The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Building a 3D city can take time and sometimes an off the shelf solution is the best option for moving a project forward. As such the City Kit by GreyScaleGorilla is well with a look. Running in Cinema 4D the kits allows the rapid construction of citys…
Continue reading »The organisers of next year’s Olympic Games in London, LOCOG, have unveiled their map of the 1000+ places that the Olympic Torch Relay will pass through. The data that the map is built from is readily accessible (as a JSON … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Vienna the city at the Donau is rediscovering itself. After decades directly at the iron curtan the city has begun to reestablish and revitalise its former vital connections deep into Eastern Europe. Between 1945 and the end of the Cold War in 1989 Vie…
Continue reading »I have recently been enjoying Terry Farrell’s book “Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis”. Farrell is one of the UK’s best known and respected urban planners, and his passion for place-making and urban culture shine through in this accessible discussion of the development of the capital. Rather than an analysis of […]
Continue reading »My first contribution, albeit a very minor one, to this area for a very long time; with Kai Cao and others from CUHK and elsewhere. Read our article now online at IJGIS. To an extent, this is an area not well represented here … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’m currently using Munin to keep an eye on the various services running on my main server at UCL CASA. Munin is a monitoring package. It is simple to install (on Ubuntu, sudo apt-get install munin on your primary server, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Martin Austwick has an interesting piece on defining complexity which is what I am trying to do in my Spatial Complexity course. If you click on the link to the left or here, there is a small comment about entropy … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Although this is definitely a case of ‘over-egging the pudding’, it’s nonetheless a very nice, extended riff on how contemporary financial markets are effectively operating without any kind of buffers or controls and why this is leading to huge problems in such a complex system. vimeo.com/31210471
Continue reading »Please see the link below for details of a research fellow post at the School of Geography in Leeds, working on the ESRC-funded Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research (CIDER), and on a project ‘Comparing internal migration in different countries around the world’ (IMAGE), funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADK815/research-fellow/ [applications close […]
Continue reading »The Murf by the band Rendevous is the electronic soundtrack to the universe. Not on its own but together with the stunning illustration by Scott Benson. Together it makes a music video of the very inspiring sort. It is inspiring technically and of cour…
Continue reading »I’ve only just had the good fortune to read Warren Weaver’s mission statement for the sciences (original paper; transcription), published in American Scientist in 1948, but I’m glad I did. Since I entered academia, I’ve felt that the standard of … Continue reading →
…when they were plotting this road in East London for Google Maps:
A quick look at the Google Maps aerial imagery confirms there’s something odd about that road kink:
Never fear, OSM is here:
Continue reading »Population Growth – a Problem of ScalesThe end of October has according to the UN office for statistics officially marked the population growth reached 7billion. This is seven billion individuals living on planet earth, an astonishing number. On Octob…
Continue reading »BitCity tomorrow (3rd November) at Columbia (NYC). Click left for my presentation on Cities as Flow Systems. Talks about CASA’s Oyster Card, Bikes, Networks, and LUTI model projects and how they can be used to look at fractured networks. Thanks … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Below is a stop-motion animation captured in Moscow, it lasts for 1 minute 30 seconds and consists of 1072 images. You see only feet in the clip with images captured at the level of the human eye. Frames were prepared by hand and all the scenes were sh…
Continue reading »Below is a stop-motion animation captured in Moscow, it lasts for 1 minute 30 seconds and consists of 1072 images. You see only feet in the clip with images captured at the level of the human eye. Frames were prepared by hand and all the scenes were sh…
Continue reading »The last lecture! – you can download from Lecture 8 above or by clicking the icon left. This lecture does not quite do what I intended but reworks an earlier lecture of mine on land use transportation models focussing on … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Augmented reality (AR) applications have the potential to change the city experience by overlaying the digital information on the physical environment. Yujin Yin a student on the MA Digital Media at Gildsmiths Univversity of London asks, what is the
Continue reading »Augmented reality (AR) applications have the potential to change the city experience by overlaying the digital information on the physical environment. Yujin Yin a student on the MA Digital Media at Gildsmiths Univversity of London asks, what is the
Continue reading »Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting …
