The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The ABMUS2018 workshop on Agent-based modelling of urban systems will held on 14/15 July 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. The workshop is part of the Federated AI Meeting (FAIM2018), which includes the AAMAS2018 conference and IJCAI-ECAI (International Joint…
Continue reading »The ABMUS2018 workshop on Agent-based modelling of urban systems will held on 14/15 July 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. The workshop is part of the Federated AI Meeting (FAIM2018), which includes the AAMAS2018 conference and IJCAI-ECAI (International Joint…
Continue reading »The Eilot region, near Eilat in Israel, is considered locally as a remote part of the Negev desert in Israel (it is about 3.5h drive from the population centres of Tel Aviv). It is an arid desert, with very sparse population – about 4000 people who live in communal settlements – mostly kibbutzim in an area … Continue reading Learning from the Arava Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research workshop
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This stunning map reveals the athletic footprint of London. Strava have taken their huge volume of movement data, recorded by runners, cyclists and other data-enabled fitness peeps and created a heatmap of London (and indeed, the world). Many people use Strava to record their cycle to work, whereas running to work is much rarer, so […]
Continue reading »This week, together with Margaret Gold, I facilitated a strategy meeting of the European Citizen Science Association. At the moment, because a recent lecture in the Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing course that was dedicated to environmental citizen science, the “Driving forces-Pressures-State-Impacts -Responses” (DPSIR) is in the front of my mind. In addition, … Continue reading From environmental management to organisational strategy development: Using Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-Response with ECSA
Continue reading »One of the lovely aspects of scientific research is its international dimension – the opportunity to collaborate with people from different places, cultures, and necessarily practices and points of view. During 2017, Dr Chnming Li, of the Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Science, was a visiting researcher in ExCiteS. Dr Li … Continue reading Participatory soundscape sensing – joint paper with Dr Chunming Li
Continue reading »At the upcoming GIScience 2018 conference, Raja Sengupta and Liliana Perez are organizing a workshop entitled: Rethinking the ABCs: Agent-Based Models and Complexity in the age of Big Data. To quote from the workshop website: “The scope of this w…
Continue reading »At the upcoming GIScience 2018 conference, Raja Sengupta and Liliana Perez are organizing a workshop entitled: Rethinking the ABCs: Agent-Based Models and Complexity in the age of Big Data. To quote from the workshop website: “The scope of this w…
Continue reading »At the upcoming GIScience 2018 conference, Raja Sengupta and Liliana Perez are organizing a workshop entitled: Rethinking the ABCs: Agent-Based Models and Complexity in the age of Big Data. To quote from the workshop website: “The scope of this w…
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Borough Update Meanwhile, the borough-by-borough rollout of dockless in London continues. Wandsworth has a forthcoming pilot, and has published the responses to a questionnaire given to six potential operators. Nearby Richmond is also planning on trialing dockless “by April”. Redbridge is bringing Ofo and Urbo in on 2 March. This will give Urbo a contiguous … Continue reading Bikeshare in London – Borough Update →
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The GLA published an interesting report last week: Future transport – How is London responding to technological innovation. It focused mainly on drones, driverless cars and app-based services (as an example, CityMapper’s experimenting on turning its huge desire-line dataset, created from the data of its millions of users and their journeys, into a group-based taxishare … Continue reading Future Transport Report and Dockless in London →
Continue reading »From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the Future newgeography.com
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From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the Future
Daily Beast … the tech companies’ own workers and whatever other people with skills the machines haven’t yet replaced are a new class of urban serfs living in small apartments, along with a much larger class of dependent persons living on “income maintenance … |
From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the … The Daily Beast
Continue reading »From Disruption to Dystopia: Silicon Valley Envisions the City of the Future The Daily BeastThe unaffordable Bay Area, Google’s new neighborhood ‘built from the internet up,’ and China’s police state each offer glimpses of what the tech gian…
Continue reading »The FamilyTies project: Family ties, internal migration and immobility Feb 17, 2018 PGRG Blog #9, February 2018 Clara H. Mulder Population geographers have played an important role in gaining understanding of migration patterns, processes and outcomes. However, despite a growing research attention to inter-generational care and geographical distances between family members, the role of ties … More Family ties, internal migration and immobility
Continue reading »Tranquil Pavement is an online map recently launched by the Tranquil City project based in London, in association with the Outlandish Cooperative and funded by Organicity. It aims to highlight tranquil places to visit, if the hustle and bustle of city life gets too much, by plotting “crowdsourced “locations – referenced in an Instagram feed […]
Continue reading »FIG. 2. ͑ Color ͒ An application of the SS. The axial map for the city… ResearchGate
Continue reading »The Doing It Together Science (DITOs) project is now in its 20th Month. It is a 3-year project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, that is aimed to increase awareness of and participation in citizen science across Europe and beyond. As such, it is focused on communication, coordination, and support of citizen science activities. Therefore, … Continue reading DITOs, Doing It TOgether Science – introductory video
Continue reading »This week, in the “Introduction to Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing“, our focus was on data management, to complete the first part of the course (the second part starts in a week’s time since we have a mid-term “Reading Week” at UCL). The part that I’ve enjoyed most in developing was the segment that addresses … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 5 – Data quality
