The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The skyscraper is perhaps the most recognizable icon of the modern urban landscape. Providing offices, homes, restaurants, and shopping to thousands of inhabitants, modern skyscrapers function as small cities- with infrastructure not unlike that hidden…
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The Guardian recently contacted me with a new extract of data related to the riots and was interested in some further analysis looking at the IMD. The data comprised records for 835 people who have appeared in court on charges related to the 2011 riots…
Continue reading »At the Complex-City Workshop held at the Tinbergen Institute in the Free University of Amsterdam held 5-6 December 2011, CASA presented a variety of papers. Alan Wilson presented a paper […]
Continue reading »This movie shows a heatmap of London Bikeshare activity over the course of an average day – red indicates the density of arrivals, cyan the density of departures – and so white areas are where arrival and departures match. Animation … Continue reading →
UCL Students Create Hand Drawn Map Of London Londonist
Continue reading »The previous post focused on citizen science as participatory science. This post is discussing the meaning of this differentiation. It is the final part of the chapter that will appear next year in the book: Sui, D.Z., Elwood, S. and M.F. Goodchild (eds.), 2012. Volunteered Geographic Information, Public Participation, and Crowdsourced Production of Geographic Knowledge. […]
This post was written for the LSE “Impact of Social Sciences” Blog: At the beginning of November I ran a rather fun workshop in Cardiff called “Podwhating?” (not my title) – dedicated to academic podcasting. Several years of podcasting and … Continue reading →
A one day EPSRC-funded workshop (at which yours truly presented) in Oxford at the Complex Agent-Based Dynamic Networks group (CABDyN) at the Said Business School (1st December 2011) had five interesting speakers all talking about the new social physics of …
Continue reading »Abstracts are invited for a session held by the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) at the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers International Conference 2012. The conference runs between 3rd – 5th July 2012. More about the session: Interdisciplinary research is not only an extremely difficult balancing act, but one which is becoming more frequent. […]
Continue reading »Abstracts are invited for a session held by the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) at the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers International Conference 2012. The conference runs between 3rd – 5th July 2012. More about the session: This session aims to bring together researchers to report on progress in diverse types of modelling that has […]
Continue reading »Abstracts are invited for a session held by the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) at the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers International Conference 2012. The conference runs between 3rd – 5th July 2012. More about the session: This session aims to bring together researchers to report on progress in diverse types of automata systems […]
Continue reading »Abstracts are invited for a session held jointly by the GIScience Research Group (GIScRG) and the Transport Geography Research Group (TGRG) at the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers International Conference 2012. The conference runs between 3rd – 5th July 2012. More about the session: Geospatial technologies are an important component of transport […]
Continue reading »Paper is dead and everything is digital these days. Not quite, it was the big promise twenty years ago, but we are still nostalgic about the use of paper. Having something physical in the context of all this fast changing content and information battle…
Continue reading »Paper is dead and everything is digital these days. Not quite, it was the big promise twenty years ago, but we are still nostalgic about the use of paper. Having something physical in the context of all this fast changing content and information battle…
Continue reading »Core to GEMMA (our Geographical Engine for Mass Mapping Applications) is the OpenStreetMap feature highlighter. The feature highlighter allows users to search for any term and have it mapped with via points or original OpenStreetMap fe…
Continue reading »Core to GEMMA (our Geographical Engine for Mass Mapping Applications) is the OpenStreetMap feature highlighter. The feature highlighter allows users to search for any term and have it mapped with via points or original OpenStreetMap fe…
Continue reading »Project Geppetto from Autodesk attempts to make it it easy, fast, and fun to add crowds to 3ds Max scenes. It is part of Autodesk’s “People Power” concept, where the basic idea is to try to assemble all the components one needs to create, manage,…
Continue reading »Project Geppetto from Autodesk attempts to make it it easy, fast, and fun to add crowds to 3ds Max scenes. It is part of Autodesk’s “People Power” concept, where the basic idea is to try to assemble all the components one needs to create, manage,…
Continue reading »GEMMA is the project I’ve been working on for the last six months, it’s one of the JISCgeo projects and it is now released – although consider it to be beta as there are lots of bugs and UI quirks … Continue reading →
Continue reading »This is starting to become obsessive, but I can’t help wondering how many trains are running on the London Underground and where they all are. The Trackernet web service released by TfL allows you to see all the running boards for stations on a line, but doesn’t tell you where all the trains are. I did […]
Continue reading »Realtime rendering has moved on a long way in recent years – a prime example is Lumion® a real-time 3D visualisation tool for architects, urban planners and designers.
