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Hot Temperatures and Train Delays

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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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Drone Flight

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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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Animating Global Innovation Diffusion- Public Transport

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We know that knowledge networks and intensive competition within cities boosts innovation. There are also further scales to this dynamic. The networks and competition between cities at regional and global scales promotes the adoption of new ideas- as cities buy, borrow and adapt ideas from their competitors. It’s this latter global dynamic that we’re exploring … Continue reading →

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CASA Seminar: Parameterizing land use planning by Talia Kaufmann

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Image1.Talia Kaufmann gave the presentation at CASA Lunchtime Seminar. The image was taken by Networking City.

 On 10th July 11, 2013, CASA Lunch Seminar was commenced in The Rockefeller Building. Talia Kaufmann, who is a visiting student from MIT Master in City Planning, provided her current research ‘Parameterizing land use planning’. After she finished her bachelor degree in Architecture Tel-Aviv University, Israel and worked as an urban planner for the Tel Aviv-Yafo City Planning Department.

Throughout the presentation, she showed brilliant ideas and cool images. Also, some arguable points were emerging in her presentation, and the considerable discussion between audiences and Talia was continued.

For example, one of her main idea is to randomly capture Google Street View images from several targeting cities and ask people to answer their sense of images. And it becomes the score of each city. The audiences questioned about the precondition of the idea. Can we measure the feeling of the city by just watching some images? Would there be the gap between the feeling of Street View images and the true feeling of cities? Is there any delicate setting for cultural backgrounds and individual subjectivity of participants?

This seminar could be a good opportunity for her to listen others’ comments, articulate the ideas and develop many possibilities of her research.
 

 

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CASA Seminar: Parameterizing land use planning by Talia Kaufmann

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Image1.Talia Kaufmann gave the presentation at CASA Lunchtime Seminar. The image was taken by Networking City.

 On 10th July 11, 2013, CASA Lunch Seminar was commenced in The Rockefeller Building. Talia Kaufmann, who is a visiting student from MIT Master in City Planning, provided her current research ‘Parameterizing land use planning’. After she finished her bachelor degree in Architecture Tel-Aviv University, Israel and worked as an urban planner for the Tel Aviv-Yafo City Planning Department.

Throughout the presentation, she showed brilliant ideas and cool images. Also, some arguable points were emerging in her presentation, and the considerable discussion between audiences and Talia was continued.

For example, one of her main idea is to randomly capture Google Street View images from several targeting cities and ask people to answer their sense of images. And it becomes the score of each city. The audiences questioned about the precondition of the idea. Can we measure the feeling of the city by just watching some images? Would there be the gap between the feeling of Street View images and the true feeling of cities? Is there any delicate setting for cultural backgrounds and individual subjectivity of participants?

This seminar could be a good opportunity for her to listen others’ comments, articulate the ideas and develop many possibilities of her research.
 

 

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Gartner’s hype cycle and citizen science

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The term ‘Citizen Science’ is clearly gaining more recognition and use. It is now get mentioned in radio and television broadcasts, social media channels as well as conferences and workshops. Some of the clearer signs for the growing attention include discussion of citizen science in policy oriented conferences such as UNESCO’s World Summit on Information Society […]

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Tweet City: Building Heights by Number of Tweets Movie (London)

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What if London’s buildings grew according to the amount of data they generate? Stephan Hügel (@urschrei) and Flora Roumpani (@en_topia) two of our PhD students from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been working on a system to read in twitter data to CityEngine and link the geo…

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Two New Lecturer Posts in CASA – Closing Date 12th July

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We are pleased to announce two new lecturer posts here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis: Lecturer in Urban Analytics- Ref:1345485  and Lecturer in Spatial Modelling and Complexity – Ref:1345477  Closing Date 12 Jul 2013 Latest time for the submission of applications 2pm About CASA The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)…

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