The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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…
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…
Continue reading »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 […]
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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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 »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 »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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To mark the Olympic year a series of programs on London is being broadcast…
Continue reading »The map above shows the routes flown by the top 7 airli […]
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 »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 »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! 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 →
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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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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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 »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 »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 »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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