The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
EastLondonLinesREVEALED: Map shows how EastLondonLines boroughs were hit hardest by …EastLondonLinesThese experts are based at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), a unit in the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University Coll…
Continue reading »Robin Edwards, a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, has used Processing to create a visualisation using data from OpenFlights.org. The clip below visualises approx 50,000 active flight-paths,interpolating motion along great circle paths for dynamic effect: Robin notes that it […]
Continue reading »Robin Edwards, a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, has used Processing to create a visualisation using data from OpenFlights.org.
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Continue reading »Peter Hall’s 80th Birthday Symposium resumes in UCL’s Archaeology Lecture Theatre 9-30am. Heavy hitters Andreas Faludi David Banister et al. continue the dialogue. Mike Hebbert gives the ‘Peter Hall’ lecture this evening in the Darwin at 18-3…
Continue reading »REVEALED: Map shows how EastLondonLines boroughs were hit … EastLondonLines
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce the publication of the following issue: Future Internet, Volume 4, Issue 2 (June 2012), Pages Pages 362-617 http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/2/ Table of Contents: Line Lundvoll NilsenArticle: Collaboration between Professionals: The Use of Videoconferencing for Delivering E-HealthFuture Internet 2012, 4(2), 362-371; doi:10.3390/fi4020362http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/2/362/Sean Kennedy, Owen Molloy, Robert Stewart, Paul Jacob, Maria Maleshkova and Frank […]
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce the publication of the following issue:
Future Internet, Volume 4, Issue 2 (June 2012), Pages Pages 362-617
http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/2/
Table of Contents:
Line Lundvoll NilsenArticle: Collaboration between Pro…
[Updated] I’ll be presenting at Velo-City in Vancouver later this week. Velo-City is the “world’s premier cycling planning conference”. It is likely to have a significant bike-sharing flavour – the lead sponsor being PBSC which designed the 6000-odd “Boris Bikes” (aka Barclays Cycle Hire bikes) that are a distinctive sight in central London, as well […]
Continue reading »So, last week our students submitted their group projects for the CASA ASAV MRes*, following on from successful presentations the week before. This year there were two teams, unimaginatively titled Group A and Group B. Perhaps we could have thought … Continue reading →
Today and tomorrow (June 26-27) in the Darwin Lecture Theatre at UCL, there is a celebration of Peter’s work: Peter Hall and the Planning Imagination. Here’s the program. Here is my own contribution on complexity and planning.
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Continue reading »Urban research The laws of the city The EconomistNO FACE looks alike, but human bodies and their genetic make-up are almost identical. Cities too have distinctive charms—but are surprisingly alike behind …
Continue reading »The laws of the city – Urban research The EconomistNO FACE looks alike, but human bodies and their genetic make-up are almost identical. Cities too have distinctive charms—but are surprisingly alike behind …
Continue reading »The laws of the city The EconomistNO FACE looks alike, but human bodies and their genetic make-up are almost identical. Cities too have distinctive charms—but are surprisingly alike behind …
Continue reading »This is an extract of a map produced in 1928 for London […]
Continue reading »As part of the on-going ANTS project (Adaptive Networks for Complex Transport Systems) we’ve been tracking how many London buses are running during today’s bus strike. This is a very new development which we only just got working in time, so we don’t have any baseline data to compare against yet, but the two maps … Read more →
Continue reading »In researching for my talk at Peter Hall’s 80th Birthday Symposium this coming Monday in UCL’s Darwin Lecture Theatre, I came across Raymond Unwin’s book Town Planning in Practice – An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs … Continue reading →
Continue reading »At the end of 2010, Matt Wilson (University of Kentucky) and Mark Graham(Oxford Internet Institute), started coordinating a special issue of Environment and Planning Adedicated to ‘Situating Neogeography’, asking ‘How might we situate neogeography? What are the various assemblages, networks, ecologies, configurations, discourses, cyborgs, alliances that enable/enact these technologies?’ My response to this call is […]
A deluge of data makes cities laboratories for those seeking to run them better. Nice summary from Ludwig Siegele in this week’s Economist, online version I think. Merging smart cities and new scaling laws. And reference to the forthcoming meeting … Continue reading →
Continue reading »There have been some wonderful flow maps appearing online recently, such as Paul Butler’s global…
Continue reading »I’ve always had a problem with the pervasive assumption in transportation research that everyone takes the shortest metric distance path when travelling between A and B. This idea doesn’t seem to have any solid foundations in research, and intuiti…
