The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The Borders Railway opened last week – a 30 mile new railway running between Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders, which was for the last fifty years the largest populated region in the UK without a railway connection. The railway largely follows the route of the Waverley Line, which used to connect Edinburgh to Carlisle via … Continue reading Demographics of the Borders Railway
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Game: Can you identify these cities from space?
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 … |
My European Research Council (ERC) grant comes to an end in 3 months time. You can hear me talk about the project courtesy of an ERC podcast by clicking here but in this post I will tell you what the project … Continue reading →
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Here’s a map of some of London’s finest city farms
CityMetric Duncan 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 … |
This short video (6 minutes) give an introduction to the findings from a recent report on environmental citizen science and discussion with Tom Wakeford (Coventry University) about core aspects of citizen science and its potential in terms of policy, especially when it relates to environmental issues. The report can be found on the European Commission website, and is … Continue reading Environmental Citizen Science overview and interview with Tom Wakeford
The second day of the Citizen Cyberlab Summit followed the same pattern of the first day: Two half day sessions, in each one short presentations from guest speakers from outside the project consortium, followed by two demonstrations of specific platform, tool, pilot or learning, and ending with discussion in groups, which were then shared back. The first … Continue reading Citizen Cyberlab Summit (day 2)
The Citizen Cyberlab Summit is the final event of the Citizen Cyberlab project. The name might sound grand, but the event itself was fairly intimate and focused, with about 40 participants from across the world. The aim of the event was to share the learning from the project and compare them to similar activities around the world. It … Continue reading Citizen Cyberlab Summit (day 1)
Artist Gareth J Wood, aka Fuller, unveiled this striking black-and-weight map-based artwork over London, yesterday. The work was started way back in 2005, and after a four-year pause, Fuller came back and completed the piece, which is well over a metre wide. The work, which can be seen alongside similar works for Bristol and Purbeck, […]
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A deluge of new data created by people and machines is changing the way that we understand, organise and model urban spaces. New analytics are required to make sense of these data and to usefully apply findings to real systems. This session seeks to bring together quantitative or mixed methods papers that develop or use new analytics in order to better understand the form, function and future of urban systems. We invite methodological, theoretical and empirical papers that engage with any aspect of urban analytics. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Please e-mail the abstract and key words with your expression of intent to Nick Malleson (n.s.malleson@leeds.ac.uk) by 22nd October, 2015 (one week before the AAG session deadline). Please make sure that your abstract conforms to the AAG guidelines in relation to title, word limit and key words and as specified at:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers
An abstract should be no more than 250 words that describe the presentation’s purpose, methods, and conclusions.
A deluge of new data created by people and machines is changing the way that we understand, organise and model urban spaces. New analytics are required to make sense of these data and to usefully apply findings to real systems. This session seeks to bring together quantitative or mixed methods papers that develop or use new analytics in order to better understand the form, function and future of urban systems. We invite methodological, theoretical and empirical papers that engage with any aspect of urban analytics. Topics include, but are not limited to:
Please e-mail the abstract and key words with your expression of intent to Nick Malleson (n.s.malleson@leeds.ac.uk) by 22nd October, 2015 (one week before the AAG session deadline). Please make sure that your abstract conforms to the AAG guidelines in relation to title, word limit and key words and as specified at:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers
An abstract should be no more than 250 words that describe the presentation’s purpose, methods, and conclusions.
