The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
TITHERIDGE, H. and HALL, P. (2006) Changing travel to work patterns in South East England, Journal of Transport Geography14, 60–75. The Greater South East England region of the UK constitutes a “global mega-city region”. The UK Government’s 2003 Sustainable Communities strategy …
Continue reading »NIELSEN, T.A.S. and HOVGESEN, H.H. (2008) Exploratory mapping of commuter flows in England and Wales, Journal of Transport Geography 16, 90–99 The paper uses the origin–destination commute data published from the 1991 and 2001 Census to explore the developments in …
Continue reading »ZHAO, F. and CHUNG, S. (2006) A Study of Alternative Land Use Forecasting Models, Final Report to the Florida DOT Systems Planning Office FSUTMS requires future land use forecasts as input data to predict future travel demand and transportation needs. …
Continue reading »On the 9th September CASA hosted a seminar discussing relationships between London and the South East region with a view to developing the most appropriate framework for land use transport modelling. Mike Batty introduced the SCALE and ARCADIA projects; Duncan …
Continue reading »A workshop on “Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards” organized jointly by Dr Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research and Puneet Kishor, Creative Commons in conjunction with the annual Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS), June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom. The workshop will be held at the School of Geography/Centre for Geospatial […]
Continue reading »Adaptation and Resilience in Cities: Analysis and Decision making using Integrated Assessment This project undertakes system-scale modelling of the inter-relationships between climate impacts, the urban economy, land use, transport and the built environment to enable the design of cities that …
Continue reading »COSMIC (COmplexity in Spatial dynaMICs) is a proposal linking three research groups (Vrie University (VU) Amsterdam, UCL and National University of Ireland at Maynooth (NUIM)) dealing with urban science and geo-spatial analysis. The network will focus on urban dynamic processes …
Continue reading »Small Changes leAd to Large Effects: Changing Energy Costs in Transport and Location Policy This project aims to explore the relationship between residential location and travel choice at the level of cities. It is undertaken jointly between the UCL Centre …
Continue reading »Flows of people and cars, full streets and walkways, platforms and crossings represent a dynamic urban metropolis in flux. Tokyo the 24 hour city is the ultimate density symbol and reference for flow representation. Through out the clip the individuals…
Continue reading »I created the heat maps application for England and Wales by using the crime data from www.police.uk. The Heat maps show all the crimes recorded by a police authority. There are 43 police authorities in England and Wales. You will …
Continue reading »Popcode is an augmented reality development tool kit.The website provides a development manual as well. Popcode at the Cambridge Science Festival from Cambridge University on Vimeo.
Continue reading »Popcode is an augmented reality development tool kit.The website provides a development manual as well. Popcode at the Cambridge Science Festival from Cambridge University on Vimeo.
Continue reading »Popcode is an augmented reality development tool kit.The website provides a development manual as well. Popcode at the Cambridge Science Festival from Cambridge University on Vimeo.
Continue reading »Popcode is an augmented reality development tool kit.The website provides a development manual as well. Popcode at the Cambridge Science Festival from Cambridge University on Vimeo.
Continue reading »Augmented Reality has become more pervasive in our life. The video clip shows the Unileve company promoting their brand Axe using augmented reality in London’s Victoria station.This is a tag-based augmented reality. When travelers are located on the…
Continue reading »Augmented Reality has become more pervasive in our life. The video clip shows the Unileve company promoting their brand Axe using augmented reality in London’s Victoria station.This is a tag-based augmented reality. When travelers are located on the…
Continue reading »Augmented Reality has become more pervasive in our life. The video clip shows the Unileve company promoting their brand Axe using augmented reality in London’s Victoria station.This is a tag-based augmented reality. When travelers are located on the…
Continue reading »Augmented Reality has become more pervasive in our life. The video clip shows the Unileve company promoting their brand Axe using augmented reality in London’s Victoria station.This is a tag-based augmented reality. When travelers are located on the…
Continue reading »Some of the most popular posts on spatialanalysis are about typographic maps. I thought it would be cool to put together some of my favourite’s for London. Click on each…
Continue reading »Welcome to the ENFOLDing homepage. This site is currently under construction, but will feature news and static content from the ENFOLDing project.
