Head squeeze – the science of winning
I was recently asked by the lovely chaps over at 360productions to make a little video for their youtube channel. So here I am talking about emergence, fish, traffic jams […]
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Interactive crime map of London – FT.com
Each of the 24,000 dots on this map of London has been coloured according to its most frequently reported crime between May 2012 and April 2013. During this period, more than 250,000 crimes were reported – the equivalent of one every two minutes…
Continue reading »Interactive crime map of London – FT.com
Each of the 24,000 dots on this map of London has been coloured according to its most frequently reported crime between May 2012 and April 2013. During this period, more than 250,000 crimes were reported – the equivalent of one every two minutes…
Continue reading »CASA Future Cities and Digital Technologies Conference – Free Event – September 27th
Cities have always been places where new technologies are invented but as more and more of the world’s population is living in cities, it is ever more urgent to consider their future. Cities are also being reinvented using new digital technologies and this one day conference will explore how CASA…
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Continue reading » Turning a Xen domU into a VMware VM (or: How to bring your Linode home)
I recently posted a HOWTO based on my experience moving a Xen domU from Linode to my own Xen Dom0 setup at Hetzner. Since this machine is only a development server, I more recently decided to turn the same machine into a VMware VM, running locally (in VMware Fusion 4 on my MacBook Pro). Here, […]
Continue reading »Turning a Xen domU into a VMware VM (or: How to bring your Linode home)
I recently posted a HOWTO based on my experience moving a Xen domU from Linode to my own Xen Dom0 setup at Hetzner. Since this machine is only a development server, I more recently decided to turn the same machine into a VMware VM, running locally (in VMware Fusion 4 on my MacBook Pro). Here, […]
Continue reading »Learn About Cellular Automata Models
Amin Tayyebi from the Energy Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has organized a collection of videos about land use change using Cellular Automata and related cell-space models and methods. He commissioned these individually and if you click on the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Crime Map of London
I was delighted to be asked to be part of the the Finan […]
Continue reading »Interactive crime map of London – Financial Times
Interactive crime map of LondonFinancial TimesYou can view the street-level data on the police.uk website. ——————————————-. James Cheshire is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. His special interest i…
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Interactive crime map of London
Financial Times James Cheshire is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. His special interest is in the analysis and visualisation of large population data sets. His work can be seen on his website, spatial.ly – for instance, his mapping of the … |
Interactive crime map of London – FT.com – Financial Times
Interactive crime map of London – FT.com Financial TimesEach of the 24000 dots on this map of London has been coloured according to its most frequently reported crime between May 2012 and April 2013. During this …
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Interactive crime map of London Financial TimesEach of the 24000 dots on this map of London has been coloured according to its most frequently reported crime between May 2012 and April 2013. During this …
Continue reading »Free Range exhibition & Welsh School of Architecture Exhibition
Image1.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City FREE Range exhibition had opened its door at Truman Brewery on Brick Lane where is a cultural headquarter of London. This exhibition was for undergraduate courses of fashion,…
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Free Range exhibition & Welsh School of Architecture Exhibition
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FREE Range exhibition had opened its door at Truman Brewery on Brick Lane where is a cultural headquarter of London. This exhibition was for undergraduate courses of fashion, design, photography & media, fine art and interior & architecture over the UK. It was started in 2001 and has been getting a reputation for one of famous cultural event in London. In this year, fashion courses kicked off their exhibition from May 31and interior & architecture courses ran its show from June 11 to 15. Twenty five universities across the country, including Glasgow, Dundee, LCC, Westminster and Manchester, set up their own booths and unfolded their ideas, talents and capacities. The universities might want to get a chance to show off their students into the largest market London in this disastrous recession.
