Mind The Map: The Land of Hopeful Commuters
The Mind the Map exhibition, at the London Transport Mu […]
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The City as a Scalable Network
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: 3D Max, V-Ray, Timelapse and After Effects
‘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: 3D Max, V-Ray, Timelapse and After Effects
‘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 »City 17 and the AR Drone 2
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 »The Fastest Connection in the City
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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The Fastest Connection in the City
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…
Continue reading »The Fastest Connection in the City
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…
Continue reading »Francois Grey’s 7 myths of citizen science
Over the Air 2012 event was a wonderful event – it’s a 36 hours event, dedicated to mobile development and it is based on Bletchley park. This year, Citizen Science was a theme of the event. The final talk was given by Francois Grey from the Citizen Cyberscience Centre . Francois’ interest is on volunteer computing […]
1st International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Resilience
The 1st International Conference on Urban Sustainability and Resilience will be held at UCL between the 5th and 7th November 2012. The Call for Abstracts is currently active, with the deadline for 500-word abstracts being the 4th July 2012. Please…
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The U-City Paradigm: Opportunities and Risks for E-Democracy in Collaborative Planning
We are pleased to announce the latest Future Internet Paper entitled The U-City Paradigm: Opportunities and Risks for E-Democracy in Collaborative Planning by Francesco Rotondo from the Department of Architecture and Town Plann…
Continue reading »How to export model from Google SketchUp to CryEngine 3 Tutorial HD (PlayUp Tools)
The clip below details how to go from SketchUp to CryEngine 3 using PlayUp tools – a quick and easy route direct into the game engine:
http://www.playuptools.com/ – playup toolshttp://sketchup.google.com/ – google sketchup
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Continue reading »The Diamond Jubilee in London: A Tweet Location Analysis
I’ve been collecting Twitter data for a little while now, and have managed to identify some interesting (if slightly frivolous) trends. But, when considering the wider applications of such a dataset, one question that has continued to bug me is – …
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BBC London Calling Season
To mark the Olympic year a series of programs on London is being broadcast…
Continue reading »Mapping the World’s Biggest Airlines
The map above shows the routes flown by the top 7 airli […]
Continue reading »How are the big boys using big data?
Last night Google held a press event unveiling the recent additions to the Google Map/Earth arsenal, automatic 3D mapping from aerial imagery and a mobile StreetView capture backpack. While we’ve seen this kind of 3D mapping from companies like C3, which Apple acquired a few years back (expect to see that in iOS 6 next […]
Continue reading »Simulation, Scenario and Visioning …
The header of this post is the subtitle of a new book The Future of Cities and Regions edited by Bazzanella, Caneparo, Corsico, and Roccasalva. Computation has finally drawn us to the point where planning support systems informed by simulation … Continue reading →
Continue reading »6 Fellowships £10,000 Each at The Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) in Leeds or the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) in London
We are pleased to announce the availability of six fellowships are available to support individuals in non-academic institutions to undertake defined research projects at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) in Leeds or the Centr…
Continue reading »Visualising Social Media: Facebook Checkins
You may or may not realise but most social media companies have geo-location at the heart of there services. Facebook and foursquare have checkins, Twitter allows users to geotag their tweets and Google Latitude and Apple’s Find my friend, with permission, all track your location and send it back for analysis. Have you ever wondered […]
Continue reading »Call for Principal Investigator Sustainable Connected Cities: Intel/UCL/Imperial
Being UCL based we are slightly biased, but this is a stunning job advert to head up the new Collaborative Research Institute (Intel CRI) for Sustainable Connected Cities in the role of Principal Investigator.
Full details are below:
Jo…
Continue reading »Science Songwriter OF THE FUTURE!
Science Songwriter of The Future! is a national competition to find Britain’s best science songwriters aged 18 or under. Simply record a song about science and submit an mp3 to us at sciencesongwriter@gmail.com by July 13th. We’ve roped in some … Continue reading →
X and the City
Years ago, in 1976 as many of my CASA compatriots know, I was involved in a series of TV programmes called “Modelling by Mathematics”. This was an Open University first level course to teach technology students some ideas about mathematics, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Nokia Mobile Data Challenge: City University Analysis
Aidan Slingsby is the Willis Research Fellow over at the excellent giCentre from City University. He was part of a team who entered the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (research.nokia.com/mdc).