The next few months sees me starting collaborations on two new projects with the historians in the Survey of London, a group that, since the time of Victoria, have been tracing the story of London’s built environment. We’ll be working … Continue reading →
The next few months sees me starting collaborations on two new projects with the historians in the Survey of London, a group that, since the time of Victoria, have been tracing the story of London’s built environment. We’ll be working … Continue reading →
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Podcast: Dr David Adam and Gaia Vince
Little Atoms This week Neil Denny talks with David Adam, and there’s a repeat of our interview with Gaia Vince from August 2014. This show also marks the 10th anniversary of Little Atoms. We first broadcast on Resonance FM on 16th September 2005. Dr David Adam is … |
View the full map as a lovely vector PDF The Transport for London (TfL) tube map, with its straight lines, 45-degree rounded corners and simple, clear cartography, is a design classic. The map dispenses with other features such as parks, roads and urban extents – because you don’t need those if you are getting from […]
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An Amsterdam bike hire company is encouraging cyclists to offer tourists lifts …
CityMetric Rather than thinking big, we need to think massive small. Kelvin Campbell runs the Smart Urbanism social network and the Massive Small campaign. He is visiting professor at Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, London. He also wrote CABE’s “By … |
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Only bottom up development can end the housing crisis and regenerate our cities
CityMetric Kelvin Campbell runs the Smart Urbanism social network and the Massive Small campaign. He is visiting professor at Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, London. He also wrote CABE’s “By Design”, the basis of UK’s urban design policy for many … |
Only bottom up development can end the housing crisis and regenerate our cities CityMetricHow did housing become so complicated? How did it even become a crisis? Housing used to be a basic instinct: people just did it. And it was never the d…
Continue reading »Just a quick report on the 19th European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography, which took place near Bari in Puglia, South-east Italy, earlier this month, and which a significant amount of the quantitative geography group here at UCL attended, including myself. The meeting was held at an agricultural college in a university town a … Continue reading ECTQG 2015 →
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Now Jeremy Corbyn is leader, five tests for the Labour movement
Little Atoms In Jeremy Corbyn, Labour has elected its most left-wing leader in the post-war period with nearly 60 per cent of the vote. For all the talk of solidarity across the movement, Corbyn’s victory asks serious questions of the wider Labour movement. Is this … |
John HiggsLittle AtomsJohn Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, and the novel The Brandy of the Damned. His latest book is Stranger Than We Can Imag…
Continue reading »Little AtomsPodcast: Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden and Jon ButterworthLittle AtomsThe first of three episodes of Little Atoms in association with the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. This week Neil Denny talks with shortlisted auth…
Continue reading »The London based Building Centre organised an evening event – from Mapping to Making – which looked at the “radical evolution in the making and meaning of maps is influencing creative output. New approaches to data capture and integration – from drones to crowd-sourcing – suggest maps are changing their impact on our working life, … Continue reading Building Centre – from Mapping to Making
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Better Than ‘Blade Runner’: Re-Imagining Our Cities
Huffington Post UK A powerful example of image technologies’ power to alter the future was the ReMap Lima project conducted in Peru by the Bartlett’s Development Planning Unit with the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, collaborating with local groups and citizens … |
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Better Than ‘Blade Runner’: Re-Imagining Our Cities
Huffington Post UK Drawn to the Future, a major exhibition on visualization technology featuring leading pioneers in architecture and engineering tech, highlights how our experience of our cities and buildings will rapidly change. Images of the city have always wielded … |
Image 1. The tweet density from 8am to 4pm on 20th June 2015, Central London Twitter Mapping is increasingly useful method to link virtual activities and geographical space. Geo-tagged data attached to tweets containing the users’ location where the…
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Image 1. The tweet density from 8am to 4pm on 20th June 2015, Central London
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Table 1. The Number of Geo-Coded Tweets in the UK on 20th June, 2015
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| Image 2. The density of Geo-Coded Tweets in the UK on 20th June, 2015 |
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Image 3. The plan view of Central London model
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Image 4. The perspective view of Central London model
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Image 5. The perspective view of Central London model (view from BT Tower)
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Image 6. The tweet density between 10am and 11am on 20th June 2015
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Image 7. The tweet density between 12pm and 1pm on 20th June 2015
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Image 8. The tweet density from 12am to 12pm
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Image 9. The tweet density from 12pm to Midnight
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Image 10. The tweet density in 3d between 10am and 11am on 20th June 2015
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Image 11. The tweet density in 3d between 12pm and 1pm on 20th June 2015
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Image 12. The tweet density in 3d from 12am to 8pm
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Image 13. The tweet density in 3d from 8am to 4pm
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Image 14. The tweet density from 4pm to Midnight
