The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Traditionally Geographic Information System (GIS) have been exclusively run on the Windows platform. Only very few applications run on either cross platform or exclusively on the Mac. The idea behind a GIS is the linking of spatial content with table …
Continue reading »Traditionally Geographic Information System (GIS) have been exclusively run on the Windows platform. Only very few applications run on either cross platform or exclusively on the Mac. The idea behind a GIS is the linking of spatial content with table …
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July 19th marks my sophomore foray into the world of Bright Club – the research cabaret night at The Wilmington Arms in London’s Farringdon. People unfamiliar with Bright Club might reasonably find the concept a bit confusing – but it’s … Continue reading →
Written by Victor Gruen in 1964 who said “I can visualize a metropolitan organism in which cells, each one consisting of a nucleus and a protoplasm, are combined into clusterizations to form specialised organs like towns…..” He portrayed this idealised … Continue reading →
The GLA are currently advertising for a “Research and Statistical Analyst – Demography & School Rolls”. The role could be a good starting role for a capable person with a masters in a demography-related subject. If you happen to know of anyone who might be interested in applying then please direct them here: http://www.london.gov.uk/jobs/vacancies/gla2034 The closing […]
Continue reading »Spotted by Prof Michael Batty, our director here at CASA, while in Bath at the weekend: There is very little information on the scheme, on the Internet. As far as I can tell, it was announced as far back as … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Mobile augmented reality is not only for computer vision specialists but also for artists. There are a lot of attempts to use computer graphics in visual arts. Augmented reality is also one of the favourite techniques in visual arts. One of most int…
Continue reading »Mobile augmented reality is not only for computer vision specialists but also for artists. There are a lot of attempts to use computer graphics in visual arts. Augmented reality is also one of the favourite techniques in visual arts. One of most int…
Continue reading »Mobile augmented reality is not only for computer vision specialists but also for artists. There are a lot of attempts to use computer graphics in visual arts. Augmented reality is also one of the favourite techniques in visual arts. One of most int…
Continue reading »Mobile augmented reality is not only for computer vision specialists but also for artists. There are a lot of attempts to use computer graphics in visual arts. Augmented reality is also one of the favourite techniques in visual arts. One of most int…
Continue reading »Is this time of year again, summer shows are on and London has a great tradition for architecture summer shows. Two events that are a highlight every year are the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture Summer Show and the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilio…
Continue reading »Is this time of year again, summer shows are on and London has a great tradition for architecture summer shows. Two events that are a highlight every year are the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture Summer Show and the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilio…
Continue reading »In my work on social networks, one thing that has been of particular interest to me is the way that social network structure seems to be correlated with access to opportunity — both for individuals, and (though I think this …
Continue reading »A new exhibition – Sense and the City – ope […]
Continue reading »The Sense and the City exhibition at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden opens today, and runs until March next year. It includes a number of transport visualisations contributed by the team at UCL CASA, including a themed version of … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Social Networking is the biggest and most importantly the fastest growing Internet branch at the moment. The companies have managed such a steep intake of new users over the past 18 month and most of it translated into what the company is worth. It is …
Continue reading »Social Networking is the biggest and most importantly the fastest growing Internet branch at the moment. The companies have managed such a steep intake of new users over the past 18 month and most of it translated into what the company is worth. It is …
Continue reading »As cities get bigger, their capacity to innovate (hence their wealth) appears to scale super-linearly (with their size). But the idea that ‘big cities’ have ‘big brains’ and are smarter, is problematic as is their scaling and allometry. Read Changizi … Continue reading →
Yesterday was a busy day for CASA-UCL – after being featured by BBC technology we trotted down to Covent Garden in the evening to see the launch of Sense and the City – a London Transport museum exhibition featuring work … Continue reading →
Social networking is an internet phenomena and as such not limite to political borders. It spread rather quickly around the globe and is now as a range of maps recently has shown present on al continents as an important part of internet usage. THere ar…
