The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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Winter may be coming to Westeros – but our next ice age is on hold
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
The last 3 months were a gradual sigh of relief for the Extreme Citizen Science group (ExCites), Mapping for Change (MfC), and for me. As the UCL engineering website announced, the ExCiteS group, which I co-direct, secured funding through 3 research grants from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (H2020), with enough funding to continue … Continue reading Securing funding and balancing efforts: a tale of 21 research applications
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19 other things Zac Goldsmith can do, now he won’t be mayor of London
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
My immediately preceding blog post, ‘Truth is what we agree about’, provides a framework for thinking about competing models in the social sciences. There are competing models in physics, but not in relation to most of the ‘core’ – which … Continue reading →
Continue reading »A couple of months ago I attended a meeting at Wilton Park in Sussex organised by the Uk Government’s Tech City Hub (http://www.techcityuk.com/) and a cloud computing company called Improbable (http://improbable.io/) specialising in massively parallel agent based modelling (for cities, transport, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Lately I have been working a lot with docker, the new kid on the block on cloud computing, which is winning the heart of sysadmins, as well as developers. The main idea is to setup a Spatial Data Infrastructure, something … Continue reading →
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London, reimagined: alternative tube maps – in pictures
The Guardian Cost of living. This map reveals the average monthly cost of renting a one-bedroom flat at every stop on the London Underground network. Hyde Park is the most expensive at £2,920m, and Hatton Cross comes in cheapest at £324. Photograph: Thrillist … |
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London, reimagined: alternative tube maps – in pictures
The Guardian Cost of living. This map reveals the average monthly cost of renting a one-bedroom flat at every stop on the London Underground network. Hyde Park is the most expensive at £2,920m, and Hatton Cross comes in cheapest at £324. Photograph: Thrillist … |
London, reimagined: alternative tube maps – in pictures The GuardianAs London prepares to vote for a new mayor, explore some surprising angles on the city – from life expectancy to cost of living – in alternative underground …
Continue reading »London, reimagined: alternative tube maps – in pictures | Cities The GuardianAs London prepares to vote for a new mayor, explore some surprising angles on the city – from life expectancy to cost of living – in alternative underground …
Continue reading »London, reimagined: alternative tube maps – in pictures The GuardianAs London prepares to vote for a new mayor, explore some surprising angles on the city – from life expectancy to cost of living – in alternative underground …
Continue reading »Tweet Thanks to generous funding from The Economic and Social Research Council, for a project called: ‘Changing Socio-Spatial Inequalities: Population change and the lived experience of inequality in urban South Africa’, there is a post-doctoral research opportunity available, based at the University of Liverpool. Please see here for more details. […]
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Here’s everything we learned from an analysis of the colours on every metro map in the world
CityMetric Alright, alright, I’ll stop. As you obviously know, because that’s the kind of cool dude you are, those are the colour palettes used be three of the world’s most famous metro maps – the London Underground, Paris Metro and New York Subway respectively. |
One of the advantages of working in a multi-disciplinary and culturally diverse group is that I can become co-author in languages that I do not speak. Carolina Comandulli, who is doing her PhD research in the Brazil/Peru border area, led on the writing of a paper on ‘Extreme Citizen Science’ – we have collaborated on the writing … Continue reading New Paper: Extreme Citizen Science – a new approach (in Portuguese)
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London elects: What will a new mayor mean for Heathrow Airport?
CityMetric With Heathrow already operating at 98 per cent capacity, airport expansion will be one of the biggest issues facing the next mayor of London. Whoever is elected to the position won’t have the final say – that power lies with the UK government – but … |
The full details of new project is over on the Extreme Citizen Science blog (link below) so here is the two lines summary. Doing It Together Science (DITOs) is a three-year programme to increase public participation in scientific research and innovation across Europe. The project includes 11-partners and coordinated by UCL Extreme Citizen Science group. DITOs aims … Continue reading Introducing “Doing It Together Science” – an EU citizen science project
Tweet Fully Funded EPSRC PhD studentship on population stability and residential mobility in London There is an excellent opportunity to apply for a fully funded 4-year EPSRC PhD studentship at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, focusing on the long term prospects of large urban residential development initiatives in London in […]
Continue reading »I have spent much of the last three years working on the Government Office for Science Foresight project on The future of cities. The focus was on a time horizon of fifty years into the future. It is clearly impossible … Continue reading →
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As another London club closes, Amsterdam shows why we need a “night mayor”
CityMetric If you like going dancing in London, you’ve probably heard the bad news already. Dance Tunnel, the intimate Dalston club that has hosted DJs like Prosumer, Tama Sumo and Ben UFO, will close in August. In an announcement on Facebook, the club said … |
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What has mayor Joe Anderson done for Liverpool – and how will the new city region mayor change things?
