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Spatial Complexity 2011-10-25 01:16:48
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 »Why do we need a census?
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 …
Continue reading »3D London: Google Earth
With recent developments here in CASA we somehow managed to miss the addition of automated 3D models into Google Earth for London. The mix of hand made and we presume LiDAR derived models is stunning with resolution down to modelling the chimneys&…
Continue reading »Interdisciplinarity is hard
Since the end of September I’ve been busy with CASA’s new MRes course, teaching, organizing, planning like a good lecturer does. The MRes, in keeping with the research themes of CASA, is a highly interdisciplinary affair – drawing upon techniques … Continue reading →
Book – Living in the Alps
The Alps as a place for living has a log tradition as an influential source shaping specific typologies and buildings. The specific conditions of the environment but also the very special atmosphere impact on both the design and the realisation of proj…
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-10-23 14:05:06
You can now download the third lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 3, or click the icon to the left of this post. This lecture focuses on the first kind of scaling which pertains to city size distributions. We look at … Continue reading →
Continue reading »GeoMason Examples
GeoMason has recently been updated to support changes to MASON itself and I have contributed a few models to highlight the basic functionality of GeoMason and act as examples for how geographically explicit models can be built. Below are some of…
Continue reading »GeoMason Examples
GeoMason has recently been updated to support changes to MASON itself and I have contributed a few models to highlight the basic functionality of GeoMason and act as examples for how geographically explicit models can be built. Below are some of…
Continue reading »Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds – The Independent
Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds The Independent
Continue reading »Urban Trees: London
A short yet somehow eye opening clip that should make anyone living in London wondering why this is not already part of our infrastructure:
Created by Hixon Design, a company providing green solutions for awkward spaces, we can see a f…
Continue reading »Audi Urban Future and a Smile
The Audi Urban Future Summit focused on the question of energies and forces that will shape future cities. Visionary ideas and research by experts on the development of new forms of urban mobility were in the center of the discussions. All well and goo…
Continue reading »Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualization
The advances in online data mining and the rising popularity of online social networking data is posing challenging questions in regards to ethics and privacy. How can academic research provide a comprehensive framework to secure data management and gu…
Continue reading »Space Syntax to GIS Integration: A Roadmap
Something I have been thinking about recently is the possibility of integration between GIS and space syntax. The motivations are very clear. Space syntax represents a compelling quantitative model of human behaviour and movement. W…
Continue reading »Call for Papers – Third Biannual British-Irish Population Conference 18th -19th April 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS Population Geography: Inter-Generational Patterns and Processes Third Biannual British-Irish Population Conference 18-19 April 2012 Hosted by Queen’s University Belfast under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Papers are invited for a British-Irish population geography conference on inter-generational patterns and processes. Whilst there is a focus on […]
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-10-19 22:49:57
You can now download the second lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 2, or by clicking the icon to the left of this post. More bibliography is on its way and this second lecture focuses on patterns and fractals as well … Continue reading →
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Highly Skilled Migration in the 21st Century: Call for Papers
HIGHLY SKILLED MIGRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Middlesex University, Hendon Campus, London, NW4 4BT. Location: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/Location/hendon/index.aspx 24th and 25th May 2012 Research in the field of migration has tended to focus on the multifarious international diasporas of the poor and the powerless. Taking important new research in the field of intra-European highly-skilled migration as its […]
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity
Started my new lecture course on Spatial Complexity at Arizona State University. It’s killing me doing relatively new stuff day after day. Lectures are posted after given: Seven so far, the last on Wednesday (2/11) (at http://www.spatialcom…
Continue reading »Paper Tools in Softimage: Skoda – Curriculum
Here at digital urban we are picky, we like the best and this is why we are especially pleased to of found ‘Skoda – Curriculum’ by weareflink. Although not the most stand out title for a short 3D movie, it is amazing:
One of the greatest challenge …
Continue reading »Golden Age: Somewhere
