The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
In this book, I suggest that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, 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 […]
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At ECCS ’13 this morning, Elsa Arcaute, Lecturer in Urban Modelling in CASA, is talking about our work on city size using percolation theory which has analogies to Hernan Makse’s work on percolation and the brain. Click here for the programme and the paper in the Arxiv on which is it based. You can also […]
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For many years, almost from the time when Newton first presented his laws of gravitation, speculations and applications of the gravity model to human interactions have been made. In the 19th century, Carey and Ravenstein led the way with Reilly, Zipf, Stewart and Warntz and then Voorhees making major contributions in the early to mid […]
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New York Nerds Sift Citi Bike Data to Solve Availability
Businessweek … twice-a-day commute into the commercial centres will act to counter their effect,” said Oliver O’Brien, a research associate who studies more than 100 bikeshare networks worldwide at the University College of London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial … |
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Continue reading »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.
Continue reading »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.
Continue reading »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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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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“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.”
“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.”
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 →
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 →
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 →
A huge amount of energy is wasted each year in L […]
Continue reading »An evening talk for the Blackpool Geographical Association – 4th November 2013
Continue reading »Above is a small part of the “Wonderground Map of […]
Continue reading »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…
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…
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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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 »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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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 »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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| Image 1. Dr.Adam Dennett introduced the course outline on 2nd October, 2013 |
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| Image 1. Dr.Adam Dennett introduced the course outline on 2nd October, 2013 |
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A great new resource has just been released by the Well […]
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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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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 »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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A quick teaser of the Voight Kampff 3D model, currently under design…
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Continue reading »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
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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 … |
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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 … |
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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 … |
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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 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, 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 […]
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