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| Image2.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City |
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| Image3.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City |
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| Image7.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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The works of Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), Cardiff University was awesome and highly recommended from many architects who work in London. Although it is hard to compare directly to other universities because WSA exhibition consisted by the projects of masters’ students while others were bachelors’, seven units of WSA might not fall behind other schools in London. In fact, WSA was ranked as the second best department in GuardianUniversity Guide 2014 and they marked the same position with AA School in the list of the UK best architectureschool surveyed by Architects’ Journal.
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Image14.WSA Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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When it comes to me, the works of ‘Unit 7: Infrastructural Urbanism’, which explore reorganizing local identity in the process of changing urban industries, were particularly impressive. Usually, when we proceed urban design projects, we start first to overview macro urban structures, its development history, and regional issues and so on. Then, we reach the level of urban and architecture design what should make balances between abstract urban policy & specific physical design, macro urban patterns & micro human behaviours and economic feasibility & public value by design quality. At this point, lots of conflicts would be emerging, and it should be hard to reach agreeable point. Furthermore, when the work frame is changed such as from urban design to architecture design, logical connections between different types and scales of works would be weakened. We can say it as ‘logical jumping’. Networking City understands Unit 7 admitted the jumping could be appeared, however; they might try to know what the jumping would be there and how they could minimize the jumping at each development phase.
Elizabeth Venning’s work, Supportive infrastructures: Affordances between the DVLA and its locality at different scales, which examines new possibility of massive district of DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority) in Swansea City, well shows the characteristics of this unit. She investigates the way of redefining the physical and social relationship between DVLA area and local people through transforming and reorganizing some DVLA’s buildings and its programmes. In order to provide an effective strategy, she finds that there are six different levels including National scale, Regional scale and Household Scale behind the integrated complexity and each level has relevant policies, rules and orders that impact on the site. All policies, rules and orders at each level are analysed by Venning, and inter-relationship between levels and response plan are proposed with building plans in detail.
If you want to know more about Welsh School of Architecture and their exhibition, please visit this link.
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| Image15. Elizabeth Venning’s work. The image was taken by Networking City |
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| Image16. Venning’s diagram shows six different systems of the site. The image was taken by Networking City
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| Image17. Models and panels of WSA. The image was taken by Networking City |
Free Range exhibition & Welsh School of Architecture Exhibition
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| Image1.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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FREE Range exhibition had opened its door at Truman Brewery on Brick Lane where is a cultural headquarter of London. This exhibition was for undergraduate courses of fashion, design, photography & media, fine art and interior & architecture over the UK. It was started in 2001 and has been getting a reputation for one of famous cultural event in London. In this year, fashion courses kicked off their exhibition from May 31and interior & architecture courses ran its show from June 11 to 15. Twenty five universities across the country, including Glasgow, Dundee, LCC, Westminster and Manchester, set up their own booths and unfolded their ideas, talents and capacities. The universities might want to get a chance to show off their students into the largest market London in this disastrous recession.
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| Image2.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City |
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| Image3.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City |
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| Image4.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City |
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| Image5.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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| Image6.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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| Image7.Free range Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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The works of Welsh School of Architecture (WSA), Cardiff University was awesome and highly recommended from many architects who work in London. Although it is hard to compare directly to other universities because WSA exhibition consisted by the projects of masters’ students while others were bachelors’, seven units of WSA might not fall behind other schools in London. In fact, WSA was ranked as the second best department in GuardianUniversity Guide 2014 and they marked the same position with AA School in the list of the UK best architectureschool surveyed by Architects’ Journal.
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| Image9.WSA Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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| Image10.WSA Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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| Image11.WSA Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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| Image12.WSA Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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| Image13.WSA Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City |
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Image14.WSA Exhibition place. The image was taken by Networking City
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When it comes to me, the works of ‘Unit 7: Infrastructural Urbanism’, which explore reorganizing local identity in the process of changing urban industries, were particularly impressive. Usually, when we proceed urban design projects, we start first to overview macro urban structures, its development history, and regional issues and so on. Then, we reach the level of urban and architecture design what should make balances between abstract urban policy & specific physical design, macro urban patterns & micro human behaviours and economic feasibility & public value by design quality. At this point, lots of conflicts would be emerging, and it should be hard to reach agreeable point. Furthermore, when the work frame is changed such as from urban design to architecture design, logical connections between different types and scales of works would be weakened. We can say it as ‘logical jumping’. Networking City understands Unit 7 admitted the jumping could be appeared, however; they might try to know what the jumping would be there and how they could minimize the jumping at each development phase.