The challenge centered around …
Continue reading »How to compile PostGIS 2.1 on Ubuntu Server 12.04+
PostGIS 2 has some exciting new goodies — including raster support — that I’m keen to use in the analysis of Mappiness data. But the PostGIS package provided by Ubuntu 12.04 is still only at version 1.5, and the GEOS and GDAL packages are also too old to support the new version. So — this […]
Continue reading »How to compile PostGIS 2.1 on Ubuntu Server 12.04+
PostGIS 2 has some exciting new goodies — including raster support — that I’m keen to use in the analysis of Mappiness data. But the PostGIS package provided by Ubuntu 12.04 is still only at version 1.5, and the GEOS and GDAL packages are also too old to support the new version. So — this […]
Continue reading »How to compile PostGIS 2.1 on Ubuntu Server 12.04+
PostGIS 2 has some exciting new goodies — including raster support — that I’m keen to use in the analysis of Mappiness data. But the PostGIS package provided by Ubuntu 12.04 is still only at version 1.5, and the GEOS and GDAL packages are also too old to support the new version. So — this […]
Continue reading »Processing – Building Structures with Cellular Automata
As part of the MRes of Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation in CASA, the course has been exploring various techniques relevant to urban modelling and visualisations, such as Cellular Automata and (CA), Agents Based Modelling. These approac…
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Diseases and Refugee camps
Dadaab refugee campOne of the projects we are working on at GMU is exploring the the dynamics of refugee camps and the spread of diseases within such camps. Our initial focus is on the the Dadaab refugee camps which are located in Kenya, approxima…
Continue reading »Diseases and Refugee camps
Dadaab refugee campOne of the projects we are working on at GMU is exploring the the dynamics of refugee camps and the spread of diseases within such camps. Our initial focus is on the the Dadaab refugee camps which are located in Kenya, approxima…
Continue reading »City Timelapses: Finding Portland
Finding Portland was produced, shot, and edited in 51 days during March and April at the invitation of TEDx Portland, where the video was unveiled to a sell out crowd of 650 and met with a standing ovation. Filmed in Portland and the Columbia Gorg…
Continue reading »Synthetic population data for the U.S
When creating agent-based models, one question is how many agents to include and where are they located. Often we create synthetic individuals or households based on census data however, this can be a rather time consuming task. So a recent proje…
Continue reading »Applied Urban Modelling 2012
CASA researchers were out in force at the AUM 2012 meeting in Cambridge last week,…
Continue reading »Synthetic population data for the U.S
When creating agent-based models, one question is how many agents to include and where are they located. Often we create synthetic individuals or households based on census data however, this can be a rather time consuming task. So a recent proje…
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Call for papers: Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations and Smart Cities
Readers of the blog might be interested in the “Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations and Smart Cities” workshop at the ECAI-2012 Conference in Montpellier, France, August 27 or 28, 2012.
To quote from the call for papers:
In this workshop, we intend to address specific methodological and technological issues raised by the deployment of agents in rich environments such as virtual cities. We will welcome contributions tackling issues related to reactive agents, cognitive architectures, the capacity to scale up to handle thousands or hundreds of thousands of agents, the ability to simulate realistic group behaviors which might be judged non rational, etc., all in the context of urban agents. We will also welcome contributions showcasing original applications of agent and multi-agent technologies within urban simulations, be it for design, planning, education, training, or entertainment.
Workshop Chairs:
- Vincent Corruble (contact), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France
- Fabio Carrera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA
- Stephen Guerin, Santa Fe Complex, USA
Important Dates:
- *6 June 2012*: Workshop paper submission deadline
- 28 June 2012: Notifications to authors (subject to modification)
- 13 July 2012: Submissions of camera-ready copies of selected papers
- 27 or 28 August 2012: Workshop date
Submission information:
- 12 page max. submissions, Springer Verlag LNCS conference format Contact: Vincent Corruble (iaussc2012@easychair.org) workshop page: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~corruble/IAUSSCws/Home.html
Call for papers: Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations and Smart Cities
Readers of the blog might be interested in the “Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations and Smart Cities” workshop at the ECAI-2012 Conference in Montpellier, France, August 27 or 28, 2012.
To quote from the call for papers:
In this workshop, we intend to address specific methodological and technological issues raised by the deployment of agents in rich environments such as virtual cities. We will welcome contributions tackling issues related to reactive agents, cognitive architectures, the capacity to scale up to handle thousands or hundreds of thousands of agents, the ability to simulate realistic group behaviors which might be judged non rational, etc., all in the context of urban agents. We will also welcome contributions showcasing original applications of agent and multi-agent technologies within urban simulations, be it for design, planning, education, training, or entertainment.
Workshop Chairs:
- Vincent Corruble (contact), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France
- Fabio Carrera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA
- Stephen Guerin, Santa Fe Complex, USA
Important Dates:
- *6 June 2012*: Workshop paper submission deadline
- 28 June 2012: Notifications to authors (subject to modification)
- 13 July 2012: Submissions of camera-ready copies of selected papers
- 27 or 28 August 2012: Workshop date
Submission information:
- 12 page max. submissions, Springer Verlag LNCS conference format Contact: Vincent Corruble (iaussc2012@easychair.org) workshop page: http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~corruble/IAUSSCws/Home.html
Visualising World Flight-Paths in 3D
Robin of geotheory.org and a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course here at CASA, University College London has created an interesting movie looking at data from openflights.org.
Created in Processing the c…
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SLACTIONS 2012 Machinima – International Festival
This year, and for the first time, the SLACTIONS Steering Committee has included a day devoted to Machinima in the conference program. The SLACTIONS 2012 Machinima Festival is a Machinima competition included on the SLACTIONS 2012 Research conference o…
Continue reading »SimCity GlassBox Game Engine: 4 Simulation Examples
Electronic Arts has released 4 short clips examining the simulation capability of the GlassBox Game Engine behind the forthcoming SimCity update.
Image: Traffic Density in the original SimCity release.
The mix of agent based modelling, e…
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