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The TfL Countdown API for buses was released a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been experimenting with it for the ANTS project so that we can add real-time bus tracking to the Tube, River Services and National Rail libraries. The ultimate aim of the ANTS project is to show how failures affect multi-modal flows, … Read more →
Continue reading »I recently needed to calculate a SHA1 hash in an iOS app. In iOS4+ it’s possible to use CommonCrypto, but Mappiness has always supported iOS3. I therefore added NSData and NSString categories to a public domain C implementation instead. This remains public domain: do with it what you will. It relies on a hex-encoding category […]
Continue reading »The Guardian Science Weekly podcast is dedicated to Citizen Science – another example of the growing interest in popular media in Citizen Science. However, the podcast conflate cases were non-professional scientists are involved in scientific project (and Chris Lintott discuss Galaxy Zoo, FoldIt and similar projects) with participation in scientific research through surveys. It is […]
TweetAn opportunity has arisen for a student to undertake Ph.D. research at the University College London Doctoral Training Centre on a retail topic relevant to the ‘Retail Research and Data’ initiative. The work will be co-sponsored by the Co-Operative Group Limited and will investigate “Open data for improved geodemographic classifications”. An outline summary of the […]
Continue reading »The 37 minute film below by D-Fuse and Illustrious Company has been commissioned to make a new immersive visual and sound installation, to be presented as part of the opening of the revitalised and refurbished National Film Theatre, BFI Southbank. Designed as a large scale piece of public art, the work will be projected onto […]
Continue reading »The 37 minute film below by D-Fuse and Illustrious Company has been commissioned to make a new immersive visual and sound installation, to be presented as part of the opening of the revitalised and refurbished National Film Theatre, BFI Southbank. Desi…
Continue reading »The movie below by Sean Dooley showcases the city of Philadelphia via a series of timelapses captured over a 10 week period. It details some of the most iconic places in the city:
Philadelphia: a city in motion from Sean Dooley on Vimeo.
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Continue reading »The movie below by Sean Dooley showcases the city of Philadelphia via a series of timelapses captured over a 10 week period. It details some of the most iconic places in the city:
Philadelphia: a city in motion from Sean Dooley o…
Continue reading »My talk at CPGIS this morning is about how we might use all our new flow data to build new models to explore how city systems fail. This is more a talk about what we would like to do, rather … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetLecturer in the Geography of Migration – SK4745 Description School of Geography and Geosciences, Department of Geography and Sustainable Development,£37,012 – £45,486 per annum, Start: as soon as possible Details Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in the Geography of Migration which is attached to the ESRC-funded Centre for Population Change whose Scottish […]
Continue reading »This wonderful map (above is just an extract) has been […]
Continue reading »Here is the API documentation for CityDashboard. It’s really not a very advanced API, and it’s not delivered in a “proper” format (e.g. XML or JSON), instead it’s available as a number of CSV/TXT-formatted files. It ain’t pretty but it … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Mind the Map exhibition, at the London Transport Mu […]
Continue reading »Geoff West of the Santa Fe Institute talks about scaling, networks and cities, emphasizing that cities scale more than proportionately with respect to creative pursuits, inventions, patents, specialist services and income. Watch the video on YouT…
Continue reading »‘City in the sky’ is a concept about an imaginary tranquil oasis above the mega-developed and polluted city, where one can escape from the everyday noise and stress. It was developed as part of the ‘Megatropolis’ project, which started in London with few companies and artists, invited to create their own visions for the future mega-developed city. The […]
Continue reading »‘City in the sky’ is a concept about an imaginary tranquil oasis above the mega-developed and polluted city, where one can escape from the everyday noise and stress. It was developed as part of the ‘Megatropolis’ project, which started in Lon…
Continue reading »While planning out some future research in the office this morning the conversation turned to low cost drones with 720p recording. The movie below provides a glimpse of a possible future purchase – the Parrot AR Drone 2:
The cityscape in the mo…
Continue reading »This week at the Institut Architektur at FHNW we started new fieldwork for a GPS tracking project in Basel, Switzerland. Earlier the UrbanDiary project already tracked individuals everyday movements in the same urban context. See HERE and HERE for post…
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This week at the Institut Architektur at FHNW we started new fieldwork for a GPS tracking project in Basel, Switzerland. Earlier the UrbanDiary project already tracked individuals everyday movements in the same urban context. See HERE and HERE for post…
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