Suited for creating videos, still renderings and live demonstrations with a qui…
Continue reading »Realtime rendering has moved on a long way in recent years – a prime example is Lumion® a real-time 3D visualisation tool for architects, urban planners and designers.
Suited for creating videos, still renderings and live demonstrations with a qui…
Continue reading »Housing projects are an architects everyday business. Housing is one of the really big architectural challenges as it more than many other tasks directly represents an idea of being and enabling to unfold and arrange. The society and social implication…
Continue reading »Housing projects are an architects everyday business. Housing is one of the really big architectural challenges as it more than many other tasks directly represents an idea of being and enabling to unfold and arrange. The society and social implication…
Continue reading »Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, is editied by Alison Heppenstall, Andrew Crooks, Linda See and Mike Batty; and brings together a comprehensive set of papers on the background, theory, technical issues and applications of agent-based m…
Continue reading »Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, is editied by Alison Heppenstall, Andrew Crooks, Linda See and Mike Batty; and brings together a comprehensive set of papers on the background, theory, technical issues and applications of agent-based m…
Continue reading »I was intrigued by this tweet that appeared in my Twitter client this morning: It’s one of those tweets that makes you go “That doesn’t sound right?” Is Tokyo really a third of the size of England? It generally takes … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetThis time from John Stillwell and me (rather than the other way around!) – paper is titled “A comparison of internal migration by ethnic group in Great Britain using a district classification”. “Oooh, that sounds interesting!” I hear you cry … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Finally we are nearing the end of the project (ok technically at the end but its both complex and exciting so we might squeeze in a few more days yet) we would like to introduce the world to GEMMA, the Geospatial Engine for Mass Mapping Applications.&n…
Continue reading »Finally we are nearing the end of the project (ok technically at the end but its both complex and exciting so we might squeeze in a few more days yet) we would like to introduce the world to GEMMA, the Geospatial Engine for Mass Mapping Applications.&n…
Continue reading »New manufacturing technologies are tipped to change the world, yet again. Machine based production is since the 18th century a reality and with it has the industrial revolution changed the way products and the making of are consumed.This has had far re…
Continue reading »New manufacturing technologies are tipped to change the world, yet again. Machine based production is since the 18th century a reality and with it has the industrial revolution changed the way products and the making of are consumed.This has had far re…
Continue reading »TweetIGU – Cologne 2012 – 26–30 Aug. https://igc2012.org/ The aim of the session is to discuss the consequences of the current move by numerous countries from traditional decennial censuses to population register and targeted surveys. This move has many advantages but also potential drawbacks for population geographers: some variables that were collected for decades disappear […]
Continue reading »TweetIn the field of International migration, transnational migration is now widely accepted as a new form of global mobility that is accompanying globalization’ s many dynamic dimensions. As a significant social, economic and political feature of our ‘runaway world’ this ‘transnational turn’ and its associated social systems, behaviors and consequences has received considerable attention both […]
Continue reading »Iceland is a remote place, being a small island high up north in the Atlantic Ocean is not exactly a place on the high street. The island however, has very distinct characteristics to share and can surprise with unique features. In terms of architectur…
Continue reading »Iceland is a remote place, being a small island high up north in the Atlantic Ocean is not exactly a place on the high street. The island however, has very distinct characteristics to share and can surprise with unique features. In terms of architectur…
Continue reading »This post continues to the theme of the previous one, and is also based on the chapter that will appear next year in the book: Sui, D.Z., Elwood, S. and M.F. Goodchild (eds.), 2012. Volunteered Geographic Information, Public Participation, and Crowdsourced Production of Geographic Knowledge. Berlin: Springer. The post focuses on the participatory aspect of […]
Provides a complete reference guide for understanding how to apply ABM to geographical systems Presents the latest ideas and applications using ABM Addresses the issue of applying ABM in a spatial context. This unique book brings together a comprehensive set of papers on …
Continue reading »Ever wondered why the suggestions on shopping websites such as amazon or ebay more often than not appeal to you? Most links are targeted and do related to recent activity linking activity and interest together. Amazon’s recommendations for products esp…
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