The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
While more people are living in urban areas than ever before, and this is expected to grow in the coming decades, this growth is not equal. Some cities are actually shrinking, such as Detroit in the United States. The causes of urban shrinkage have bee…
Continue reading »Most London pavements not wide enough for social distancing, says UCL research TransportXtra
Continue reading »Most London pavements not wide enough for social distancing, says UCL research TransportXtra
Continue reading »Most London pavements not wide enough for social distancing, says UCL research TransportXtra
Continue reading »Most London pavements not wide enough for social distancing, says UCL research TransportXtra
Continue reading »Most people today are actively engaged on at least one social networking site, enabling individuals to keep in touch with old friends, connect with new people, and rapidly disseminate information to all. The method by which users find and link up with …
Continue reading »Most people today are actively engaged on at least one social networking site, enabling individuals to keep in touch with old friends, connect with new people, and rapidly disseminate information to all. The method by which users find and link up with …
Continue reading »Blue Crow Media, long-time makers of bespoke themed maps of London and other places, have switched from their regular architecture focus and produced a lovely new map focusing on notable trees in the capital. There are around as many trees as people in…
Continue reading »ULI Europe Webinar: Promoting Housing Affordability | ULI Urban Land
Continue reading »Trust for London (TFL), a charity and themselves a major funder of charitable projects in London to address poverty and inequality, has this week launched the London Poverty Profile (LPP) 2020. There is an updated data-driven website with over 100 different indicators of poverty and inequality, compiled by WPI Economics, along with a PDF report […]
Continue reading »Our Little Book of Connected Environments is about opening up the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to provide information about our environment. From city-wide systems and the idea of the Smart City through to bui…
Continue reading »Recently, I have been teaching a Full-stack development bootcamp at CodeOp (great experience!). When the students reached project phase, I was very pleased to see a lot of interest in using maps. And that is easy to understand, right? geospatial … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Recently, I have been teaching a Full-stack development bootcamp at CodeOp (great experience!). When the students reached project phase, I was very pleased to see a lot of interest in using maps. And that is easy to understand, right? geospatial … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Waiters were the stars at celebrity kosher joint Blooms The Times
Continue reading »‘THE’ is a mini MQTT Information Display for Time, News and Environmental Information. Using a 4.2-inch eInk screen, its concept is simple – to display information on a rotational basis, updating every coupl…
Continue reading »In the second of our blogs reflecting back and looking ahead, we welcome Associate Professor Paul Norman, University of Leeds, reflecting on changing data sources for contemporary research. Population geographers started the ‘twenty-teens’ looking forward to the then census rounds, though internationally there had been more than a few rumblings that the era of censuses was coming … More Doing population geography, but what data sources are we doing it with?
Continue reading »While there are many sophisticated urban growth and planning models (e.g. the SLEUTH model and UrbanSim), there are also many more theoretical ones which say explore the evolution of land markets. Take for example Alonso’s (1964) urban land market theo…
Continue reading »While there are many sophisticated urban growth and planning models (e.g. the SLEUTH model and UrbanSim), there are also many more theoretical ones which say explore the evolution of land markets. Take for example Alonso’s (1964) urban land market theo…
Continue reading »Virtual map preserves memories of Jewish East End through photos and testimonies Jewish News
Continue reading »“Bloody London” is a new book by author, illustrator cartographer David Fathers. Previously writing about the Thames Path in London, the Regents’ Canal and London’s “lost rivers“, David has for this book focused on a…
Continue reading »US government is ‘in talks with Facebook and Google’ to track coronavirus Daily Mail
Continue reading »US government is ‘in talks with Facebook and Google’ to track coronavirus Brinkwire
Continue reading »Infosecurity Europe brings renowned mathematician to keynote stage for a lesson in predicting human behaviour through algorithms EnterpriseTalk
Continue reading »Infosecurity Europe brings renowned mathematician to keynote stage for a lesson in predicting human behaviour through algorithms ResponseSource
Continue reading »Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? WIRED
Continue reading »Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? WIRED
Continue reading »Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea? WIRED
Continue reading »As a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, UCL, like many other universities, is switching to online teaching and interaction between staff, students, and also research teams. I wanted to share what I’ve learned over the year through my use of online teaching and management tools. The experience is based on using tools such as Moodle … Continue reading What I learned about online teaching and research management?
Continue reading »Hannah Fry: Data could help control UK coronavirus outbreak Verdict
Continue reading »Big Tech Is Testing You The New Yorker
Continue reading »Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) might have noticed at the end of each semester I do a post pertaining to class models from the various courses I teach. This often involves a short movie of some of these models like the one below.Often I ge…
Continue reading »Avid readers of this blog (if there are any) might have noticed at the end of each semester I do a post pertaining to class models from the various courses I teach. This often involves a short movie of some of these models like the one below.Often I ge…
Continue reading »One of London’s hardest challenge, the Circle Line Pub Crawl, got even harder a few years ago when Transport for London reconfigured the line to have a “tail” extending down to Hammersmith. Now, there are 35 tube stations and correspo…
Continue reading »City in the Air, Arata IsozakiCentre for Cities have put up a new City Talks podcast I did with CEO Andrew Carter, talking about cities, clusters, cluster policy tools and the Tech City programme. Later on we also go into some more nerdy stuff about po…
Continue reading »Wordsworth digital poetry walk launches in 250th anniversary year The Westmorland Gazette
Continue reading »Wordsworth digital poetry walk launches in 250th anniversary year The Westmorland Gazette
Continue reading »Continuing our work on shootings we recently had a paper published in Criminology and Public Policy entitled: “Responses to Mass Shooting Events: The Interplay Between the Media and the Public.” However, here we do not look at bots but instead explore …
Continue reading »Continuing our work on shootings we recently had a paper published in Criminology and Public Policy entitled: “Responses to Mass Shooting Events: The Interplay Between the Media and the Public.” However, here we do not look at bots but instead explore …
Continue reading »In most of our work to date with respect to exploring social media, we have only looked at the text or images from online social media platforms (e.g. Twitter and Flickr) and excluded emojis from the analysis. However, this has now changed with a…
Continue reading »In most of our work to date with respect to exploring social media, we have only looked at the text or images from online social media platforms (e.g. Twitter and Flickr) and excluded emojis from the analysis. However, this has now changed with a…
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