The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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Quiz: How well do you know the tube?
CityMetric You probably think you know the tube pretty well, right? You travel on it pretty frequently. You’re a dedicated CityMetric reader and we never stop banging on about it. But how well do you really know it? Like, really? Let’s find out, shall we? Embed … |
There are many definitions of ‘wicked problems’ – first characterised by Rittel and Webber in the 1970s – try googling to explore. However, essentially, they are problems that are well known, difficult and that governments of all colours have attempted … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The pixelstick got another outing over reading week, with our MRes students taking to the streets (and, um, a darkened lecture theatre) with their favourite images and visualisations. A couple of students didn’t bring their own, so we gave them … Continue reading →
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“Stand on the right AND left”: Why has TfL introduced standing-only escalators?
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
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Cinco segredos que a matemática pode revelar sobre o amor
Bondenews Você acha que matemática e relacionamentos tem alguma relação? Provavelmente não, mas Hanna Fry, uma jovem matemática do UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, demonstra em seu livro, “A matemática do amor”, que esses dois mundos podem … |
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This new tool lets you map Manchester’s new future housing and construction sites
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
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Microsoft’s Bing Maps now shows you real-time stills from traffic cameras
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
Mapping for Change, the social enterprise that I co-founded, has been assisting community groups to run air quality studies for the past 5 years. During this period we have worked in 30 communities across London, carrying out studies with different tools – from collecting leaves, to examining lichens, to using diffusion tubes. We have also followed … Continue reading New Citizen Science for air quality campaign
CASA and UCL Geography have several years of experience in developing online interactive mapping sites for research outreach. The purpose of these tools is to take spatial analysis and visualisation outputs from the research lab and make them accessible and useful for many users from a wide variety of sectors and backgrounds, including: wider academia, central and local government,…
Recently we visited the St Peter’s church in Hackney to check up on the digital prayer installation they have been using at the church for the past few months. It was shortly after the 13 November 2015 attack in Paris that shocked people across the world, so we were not […]
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Continue reading »As one part of my docotoral thesis, I have made the video that shows the relationship between ‘London End Austerity Now’ Protest on 20thJune 2015 and the Twitter acitivity on that day.The video gives you some details about the protest, the data and 3D …
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As one part of my docotoral thesis, I have made the video that shows the relationship between ‘London End Austerity Now’ Protest on 20thJune 2015 and the Twitter acitivity on that day.
As one part of my docotoral thesis, I have made the video that shows the relationship between ‘London End Austerity Now’ Protest on 20thJune 2015 and the Twitter acitivity on that day.
As the event blurb explained “the Giving Time experiments were led by a team from four UK universities, who wanted to know whether sharing information about how others have volunteered could help to improve volunteering… this was about giving time – and whether volunteers can be nudged. The methodology was randomised control trial (RCTs) in real-life … Continue reading Giving time – randomised experiments on volunteering and citizen social science
Carrying on with the theme of linking GIS to NetLogo for creating agent-based models. We would like to showcase two simple models. Both are based on using a shapefile to create Schelling-inspired segregation model.In the first model (as shown in the mo…
Continue reading »Carrying on with the theme of linking GIS to NetLogo for creating agent-based models. We would like to showcase two simple models. Both are based on using a shapefile to create Schelling-inspired segregation model.In the first model (as shown in the mo…
Continue reading »Will universities look different in 25 or 50 years’ time? I think at least some will, perhaps all. There will be new imperatives for successful countries and regions, and universities can play a crucial role. It is commonplace to say … Continue reading →
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A cyclist swore at Boris Johnson as he opened London’s latest cycle superhighway
CityMetric David Smith, at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has come up with a clever map to help us visualise all this. Drawing on UN data from 1950, 1990 and 2015, and projections for 2030, his map uses circles of different colours to represent the … |
Seungho Yoo – Member of Planning Support Board – Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, South Korea LinkedIn
Continue reading »Following a short project that was headed by Daniel Wyler of the University of Zürich in collaboration with the League of European Research Universities, two draft documents aimed at universities and research funders were developed. The documents can be found here, and there is scope to comments and suggest changes for the next month on … Continue reading Standards and Recommendations for Citizen Science (University of Zurich)
For fans all all things concrete comes this map of London’s most famous Brutalist buildings. Created by Blue Crow Media (see also their craft beer and cycling maps, it is the first in a new series of map-based guides to London architecture, focusing on the modern 1950s/60s “raw” concrete-heavy designs by Le Corbusier and others […]