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
CityMetricWhat has mayor George Ferguson done for Bristol?CityMetricIn a referendum in May 2012, the citizens of Bristol voted to introduce a directly elected mayor for the city. The following November, fifteen candidates, more than in any other mayora…
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Several months ago, we posted that we had just had a paper accepted entitled “Walk this Way: Improving Pedestrian Agent-Based Models through Scene Activity Analysis. The original model was created in MASON but know it has been reproduced in NetLogo. Th…
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Several months ago, we posted that we had just had a paper accepted entitled “Walk this Way: Improving Pedestrian Agent-Based Models through Scene Activity Analysis. The original model was created in MASON but know it has been reproduced in NetLogo. Th…
Continue reading »I have always been interested in philosophy. I was interested in the big problems – the ‘What is life about?’ kind of thing with, as a special subject, ‘What is truth?’. How can we know whether something – a sentence, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Yesterday I gave a talk on driven models to the Hong Kong Poly U Department of Land Surveying and Geomatics, and today at at 2-30pm in Geography at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. When I got to the Poly U yesterday – and I … Continue reading →
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Here’s why experts agree the EU is good for Britain’s environment
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
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We’ve toured Winston Churchill’s secret base on the Piccadilly Line
CityMetric Before it became crucial to winning the Second World War, Down Street tube station was a bit useless. A stop on the Piccadilly Line (back when the line was known as the Great Northern Piccadilly and Brompton Railway), it was in the heart of Mayfair … |
These attractive hand-drawn maps have been produced for a pocket guide “London’s Canals & Rivers” published by the Canal & River Trust by illustrator and cartographer Bek Cruddace. They show the navigable waterways around London, including the Thames and Lea Rivers and the Regent’s and Grand Union canals. The maps are designed for walkers and […]
Continue reading »Followers of English football will be aware that the top tier is the Premier League and that the clubs that finish in the top four at the end of the season play in the European Champions’ League in the following … Continue reading →
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The man who voiced the “Mind the Gap” announcement has died
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
Now that the press release by the European Research Council (ERC) is out, it’s time to share the great news: The Extreme Citizen Science group has secured €2.5m from the ERC to continue our journey towards Intelligent Maps. Building on the work that we’ve done with the support of the EPSRC in Extreme Citizen Science, and the … Continue reading ERC Advanced Grant: Extreme Citizen Science: Analysis and Visualisation
The reason why teaching undergrads is the best job I’ve ever done is because interacting with intelligent, energetic people is not the once-in-a-while happy coincidence it is in most jobs, but it’s the central purpose of what you’re supposed to be doing. Sure, there are the hours of marking, the jocks, the whingers (colleagues that … Continue reading “Economists should start doing themselves out of a job”
I argued in an earlier piece that game-changing advances in urban analytics may well depend on technological change. One such possibility is the introduction of block chain software. a block is a set of accounts at a node. This is … Continue reading →
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The tube map is almost certainly London’s most widely produced and collected map, with many millions of the pocket version being issued for free every year by TfL from London’s 270+ tube stations. But how about having one that’s made of steel? Well, now you can thanks to Suck UK, who have produced an officially […]
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The tube map is almost certainly London’s most widely produced and collected map, with many millions of the pocket version being issued for free every year by TfL from London’s 270+ tube stations. But how about having one that’s made of steel? Well, now you can thanks to Suck UK, who have produced an officially […]
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Quiz: Can you name the city from one photograph?
CityMetric Finally, our map of the week – which, I’ll be honest, we do no justice to whatsoever – is this magnificent piece of work by Duncan Smith of UCL’s Centre for Advanced spatial Analysis. It shows, at a glance, the growth of all the world’s major cities … |
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Why are there almost no bridges across Amsterdam’s largest river?
CityMetric If only: one of the proposed designs for a bridge across the IJ. Image: Fons Alkemade. What is Amsterdam famous for? Besides being Europe’s Sin City, and having one million bicycles, it’s also known as “Venice of the North”. The city has more than a … |
Hegel once said that ‘everything is connected to everything else’ and in our world of cities, this seems ever resonant with the problems that we face. Danny Hillis and Neri Oxman have called this the Age of Entanglement and in this … Continue reading →
Continue reading »There has been much discussion in recent years about the UK ‘productivity puzzle’: the shortfall in productivity between the UK and comparable EU states like Germany and France, with this gap widening in the last decade. One important perspective for understanding productivity relates to skills and education, and how well graduate skills are integrated with businesses and are helping … Continue reading Graduate Mobility and Closing the Productivity Gap for UK Cities →
This is one of the many data visualisation and design postcards that Stefanie Posavec and Georgia Lupi sent each other of the course of a year. It’s a personal map of Stefanie’s London history – where she lived, studied and worked, her main commute and other routes. Everyone living in London will build up a […]
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