The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
BBC NewsLife expectancy by tube station: new interactive map shows inequality in the …Telegraph.co.ukComments. The map shows how those living around London underground, overground and light railway stations have wildly different life expectancies, an…
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A slideshow of maps showing the population change in England and Wales between 2001 and 2011 divided by gender and the age ranges 0 to 14, 15 to 29, 30 to 44, 45 to 64 and 65 and over.
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Continue reading »Much of this site is about the morphology of cities using fractal geometry as one of the key unifying themes. But it is in architecture that the real modularity of fractals has become a central feature in design. Harris’s exposition … Continue reading →
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Below are maps showing how the population change in London between 2001 and 2011 differs depending on the age range and gender. Swipe across each image to see how the male and female population change differs across London’s Boroughs. Here…
Continue reading »Life expectancy by tube station: new interactive map shows inequality in the capital Telegraph.co.ukA new interactive map plots life expectancy and child poverty by different London Underground stations, highlighting the wild differences in …
Continue reading »Since the early half of the last century the car is a defining aspect of the urban environment. Pre-car urban pattern are obviously different and many scholars and practitioners have since covered the topic of how things have changed. It is in most …
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Since the early half of the last century the car is a defining aspect of the urban environment. Pre-car urban pattern are obviously different and many scholars and practitioners have since covered the topic of how things have changed. It is in most …
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Since the early half of the last century the car is a defining aspect of the urban environment. Pre-car urban pattern are obviously different and many scholars and practitioners have since covered the topic of how things have changed. It is in most …
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The simple answer to this is they never existed. The reduction seen across much of England and Wales in the population of the 30 to 44 age range between 2001 and 2011 is a consequence of the low birth rates…
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Following on from my previous post I thought I would look at London in some more detail. In the ten years between 2001 and 2011 every borough’s population has increased – with the exception of Kensington and Chelsea. The breakdowns…
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Today (16th July) at 11am the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the first results from the 2011 Census in England and Wales. This included population data at the local authority level, rounded to the nearest hundred in 5 year…
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Continue reading »Earlier this month Demos published a fascinating report on the hot topic of London’s “Tech City” cluster, which has been promoted by the government as a key growth pole for the UK. The report authors Max Nathan, Emma Vandore and Rob Whitehead, put the Inner East London cluster in the context of similar phenomena in … Continue reading »
The deadline is near for 2012 entry on the new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV). The course reflects the current state of play in geographic, urban and architectural information systems with an emphasis on visualisation, analysis and modelling. Taught at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, home of digital urban, it is an […]
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Below we provide full details for 2012 entry on the new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV). The course reflects the current state of play in geographic, urban and architectural information systems with an emphasis on visual…
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Below we provide full details for 2012 entry on the new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV). The course reflects the current state of play in geographic, urban and architectural information systems with an emphasis on visual…
Continue reading »Big Data Holds Big Promise for GovernmentSmart Data CollectiveFurthermore, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London is combining data from London's Oyster cards – used to pay for public transport – and Twitte…
Continue reading »Big Data Holds Big Promise for GovernmentSmart Data CollectiveFurthermore, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London is combining data from London's Oyster cards – used to pay for public transport – and Twitte…
Continue reading »London's Tube and big dataThe EconomistThe new Wi-Fi network brings all this to the platform. TfL has given a big chunk of the Oyster card data to the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Jonathan Reades, a researcher …
Continue reading »London's Tube and big dataThe EconomistThe new Wi-Fi network brings all this to the platform. TfL has given a big chunk of the Oyster card data to the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Jonathan Reades, a researcher …
Continue reading »The Mathematical Puzzle That Is the Complexity of the City: An interesting article in the Atlantic Cities pages by Samuel Arbesman on how we are developing this science of cities – a prelude the workshop at Santa Fe this week … Continue reading →
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce 2 fully funded PhD studentships at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. Full details below, its a unique opportunity to carry out new cutting edge research in the field of smart cities: PhD 1 – CASA and The Greater London Authority Funding Type: Impact Award Project Title: PhD Studentship: […]
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce 2 fully funded PhD studentships at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.
Full details below, its a unique opportunity to carry out new cutting edge research in the field of smart cit…
Continue reading »Every so often you come across a dataset that really amazes you in its richness and ability to change perspectives on understanding the world. One such dataset has been produced by academics at Stanford and Oslo tracing the global supply chain of CO2 emissions. Traditionally emissions are attributed to countries depending on where fuels are … Continue reading »
I recently co-wrote an editorial (download the full ver […]
Continue reading »UCL recently hosted their first ever TEDx event, and to my amazement (probably after seeing some seriously dodgy maths themed stand-up I did) they invited me to give a talk. […]
Continue reading »Check out the Future Cities Lab established by ETH Zurich in Singapore. Many projects dealing with every aspects of the city-state but relevant to our own work on land use transport and mobility is their MATSims model which is now running … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Residence vs. Ancestry in Acquisition of Spanish Citizenship: A Netnography Approach Pablo Mateos and Jorge Durand Access to a nationality from a European union (EU) country has become a key migration strategy for people from outside the eu and their families. This … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Forget Social Networks, our names link us together in cultural and ethnic communities worldwide Our forenames and surnames are connected into distinct global networks of cultural, ethnic and linguistic communities. These are revealed for the first time y a team … Continue reading →
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Bike BizBike share schemes mappedBike BizResearch by the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis was presented today in Edinburgh at the annual international conference of the Royal Geographical Society. The research delves into the attitudes – and ro…
Continue reading »Welcome to Singapore, The Intelligent Island. No not the sign greeting you at Changi when you land now but the sign back in 1989 which we show to the left. For the last 25 years, Singapore has been in the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »When converting coordinates between WGS84 (GPS) and OSGB36 (UK National Grid), using OSTN02 can gain us a few metres in accuracy over the basic parametric transformation provided by PostGIS’s st_transform via PROJ.4. Happily, Ordnance Survey now distribute an NTv2 version of the OSTN02 transformation, courtesy of the Defence Geographic Centre, which can be used by […]
Continue reading »When converting coordinates between WGS84 (GPS) and OSGB36 (UK National Grid), using OSTN02 can gain us a few metres in accuracy over the basic parametric transformation provided by PostGIS’s st_transform via PROJ.4. Happily, Ordnance Survey now distribute an NTv2 version of the OSTN02 transformation, courtesy of the Defence Geographic Centre, which can be used by […]
Continue reading »On June 15th I was lucky enough to attend the festival marking the launch of the UCL English department’s One Day In The City – a celebration of London from a more literary perspective than we at CASA are accustomed … Continue reading →
Singapore World Cities Summit, Singapore WasteMetAsia sessions, today. Talking on how complexity theory can be used to think about waste in cities – of course it can be used to think about anything in cities, but here are some improvised … Continue reading →
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A new book entitled “Complexity and Planning: Systems, Assemblages and Simulations (New Directions in Planning Theory)” by Gert De Roo, Jean Hillier and Joris Van Wezemael has recently been published. To quote from the book description:Complexity,…
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