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I should not say this but I don’t remember much about writing the attached piece which is entitled ‘Technology and the Democratic Management of Urban Complexity’ but here it is: click here. Published by Acciona and from a book entitled … Continue reading →
The Chiswick Timeline, a mural of maps showing the history of the pleasant west London neighbourhood, was successfully crowdfunded and launched last month. It appears alongside a road as it passes underneath a railway bridge by Turnham Green station. A commemorative book, reproducing the work, is available to buy online or at Foster’s Bookshop on […]
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A new paper from our group. Click here for the paper and also for the issue of Environment and Planning B . Abstract: Agglomeration economies are a persistent subject of debate in regional science and city planning. Their definition turns on … Continue reading →
In the 2018 State and Future of GEOINT Report published by the The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) we had a paper accepted entitled “The Future of GEOINT: Data Science Will Not Be Enough”. In the paper we discuss how there has …
Continue reading »In the 2018 State and Future of GEOINT Report published by the The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) we had a paper accepted entitled “The Future of GEOINT: Data Science Will Not Be Enough”. In the paper we discuss how there has …
Continue reading »In the 2018 State and Future of GEOINT Report published by the The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) we had a paper accepted entitled “The Future of GEOINT: Data Science Will Not Be Enough”. In the paper we discuss how there has …
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It looks like Brent will be the next London borough to get dockless bikeshare, with Mobike likely to be setting up in the borough within the next few weeks. The operator is not confirmed, although strongly hinted at, including by the council themselves. The choice of Mobike makes sense, as the operator already has a … Continue reading Dockless Continues to Expand – Here’s the Data →
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It looks like Brent will be the next London borough to get dockless bikeshare, with Mobike likely to be setting up in the borough within the next few weeks. The operator is not confirmed, although strongly hinted at, including by the council themselves. The choice of Mobike makes sense, as the operator already has a … Continue reading Mobike coming to Brent? →
Continue reading »Since the end of 2015, I’ve been using the following mapping of citizen science activities in a range of talks: The purpose of this way of presentation is to provide a way to guide my audience through the landscape of citizen science (see examples on SlideShare). The reason that I came up with it, is … Continue reading Citizen Science for Observing and Understanding the Earth
Continue reading »MilTechHigh Definition. Zero Tolerance in Design and Production. Architectural DesignMilTechHigh Definition will examine the capabilities of advanced technologies in design production through their impact on design theory, practice and greater levels o…
Continue reading »One of the aspects that fascinates me about the nature of participation in citizen science and crowdsourcing is the nature of participation and in particular participation inequality. As I’ve noted last week, when you look at large scale systems, you expected to see it in them (so Google Local Guides is exhibiting 95:5:0.005 ratio). I knew … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 3 – Participation inequality
Continue reading »Nick Malleson, Alison Heppenstall and myself recently had a chapter published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, entitled “Place-Based Simulation Modelling: Agent-Based Modelling and Virtual Environments”. In…
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Nick Malleson, Alison Heppenstall and myself recently had a chapter published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, entitled “Place-Based Simulation Modelling: Agent-Based Modelling and Virtual Environments”. In…
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Nick Malleson, Alison Heppenstall and myself recently had a chapter published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, entitled “Place-Based Simulation Modelling: Agent-Based Modelling and Virtual Environments”. In…
Continue reading »Regular readers of this site might of noticed that we have an interest in slums. In the past this has focused on modeling them from an agent-based perspective, comparing volunteered geographical information to more authoritative data on slums, to that …
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Regular readers of this site might of noticed that we have an interest in slums. In the past this has focused on modeling them from an agent-based perspective, comparing volunteered geographical information to more authoritative data on slums, to that …
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Regular readers of this site might of noticed that we have an interest in slums. In the past this has focused on modeling them from an agent-based perspective, comparing volunteered geographical information to more authoritative data on slums, to that …
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The ORR publishes station entry/exit numbers on an annual basis, on a “best guess” basis, using ticket sales, gate information and modelling. The data is split by ticket type – full fare, reduced fare (off-peak tickets, tickets bought with railcards, advance tickets, child tickets etc) and season tickets. They make this data available as an … Continue reading Railway Station Numbers →
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If Lumiere London, which finished yesterday, has whet your appetite for seeing artistic displays of light after dark, then there is another festival of lights which runs until Saturday. It’s at Canary Wharf and called Winter Lights. Think Lumiere London, in a smaller area and without the huge crowds. And, like the King’s Cross, it’s […]
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King’s Cross is one of the six Lumiere London areas, where light-based artworks are on display every evening until Sunday. We looked at the general maps of the event yesterday, but we discovered also that King’s Cross has its own map, showing where the exhibits are. You don’t have to follow the marked route, although […]
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