Elizabeth Venning’s work, Supportive infrastructures: Affordances between the DVLA and its locality at different scales, which examines new possibility of massive district of DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority) in Swansea City, well shows the characteristics of this unit. She investigates the way of redefining the physical and social relationship between DVLA area and local people through transforming and reorganizing some DVLA’s buildings and its programmes. In order to provide an effective strategy, she finds that there are six different levels including National scale, Regional scale and Household Scale behind the integrated complexity and each level has relevant policies, rules and orders that impact on the site. All policies, rules and orders at each level are analysed by Venning, and inter-relationship between levels and response plan are proposed with building plans in detail.
If you want to know more about Welsh School of Architecture and their exhibition, please visit this link.
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| Image15. Elizabeth Venning’s work. The image was taken by Networking City |
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| Image16. Venning’s diagram shows six different systems of the site. The image was taken by Networking City
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| Image17. Models and panels of WSA. The image was taken by Networking City |
Map of the Complexity Sciences
Above is a small extract of an interesting roadmap (also printable PDF version) from the Art & Science Factory, produced by Dr Brian Castellani. It was first posted back in early 2009, this is the fifth edition published earlier this month. It shows connections between the different strands of the Complexity Sciences and how they […]
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Simplifying London’s Network – “Mappi Lundi”, A Hand Drawn Map
Mappa Lundi is a hand-drawn map of central London which […]
Continue reading »How many people in the crowd?
Protests, presidential inaugurations and celebrations all attract large crowds, but how do you know how many people are there?See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »How many people in the crowd?
Protests, presidential inaugurations and celebrations all attract large crowds, but how do you know how many people are there?See it on Scoop.it, via Spatial Analysis
Continue reading »Chicago’s Divvy Bike Share System Ridership Grows as Stations Added – eNews Park Forest
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Chicago’s Divvy Bike Share System Ridership Grows as Stations Added
eNews Park Forest … percentage of available bikes in use, beating the popular systems of Rio de Janeiro, Taipei and New York City, according to researchers at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), an interdisciplinary research group at University College … |
Chicago’s Divvy Bike Share System Ridership Grows as Stations Added – eNews Park Forest
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Chicago’s Divvy Bike Share System Ridership Grows as Stations Added
eNews Park Forest … percentage of available bikes in use, beating the popular systems of Rio de Janeiro, Taipei and New York City, according to researchers at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), an interdisciplinary research group at University College … |
ESRI Urban Observatory- the right model for city crowdsourcing?
This month ESRI made an interesting move into the field of global city data with the launch of Urban Observatory (TM). The site has some great interactive visualisation ideas with simultaneous mapping of three interchangeable cities, linked navigation and indicator selection. It provides an intuitive interface to explore the diverse forms of world cities- Furthermore this … Continue reading →
ESRI Urban Observatory- the right model for city crowdsourcing?
This month ESRI made an interesting move into the field of global city data with the launch of Urban Observatory (TM). The site has some great interactive visualisation ideas with simultaneous mapping of three interchangeable cities, linked navigation and indicator selection. It provides an intuitive interface to explore the diverse forms of world cities- Furthermore this … Continue reading →
ESRI Urban Observatory- the right model for city crowdsourcing?