Continue reading »The “Big Society” features as a key part of the coalition government’s legislative programme, aiming to decentralise control of public services and to empower local communities to manage and deliver services that better meet local needs. Over the past twelve months I have been involved in an AHRC Funded Connected Communities project involving researchers at […]
Continue reading »Future Internet carries on the theme of web based mapping with its latest publication by Paar, P.; Rekittke, J. Low-Cost Mapping and Publishing Methods for Landscape Architectural Analysis and Design in Slum-Upgrading Projects . Future Internet 2011, 3…
Continue reading »7am and rummaging around Vimeo we stumbled upon work by Ramy Hanna, his work on the School of the Future is simply inspiring:
The entire model was made using SketchUp with rendering via an import into 3DMax and Metal Ray, final edits were made…
Continue reading »The “Big Society” features as a key part of the coalition government’s legislative programme, aiming to decentralise control of public services and to empower local communities to manage and deliver services that better meet local needs. Over the past …
Continue reading »Click left for the lecture or above on Lecture 7. More on entropy and information here, and I rework some of the material of Lecture 6. Note the random collisions model and run Chen’s online movie and have look at … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Shot on a Bolex with intervalometer, this sampling from Chris Scarafile’s time lapse library reflects the blur and momentum of modern city living:
We really like a) the feel of the clip and b) the fact that it was shot using a Bolex….
Continue reading »Future Internet has published – Schroth, O.; Pond, E.; Campbell, C.; Cizek, P.; Bohus, S.; Sheppard, S.R.J. Tool or Toy? Virtual Globes in Landscape Planning. Future Internet 2011, 3, 204-227.
Virtual globes, i.e., geobrowsers tha…
Continue reading »On November 11th I’m lucky enough to be performing at Bright Club: Stars, the Bloomsbury EXTRAVAGANZA. I’ve performed at Bright Club more than once, in the cozy confines of the Wilmington Arms and at the Green Man festival (in a … Continue reading →
Amazing what you discover when you search the web. Couldn’t find Ravenstein’s 1888 map that Waldo Tobler sent me as a detailed scan. Its framed in my room at UCL and somewhere on the web I know. What I did … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The icon left is rather appropriate for Arizona and the wild west, don’t you think. Entropy is increasing as we head towards the end of the course. The sixth lecture deals with our third form of scaling, scaling with space, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Need to protect something with a passcode in an iPhone app you’re developing? Then you may find my MIT-licensed passcode view controller — as seen in the mappiness app and in the short screencast below — of use. See Github for the code and (scant) documentation. Download video as MP4, WebM, or Ogg.
Continue reading »This entry goes to the CASA blog aggregator so those viewing it will be getting a blow by blow account of each lecture as I post it. As I don’t lecture much in CASA, at least it shows when I am … Continue reading →
Continue reading »We were delighted to receive a copy of this rather bril […]
Continue reading »In 2010, IBM Citizenship created the Smarter Cities Challenge to help 100 cities over a three-year period to address some of the critical challenges facing cities. They do this by contributing the time and expertise of their experts from different busi…
Continue reading »Stuart Eve here at The Bartlett’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has posted an update on his PhD research looking at augmenting archaeological sites. Before moving onto the real world he has built a proof of concept based on a…
Continue reading »In the previous three parts, I outlined the plan for getting geometry from MapTube via C Sharp into an FBX file using the C++ SDK provided by Autodesk. This final part shows data in a world map exported from MapTube and imported into 3DS Max. The above image shows the world countries 2010 outline from […]
Continue reading »Population Geography Research Group RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 – University of Edinburgh – 3rd to 5th July 2012 The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) is seeking to sponsor 12 sessions at the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. PopGRG session sponsorship was oversubscribed in 2011, and the number of sessions at the 2012 conference will be more limited. We are therefore seeking proposals for high quality sessions, with innovative […]
Continue reading »You can now download the fourth lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 4, or click the icon to the left of this post. This lecture continues the first kind of scaling based on size distributions focussing on names, high … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Last week I attended a “Beyond 2011” Census event organised by the Prof. Dave Martin and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The attendees came from central and local government, private companies that utlise census data, and a few universities. The majority there (based on an approximate straw poll) believed that there would not be a …
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