Continue reading »A UK-based charity “Christian Aid” has created a nice interactive world map of poverty around different countries, over a period of 200 years. The map can be viewed online at http://www.povertyover.com.
Continue reading »Migrations of people have existed for millennia and occur at a range of scales and time-periods (from small-scale journeys to work through to intercontinental resettlement). As a geographer I have long been interested in these and thought it was about time I mapped them! Using data from the Global Migrant Origin Database (thanks Adam for the tip) …
Continue reading »The tsunami wave, generated by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake of the East coast of Japan on the 11 March 2011, spread through out the pacific threatening many coastal sections in different countries. The water fore strongest hit the Japanese coast shortl…
Continue reading »Following successful funding for the European Union FP7 EveryAware and the EPSRC Extreme Citizen Science activities, the department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at UCL is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position and 3 PhD studentships. Please note that these positions are open to students from any EU country. These positions are in the […]
This is another great map animation from our friends in CASA. It is a year old now (almost to the day) but it remains one of the most engaging Twitter…
Continue reading »The dramatic events of the last few days unfolding in Japan have definitely also had an impact on how we assess safety risk and stability. As the rescue and stabilisation operations are still in progress the full extend of the disaster is not as of yet…
Continue reading »Oliver O’brien (A researcher in UCL) created a nice heatmap of Crime in London by using crime data for december, 2010. The map can be viewed by clicking here.
Continue reading »How do terms compare in usage over the centuries. With the Ngram Viewer now available on the Google Labs the massive stock of scanned books as part of the Google Book project becomes available for search. It allows for the graphing of terms according t…
Continue reading »UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology is reopening on 15 March, allowing some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world to be displayed for the first time, but in contrast to the more traditional museum outlook, the new Grant has integrated iPads, QRCodes and twitter into the mix via…
UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology is reopening on 15 March, allowing some of the rarest extinct animal specimens in the world to be displayed for the first time, but in contrast to the more traditional museum outlook, the new Grant has integrated iPads, …
Continue reading »The OpenStreetMap project started in London in 2004 and has since grown to be a huge map of the whole world. It can be thought of as the Wikipedia of…
Continue reading »A quick post with info on how the work of CASA (home of digital urban) has been used and featured in the media this week:CNN USA and The Discovery Channel both made use of Tweet-o-Meter to demonstrate the use of social media after the earthquake in Jap…
Continue reading »In a change to our regular broadcast, last week marked the release of three records with a Songs about Science element, to which I had a significant contribution. The first was Songs from the Scientific Cabaret, my first full-length album … Continue reading →
How to teach architecture? How to teach design and an understanding of context? Architecture is not something that happens isolated, architecture with it the building is always placed in the context of a fabric either rural or urban.Architecture is dif…
Continue reading »Inspired by Andrew Kesper’s ABC before/after photos of the Japan tsunami destruction, I have created a “scrubber” photo of the London Olympic construction site in the east of the capital, using the imagery available in Google Earth. The aerial photography is copyright Google and Bluesky. You can the see the original imagery in Google Earth by using the program’s timeline slider, there are some other years also available there, even one from December 1945.
Move your mouse over the picture, to swipe between the 2006 and 2010 imagery. Continue reading →
Continue reading »The devastating earthquake that hit Japan earlier on 2011-03-11 was with around 8.9 magnitude the biggest in the recent history. Even though Japan is probably the best prepared country on the world this is a dramatic shock for the nation and the whole …
Continue reading »The world is not short of London underground network maps, there is something very appealing about the mix of lines, curves, dashes and circles, all shown across a distinctive set…
Continue reading »As we all know from experience, maps generally focus on the physical quality of the space. They follow the box like idea of pace a a container with objects and chart these features one after the other in metric separations. Creating a mesh of abstract …
Continue reading »Mass urbanisation: why do we flock together? – Future Tense ABC Technology and Games
Continue reading »Pickled Moles And iPads: Grant Museum Set To Reopen LondonistWhat’s the collective noun for moles? Probably not ‘a jar’, yet this is one of the first sights that greets you on walking into the new Grant Museum. (By the way, see …
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