This month ESRI made an interesting move into the field of global city data with the launch of Urban Observatory (TM). The site has some great interactive visualisation ideas with simultaneous mapping of three interchangeable cities, linked navigation and indicator selection. It provides an intuitive interface to explore the diverse forms of world cities- Furthermore this … Continue reading →
Steel-cutting for 78m PSV in Southeast Shipyard
On May 19, the steel-cutting for the 9th and 10th 78m platform supply vessel was held in Fujian Southeast Shipyard, the 2 vessels are expected to be delivered in the 2nd half of 2014.
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Map algebra with callbacks in PostGIS 2.1
I’ve been playing with the much-enhanced raster support in PostGIS 2.1 in the last few days. Amongst other things I’ve been producing maps with ST_MapAlgebra, which has changed a little since 2.0. The example callback function in the documentation is somewhat unhelpfully bare-bones: it always returns 0, touching none of its arguments. So here’s an […]
Continue reading »Map algebra with callbacks in PostGIS 2.1
I’ve been playing with the much-enhanced raster support in PostGIS 2.1 in the last few days. Amongst other things I’ve been producing maps with ST_MapAlgebra, which has changed a little since 2.0. The example callback function in the documentation is somewhat unhelpfully bare-bones: it always returns 0, touching none of its arguments. So here’s an […]
Continue reading »Resilience: How Quickly Can City Systems Bounce Back
AESOP-ACSP is the joint European and American Associations of Planning Schools conference held this year in Dublin at UCD. The theme is resilience in cities and how planning might best respond to it. This is a popular term and is … Continue reading →
Continue reading »MapTube Census 2011
The Census 2011 boundary files for the OA, LSOA and MSOA geographies have just been added to the MapTube tile server, so it’s now possible to make maps from the new Census data. The following is the first example using the population density table: MapTube showing population density (people per hectare) from the 2011 …
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Violent Crime Hotspots in London
This is an extract of a map, by Matt Ashby of the UCL S […]
Continue reading »Can Maths Predict a Riot?
Hannah Fry, CASA‘s own Lecturer in the Mathematic […]
Continue reading »Northern Ireland in Transition 1991-2011: Two fully-funded PhD studentships
TweetBackground Two fully-funded PhD studentships are to be offered by QUB as part of the successful application to the ESRC to fund the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Research Support Unit (NILS-RSU) from 2012 to 2017. These will be focused around the general theme of ‘Northern Ireland in Transition 1991-2011’. This is a key part of […]
Continue reading »How do you work out the size of a crowd? – BBC News
BBC NewsHow do you work out the size of a crowd?BBC News… their opposition to President Morsi before he was ousted by the army. But are those numbers right? Estimating the size of a crowd is a difficult business. Hannah Fry, from the Centre for Advan…
Continue reading »Hot Temperatures and Train Delays
It’s been hot in London today, as you can see from the temperature data, obtained from the Met Office Datapoint site: Air Temperature for 16:00 BST (local time). Full map available at: http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?mapid=1276 What isn’t immediately apparent is that the temperature in London was around 30C from mid-morning until the evening and the sustained temperatures …
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BBC Local Live: Updates from London on Tuesday 16 July – BBC News
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BBC Local Live: Updates from London on Tuesday 16 July
BBC News Hannah Fry, from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, explains why estimating the size of a crowd is a difficult business. Sport 0913: Chelsea’s Eden Hazard says Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney would be a … |
How do you work out the size of a crowd? – BBC News
How do you work out the size of a crowd? BBC News
Continue reading »How do you work out the size of a crowd? – BBC News
How do you work out the size of a crowd? BBC News
Continue reading »How do you work out the size of a crowd? – BBC News
How do you work out the size of a crowd? BBC NewsThe recent protests in Egypt were said to have been the biggest uprising in human history, with more than 30 million people taking to the streets to voice their …
Continue reading »Drone Flight
Latest install into the lab has been a Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 which are flown using wifi and an iPad or iPhone app. This drone has both a forward facing and base camera which can be used to record flights / survey. First impression is that this is pretty …
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