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A mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationships
Naija247news Fry, who works at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis in London, explains in her 2014 TED Talk and recently released book, “The Mathematics of Love,” that the best predictor of long-lasting relationships is how positive and negative a couple … |
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La fórmula de la pareja ideal sirve para encontrar al empleado perfecto
Diario Gestión Hanah Fry es una matemática del UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis en Londres, que ha escrito el libro The Mathematics of Love (Las matemáticas del amor), en el que describe y da solución (matemática) al “problema de la unión estable”, es decir, … |
An important part of my intellectual toolkit has been Stafford Beer’s book Brain of the firm, published in 1972. Stafford Beer was a larger than life character who was a major figure in operational research, cybernetics, general systems theory and … Continue reading →
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Podcast: Max Porter
Little Atoms Dr Hannah Fry is a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Fry also regularly presents the Number Hub strand of BBC Worldwide’s YouTube channel, and regularly appears on radio and … |
The book ‘Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street‘ is launched today. It’s open access and free for you to download and read. The book is edited by Laura Vaughan, who led two research projects in which I was involved as co-investigator. First, ‘Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres‘ (2006-2009) and then ‘Adaptable … Continue reading Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street
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A man dressed as a superhero is fighting for pedestrian justice in Mexico City
CityMetric In Mexico City, an unofficial public service exists to protect the city’s pedestrians. His name is Peatónito, which translates as “Pedestrian Man”, and he wears all black and what looks like a Halloween superhero mask – but is, we’ve been assured since … |
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TfL’s new tube map shows walking distances in central London – and highlights …
CityMetric “Walking is a great way to get around London,” Transport for London’s walking page proclaims, with cheerful inanity. “It’s free, healthy and green.” And – even though this is the sort of statement that feels like it should end in an exclamation mark … Walking Tube Map – Transport for LondonTransport for London The Night Tube – Transport for LondonTransport for London TfL has released the first official ‘walk the Tube’ map for LondonEvening Standard |
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La fórmula de la pareja ideal sirve para fichar al empleado perfecto
EntornoInteligente Una nueva ecuación Hanah Fry es una matemática del UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis en Londres, que ha escrito el libro The Mathematics of Love (Las matemáticas del amor), en el que describe y da solución (matemática) al “problema de la … |
Fair ObserverThe 22nd Century CityFair ObserverMichael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). He …. Read more. WE BRING YOU PERSPECTIVES FROM AROUND …
Continue reading »The 22nd Century City Fair ObserverHow will we define cities in the next century when most populations will feel the influence of globalization?
Continue reading »The 22nd Century City Fair ObserverHow will we define cities in the next century when most populations will feel the influence of globalization?
Continue reading »The 22nd Century City Fair ObserverHow will we define cities in the next century when most populations will feel the influence of globalization?
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Today, the London Transport Museum unveils a new permanent gallery in its space in Covent Garden, called “London by Design“. The gallery includes a number of maps which have not been exhibited before, including this lovely map of the “Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (of which the Bakerloo Line‘s name is a portmanteau) which first […]
Continue reading »The slides below are from a talk that I gave today at UCL Institute for Global Prosperity The abstract for the talk is: With a growing emphasis on civil society-led change in diverse disciplines, from International Development to Town Planning, there is an increasing demand to understand how institutions might work with the public effectively … Continue reading UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Talk: Extreme Citizen Science – Current Developments
The idea of ‘optimisation’ is basic to lots of things we do and to how we think. When driving from A to B, what is the optimum route? When we learn calculus for the first time, we quickly come to … Continue reading →
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How can British cities attract start ups?
CityMetric The origins of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” or “Silicon Fen” – the cluster of high-tech businesses based in and around the city – is often traced back to the 1960s, and the establishment of one of the UK’s first technology transfer companies, Cambridge … |
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Tableau Conference 2015: All about the Data
Flip the Media … best-selling author of “Drive” and host of the TV show “Crowd Control”; Dr. Hannah Fry, a mathematician at University College London Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis; and Sir Ken Robinson, best-selling author and internationally acclaimed … |
The digital prayer installations have been in use since July at St Michael’s church in Hawkshead, Cumbria, and at St Peter’s church in Hackney, London. These churches were chosen for the pilot project for their contrasting locations and different types of church communities: St Michael’s is in rural Lake District […]
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Continue reading »Tableau Conference 2015: All about the Data Flip the MediaFeatured image courtesy of Tableau. On the surface, doctors, mathematicians and designers don’t seem to have much in common. Look a little closer though, …
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