Continue reading »Social networking is an internet phenomena and as such not limite to political borders. It spread rather quickly around the globe and is now as a range of maps recently has shown present on al continents as an important part of internet usage. THere ar…
Continue reading »OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner’s Guide – Erik Hazard, Packt Publishing The OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner’s Guide (buy: Amazon) is a guidebook for a technology that is relatively unknown in the broader technology world – OpenLayers being a JavaScript-based online mapping framework, the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Put my experiments with movies online. The current one is that based on linking our desktop LUTI model to Google Earth. Click here. No sound yet and still getting used to the capture. Click to explore the full Tyndall & … Continue reading →
Pleased that a feature on spatial data visualisation at UCL CASA has appeared as a video on the BBC News website today. It includes some work I did with Martin Austwick on animating the bike share in London – I … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Work from CASA features on the BBC Technology site today – full credits go to Jon Reades for Oyster visualizations, Joan Serras for national transport flows (more info on both here), Steven Gray for Tweet-0-Meters and me and Ollie O’Brien … Continue reading →
TweetI think I read about this in the Metro yesterday – a nice mix of the original Harry Beck concept and a little more spatial accuracy… If you’re interested in exploring further, go to http://london-tubemap.com/
Continue reading »With the possibilities of new computer technologies and the availability of rendering power physical models in architecture have lost the role as the main tool for spatial and physical shaping and testing of ideas. It is convenient with a few clicks t…
Continue reading »With the possibilities of new computer technologies and the availability of rendering power physical models in architecture have lost the role as the main tool for spatial and physical shaping and testing of ideas. It is convenient with a few clicks t…
Continue reading »Together with the digital mapping the 3D modes have become very popular and are of most mapping services these days. There is the basic terrain that can be rendered in 3D, but also the buildings. Google had from very early on 3D buildings for cities, g…
Continue reading »Together with the digital mapping the 3D modes have become very popular and are of most mapping services these days. There is the basic terrain that can be rendered in 3D, but also the buildings. Google had from very early on 3D buildings for cities, g…
Continue reading »…. according to the great cartographer Arthur Robinson, the two maps of traffic between Dublin and the rest of Ireland by Lt. Harness of the British Army in 1837, are the oldest. Mapped for the Irish Railway Commissioners prior to … Continue reading →
The widening of the planning process is something we have only seen happening in the past 20 years. Public consultations are older, but not public participation. There was a strong practice of participation in the late eighties and early nineties ,whic…
Continue reading »The widening of the planning process is something we have only seen happening in the past 20 years. Public consultations are older, but not public participation. There was a strong practice of participation in the late eighties and early nineties ,whic…
Continue reading »Aaron Koblin has produced some fantastic animations of airline flows reminiscent of some of Joan Serras’ work on our SIMULACRA blog. Check out Aaron’s flow stuff. He uses Google Maps to zoom in and out. Also dig into his web … Continue reading →
The ESRC’s Administrative Data Liaison Service will be holding a one day conference to highlight the power of administrative data using examples of current or completed research. The event will also provide an opportunity to explore the future for administrative data as a research resource, including new and developing mechanisms for accessing data. I am […]
Continue reading »For a decade or more, computer scientists have used procedural logics (grammars) to generate urban morphologies. The paper by Li and Miller uses such recursive procedures similar to those we used a while ago to generate fractal cityscapes. Watch their … Continue reading →
The discussion around the subjectivity of mapping and the potential of subjective mapping tools becoming possible with the ever greater penetration of gadgets an locative media is gaining momentum. There are a number of project focusing on the output o…
Continue reading »The discussion around the subjectivity of mapping and the potential of subjective mapping tools becoming possible with the ever greater penetration of gadgets an locative media is gaining momentum. There are a number of project focusing on the output o…
Continue reading »In a new book Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space Mark Shepard presents a discussion on the current state of the art of ubiquitous computing showcasing a range of five projects together with a series of essa…
Continue reading »In a new book Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space Mark Shepard presents a discussion on the current state of the art of ubiquitous computing showcasing a range of five projects together with a series of essa…
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