The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Its been a long time in the making but now “Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Primer” has been published by Sage. We (Nicolas Malleson, Ed Manley, Alison Heppenstall and myself) approached this book from two standp…
Continue reading »Its been a long time in the making but now “Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems: A Practical Primer” has been published by Sage. We (Nicolas Malleson, Ed Manley, Alison Heppenstall and myself) approached this book from two standp…
Continue reading »Geodesign for a Sustainable Europe esri.com
Continue reading »I was a guest earlier this week at HERE Techologies at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019 in Las Vegas, the world’s biggest consumer electronics trade show. Their booth was directly right outside the main entrance to the Convention Centre, the hub of CES, right beside Google’s own huge one. The juxtaposition was interesting, the … Continue reading A Day with HERE at CES →
Continue reading »Data Cities: how post-internet technology is changing the way we design our world Foreground[This is an abridged extract from Davina Jackson’s book Data Cities: How satellites are transforming architecture and design (Lund Humphries 2019). C…
Continue reading »Most of the time when I teach a class instead of setting a final exam, I ask the students to carryout an end of semester research project. In my Introduction to Computational Social Science class this project entails the development of a computation…
Continue reading »Most of the time when I teach a class instead of setting a final exam, I ask the students to carryout an end of semester research project. In my Introduction to Computational Social Science class this project entails the development of a computation…
Continue reading »I was in Paris just before Christmas, taking part in a workshop at IFSSTAR (Université Paris-Est) on innovations in flow visualisation – GFlowiz. I talked/demonstrated some old and new ways that I and others have shown commute journeys in the UK on the web, looking both at The Great British Bike to Work and TubeCreature … Continue reading A Glimpse of the Future in Paris →
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The HERE Urban Mobility Index profiles 30 cities around the world, looking at how connected, sustainable, affordable and innovative they are, relating to urban mobility – the options that people have to move around the city area. London is one of the cities and scores first place for its public transport efficiency and low emission […]
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My new book is published on 11th December 2018 in the US and on the 8th January 2019 in the UK We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems … Continue reading →
Last week I gave a talk to Department of Computational and Data Sciences colloquium series entitled to “Computational Modeling of Slums: Progress and Challenges” in which I discussed some of our current work on slums. This talk was inspired by several …
Continue reading »Last week I gave a talk to Department of Computational and Data Sciences colloquium series entitled to “Computational Modeling of Slums: Progress and Challenges” in which I discussed some of our current work on slums. This talk was inspired by several …
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It’s been a wet and drab December so far – so why not escape the gloom and get into the spirit of the season with the biggest Christmas market/funfair in London? Winter Wonderland, which occupies a huge space at the eastern end of Hyde Park, stretching almost from Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner. The […]
Continue reading »The Little Globe Company is Loraine Rutt, a London-based cartographer and artist who specialises in maps created from clay, perhaps most famously crafting and hand-painting miniature porcelain globes in painstakingly precise detail. Her output is not just globe-based though, as this piece, showing London’s relief (hills and valleys) as well as its river network, both […]
Continue reading »Urban and slum areas in Nairobi (False composite image created by stacking image bands 7, 6 and 4 from the Landsat 8 satellite.Turning back to slums, we just published paper entitled “Detecting and Mapping Slums using Open Data: A Case Study in Kenya”…
Continue reading »Urban and slum areas in Nairobi (False composite image created by stacking image bands 7, 6 and 4 from the Landsat 8 satellite.Turning back to slums, we just published paper entitled “Detecting and Mapping Slums using Open Data: A Case Study in Kenya”…
Continue reading »Recently our research has started to dig deeper into social media, especially how bots diffuse information in online social networks (OSNs). To this end at the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications we had a paper…
Continue reading »Recently our research has started to dig deeper into social media, especially how bots diffuse information in online social networks (OSNs). To this end at the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications we had a paper…
Continue reading »This lovely map, hand-created by artist-cartographer Adam Dant, which was commissioned by the East End Trades Guild, is launched today at their Christmas takeover of Old Spitalfields Market – you’ll be able to pick up a free copy there. The map shows the locations of some of the more interesting traders and small businesses in […]
Continue reading »The Greater London Authority has published a data map, showing the locations within London where tree canopies can be seen from overhead. There are about as many trees as people in London, and 21% of the capital’s land area is covered by them. This is an impressive number – this must make London one of […]
Continue reading »It seems life and work is less than compatible with #content generation for this blog, so ‘why don’t I just’, I figure, ‘write a short piece about the research I have been doing in all this time’. I also figured this was a good idea, so here is the first in what I’m going to …
Continue reading “Spatiotemporal Variation in Travel Regularity”
