Slum Severity in Mumbai and Kolkata: A Househol…
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New Paper: Measuring Slum Severity in Mumbai and Kolkata
In a move to understand slums, we have switch gears slightly from agent-based modeling to a more statistical study of slums. To this end we have just received word that our paper entitled “Measuring Slum Severity in Mumbai and Kolkata: A Househol…
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