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[3] Nicolas Belmonte, #interactive/Andes, http://twitter.github.io/interactive/andes/ (Strived on 15th August 2015)
[4] Andy Hudson-Smith, London’s Twitter Island – From ArcGIS to Max to Lumion, http://www.digitalurban.org/2012/01/londons-twitter-island-from-arcgis-to.html#comment-7314
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Image 1. The tweet density from 8am to 4pm on 20th June 2015, Central London
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Table 1. The Number of Geo-Coded Tweets in the UK on 20th June, 2015
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Image 3. The plan view of Central London model
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Image 4. The perspective view of Central London model
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Image 5. The perspective view of Central London model (view from BT Tower)
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Image 6. The tweet density between 10am and 11am on 20th June 2015
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Image 7. The tweet density between 12pm and 1pm on 20th June 2015
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Image 8. The tweet density from 12am to 12pm
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Image 9. The tweet density from 12pm to Midnight
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Image 10. The tweet density in 3d between 10am and 11am on 20th June 2015
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Image 11. The tweet density in 3d between 12pm and 1pm on 20th June 2015
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Image 12. The tweet density in 3d from 12am to 8pm
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Image 13. The tweet density in 3d from 8am to 4pm
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Image 14. The tweet density from 4pm to Midnight
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[3] Nicolas Belmonte, #interactive/Andes, http://twitter.github.io/interactive/andes/ (Strived on 15th August 2015)
[4] Andy Hudson-Smith, London’s Twitter Island – From ArcGIS to Max to Lumion, http://www.digitalurban.org/2012/01/londons-twitter-island-from-arcgis-to.html#comment-7314
(Strived on 15thAugust 2015)
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Better Than ‘Blade Runner’: Re-Imagining Our Cities
Huffington Post UK A powerful example of image technologies’ power to alter the future was the ReMap Lima project conducted in Peru by the Bartlett’s Development Planning Unit with the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis, collaborating with local groups and citizens. |
Yesterday, a British Airways flight 2276 from Las Vegas to London Gatwick had one of it’s engines catch fire at take off.During an evacuation of an aircraft, there are few a simple rules to follow. Look for the emergency exits, lights strips on the ais…
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Yesterday, a British Airways flight 2276 from Las Vegas to London Gatwick had one of it’s engines catch fire at take off.During an evacuation of an aircraft, there are few a simple rules to follow. Look for the emergency exits, lights strips on the ais…
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Yesterday, a British Airways flight 2276 from Las Vegas to London Gatwick had one of it’s engines catch fire at take off.During an evacuation of an aircraft, there are few a simple rules to follow. Look for the emergency exits, lights strips on the ais…
Continue reading »CASA took part in the Spark London Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park over the bank holiday weekend, showcasing work as part of two days celebrating UCL’s research in science, technology and engineering. Perennial favourite Pigeon Sim was once … Continue reading →
CASA took part in the Spark London Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park over the bank holiday weekend, showcasing work as part of two days celebrating UCL’s research in science, technology and engineering. Perennial favourite Pigeon Sim was once … Continue reading →
We recently had published in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information a paper entitled “Walk this Way: Improving Pedestrian Agent-Based Models through Scene Activity Analysis”. In the paper we explore how new data can help inform our agent-based…
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We recently had published in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information a paper entitled “Walk this Way: Improving Pedestrian Agent-Based Models through Scene Activity Analysis”. In the paper we explore how new data can help inform our agent-based…
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Here’s how we can save the car – and save the planet at the same time
CityMetric Rather than thinking big, we need to think massive small. Kelvin Campbell runs the Smart Urbanism social network and the Massive Small campaign. He is visiting professor at Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, London. He also wrote CABE’s “By … |
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Which city has the longest metro system?
CityMetric Kelvin Campbell runs the Smart Urbanism social network and the Massive Small campaign. He is visiting professor at Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL, London. He also wrote CABE’s “By Design”, the basis of UK’s urban design policy for many … |
TweetDear colleagues, Please follow this link to see a job advert from the Federal Institute for Population Research. The research group Demographic Change and World Population at the Federal Institute for Population Research is currently recruiting for a research fellow (48 month fixed term contract, full time). The research position requires a master degree (or […]
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The Space of Mind Designs and the Human Mental Model
h+ Magazine [Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Roman’s excellent book, Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach , republished with permission. Get it on Amazon here and use this discount coupon for a special price only available to h+ Magazine readers. |
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The Space of Mind Designs and the Human Mental Model
h+ Magazine [Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Roman’s excellent book, Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach , republished with permission. Get it on Amazon here and use this discount coupon for a special price only available to h+ Magazine readers. |