Continue reading »November 24 marks 10 years since Louise Francs, Chris Church and myself set up Mapping for Change. It’s a proud moment when the social enterprise that was set out of a research project at UCL is now well established, and the work that it does is mentioned in the annual report of the Chief Medical … Continue reading 10 years of Mapping for Change
Continue reading »21st Nov 2018 PGRG Blog #15 Nik Lomax In our paper “Estimating the outcome of UKs referendum on EU membership using e-petition data and machine learning algorithms“, recently published in the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, we use novel e-petition data and machine learning algorithms to estimate the Brexit leave vote percentage for UK parliamentary constituencies. … More Mapping Brexit votes using novel e-petition data and machine learning
Continue reading »One of the joys of the Doing it Together Science project is that it provides opportunities to work closely with different partners from very different areas. One such a collaboration is with Bruno Strasser and his group at the University of Geneva who are researching citizen science from an STS/history of science perspective. Over the … Continue reading Citizen Science: Expertise, Democracy and Public Participation – Report for Swiss Science Council
Continue reading »Fostering university-public sector partnerships in the development of smart cities | News Perspectives@SMU“What are the challenges in integrating technical and social disciplines into a single research project?” “How can the ASEAN Smart Citi…
Continue reading »In the current SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter whose theme is Urban Analytics and Mobility, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak and myself have a paper entitled “Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development”. In the paper we discuss how synthetic urban area…
Continue reading »In the current SIGSPATIAL Special Newsletter whose theme is Urban Analytics and Mobility, Joon-Seok Kim, Hamdi Kavak and myself have a paper entitled “Procedural City Generation Beyond Game Development”. In the paper we discuss how synthetic urban area…
Continue reading »15th November 2018 PGRG Blog #14 Lili Xiang Attending the Third International Conference on Geographies of Education (GoE III) was really a memorable and inspiring experience for me. I am a final year PhD student from the School of Geography, University of Leeds. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a geography teacher and form … More The family get together for education geographers
Continue reading »Next in BIM: City Information Modelling (CIM) Planning, BIM & Construction Today
Continue reading »Next in BIM: City Information Modelling (CIM) Planning, BIM & Construction Today
Continue reading »Next in BIM: City Information Modelling (CIM) Planning & Building Control TodayBIM has radically changed the way we think about building design in terms of collaboration and visualisation. Can City Information Modelling do the same for …
Continue reading »Geodesign Summit Europe Heads to Scenic Salzburg esri.com
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In celebration of the Christmas lights being switched on in Covent Garden this evening, we feature this lovely map of the precinct, which has been drawn by artist Adam Dant, for The Covent Gardener, a periodical that focuses on the landmarks, shops and residents and characters of London’s famous and bustling shopping and tourism heart, […]
Continue reading »I’ve mentioned in the previous posts about the introduction and conclusions chapters in the book “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy” and the chapter about citizen science in universities. The final chapter in the book that I would like to highlight is my chapter “participatory citizen science“. As Rick Bonney pointed to me, on the face … Continue reading New publication: Participatory citizen science
Continue reading »12th November, 2018 PGRG Blog #13 Jacob Fairless Nicholson Jacob Fairless Nicholson is a postgraduate researcher in his third year at King’s College London. His work charts the geographies of ‘Black education spaces’ in London 1960-1990. Jacob visited the three-day Third International Conference on Geographies of Education at Loughborough University (Monday 3rd September to … More Impressions from the Third International Conference on Geographies of Education
Continue reading »In addition to the introduction and conclusion chapters in the book “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy“, I have contributed to content chapters that are at the body of the book. Daniel Wyler, from the University of Zurich, led on the writing of the chapter “Integrating citizen science into university” and I … Continue reading New publication: Integrating citizen science into university
Continue reading »The previous post described the opening chapter of “Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Policy, Science and Society“, which apart from the first 7 pages, is following a fairly standard pattern of introduction chapters – an overview of the sections and explaining the logic behind organising the chapters and the order that they appear, and description … Continue reading New publication: Citizen science to foster innovation in open science, society and policy
Continue reading »Fig. 7. Stimulus-Awareness-Activism (SA2) frameworkPreviously we have posted on how one can use new sources of data (e.g. Volunteered Geographical Information) to explore and understand the world around us, such as mass migration, urban form and …
Continue reading »Fig. 7. Stimulus-Awareness-Activism (SA2) frameworkPreviously we have posted on how one can use new sources of data (e.g. Volunteered Geographical Information) to explore and understand the world around us, such as mass migration, urban form and …
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Readers of Mapping London, and Londoners in general, will be very familiar with the striking straight lines of the Tube Map. But you probably won’t have seen this map before, which employs the same kind of schematisation to show London’s now completely vanished tram and trolleybus network (there is a tram in south London now, […]
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