The sequel to the award winning Golden Age – The Simulation, ‘Somewhere’ attempts to visualise the notion of a ‘downloaded architecture’. We are in a time where much of what we do is online. The notion of the online will radically change, the notion of…
Continue reading »FBX Exporters Part 3
The first two parts of the FBX export process dealt with getting the FBX SDK working and exporting some simple geometry. Now what’s required is the ability to pass complex geometry from the MapTube side using C# over to the FBX side using C++. The obvious way to do this is to pass the geometry […]
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-10-17 09:40:05
Spatial Complexity Has Started – you can download the first lecture from the Menu Item above Lecture 1, or by clicking the icon to the left of this post. If you go to www.complexcity.info then you can retrieve the basic background … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Times Atlas of London
*This post has been cross-posted from the Mapping London blog.* A few months back I had the honour of being asked to approve the use of a couple of excerpts from my London Surname Map in The Times Atlas of London. The wait was finally over last week when I received my copy in the …
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The Complexity Brake
Paul Allen & Mark Greaves argue that the singularity that Ray Kurzweil amongst others are predicting within the next 30 years where AI & biomedicine merge and our species transforms, will not come to pass. This drama will be avoided by … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tokyo Slo-Mode
The Canon T3i has the option to capture at 60fps at 720p, essentially allowing you to slow time by 50%. The effect is used to its max by Alex Lee with his Tokyo Slo-Mode movie:
Very nice…
Music Credit: Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke- …And the Wor…
Continue reading »Alice: 3D programming environment
Alice is a easy to use 3D programming environment where one can create an animation for telling a story or be used for playing an interactive game. It is designed to teach the fundamentals of object-oriented programming. In Alice, people, a…
Continue reading »Alice: 3D programming environment
Alice is a easy to use 3D programming environment where one can create an animation for telling a story or be used for playing an interactive game. It is designed to teach the fundamentals of object-oriented programming. In Alice, people, a…
Continue reading »Second International Conference Young Urban Researchers – SiCyUrB
Today is the second day of the Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers in Lisbon at ISCTE-IUL. The conference aims to share recent researches on urban contexts from many different areas of social sciences, to discuss current theoreti…
Continue reading »Whitehall – a Soviet Military View
As a followup to yesterday’s article on the Sovie […]
Continue reading »Cities in Motion: Game or Urban Transport Model?
Often the gaming world is closer to the urban modelling and transport flow research world than many would think. One such case is Cities in Motion (CIM) a city-based mass transportation simulator for the PC. Players operate their own transportation com…
Continue reading »Soviet Military Maps of London
Yes the U.S.S.R. had its own maps of London, and other […]
Continue reading »Complex Adaptive Systems
The other day I was teaching a class in the Introduction of Computational Social Science at GMU on complex adaptive systems and I came across the talk below by John Holland and thought it was worth sharing.
Continue reading »Complex Adaptive Systems
The other day I was teaching a class in the Introduction of Computational Social Science at GMU on complex adaptive systems and I came across the talk below by John Holland and thought it was worth sharing.
Continue reading »Fluid Dynamics and ABM used for the evacuation of a city
Emergencies are times of great uncertainty and while GIS has been used for a long time for planning evacuations, it has only been during the last few years that agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used to study peoples behavior in such situations. …
Continue reading »Fluid Dynamics and ABM used for the evacuation of a city
Emergencies are times of great uncertainty and while GIS has been used for a long time for planning evacuations, it has only been during the last few years that agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used to study peoples behavior in such situations. …
Continue reading »Cities as Organisms
You go to conferences and learn about older papers that you should have known about. This short article from 1999 by Thomas Graedel poses the key issues about energy, ecosystems and cities, part of a series from the National Academy … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Lisbon the Place to Be – Some Toughts
This will be some relate, but maybe thrown together rumbling over a trip to Lisbon with bits and pieces of a conference and various thoughts and discussion extracts that link to this particular context. Being on the road usually brings up numerous new …
Continue reading »By: Victor Ferreira
The main focus of most efforts like the one portraied seem to be Internet images, maybe because of the untapped resource it is, for the sheer volume of images available. But you can do it with your one images also, as we have been doing it in my resear…
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