The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The Guardian |
The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a stand
The Guardian Oliver Dawkins, doing degree work at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Casa), created a “Pops Profiler” that enables us to see how this plays out in the Square Mile. Publicly available data on Open Street Maps (OSM) do not indicate a single … |
The Guardian |
The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a …
The Guardian Oliver Dawkins, doing degree work at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Casa), created a “Pops Profiler” that enables us to see how this plays out in the Square Mile. Publicly available data on Open Street Maps (OSM) do not indicate a single … |
The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a stand The GuardianIn the first of a series on the changing nature of urban space, academic geographer and gonzo urbanist Bradley L Garrett discusses ‘Pops’ – priv…
Continue reading »The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a stand The GuardianIn the first of a series on the changing nature of urban space, academic geographer and gonzo urbanist Bradley L Garrett discusses ‘Pops’ – priv…
Continue reading »The privatisation of cities’ public spaces is escalating. It is time to take a stand The GuardianIn the first of a series on the changing nature of urban space, academic geographer and gonzo urbanist Bradley L Garrett discusses ‘Pops’ – priv…
Continue reading »These are my notes from the first day of the International Congress on Conservation Biology (ICCB) & the European Congress on Conservation Biology (ECCB) in Montpellier. I’ve took notes from some of the talks in 3 sessions about traditional knowledge, ‘Conservation 3.0′ and the citizen science posters. In the session on Traditional Knowledge and Conservation noteworthy … Continue reading Notes from ICCB/ECCB 2015 – Traditional ecological knowledge, Conservation 3.0 & citizen science
(From the Urban transformations website) We know a lot about cities, but there is much more that we need to know to meet future challenges effectively. My aim here is to sketch some research priorities from the perspective of the … Continue reading →
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I have just come back from the Lipari School on Computational Social Science which was focusing on Algorithms, Data, and Models for Social and Urban Systems. While there I gave a class entitled “GIS and Agent-based modeling” split over two parts. Below…
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I have just come back from the Lipari School on Computational Social Science which was focusing on Algorithms, Data, and Models for Social and Urban Systems. While there I gave a class entitled “GIS and Agent-based modeling” split over two parts. Below…
Continue reading »Ideal Cities, such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mile High Tower The Illinois (pictured here), and Le Corbusier’s City of Tomorrow have fallen out of fashion in recent years. But the rise of the smart city and the notion of the instrumented … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Clementine Cottineau initiated our work on paradoxical interpretations of urban scaling laws using the example of the French city system. The paper is now on the arXiv and you get it by clicking here or going direct to the arXiv. Scaling laws for … Continue reading →
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I was in Manchester a couple of weeks ago for a UKDS conference on applications of the Census 2011 datasets that have been made available, through the ONS, NOMIS, UKDS and other organisations/projects. The conference was to celebrate the outputs and projects that have happened thus far, now that the Census itself is four years … Continue reading UKDS Census Applications Conference →
Continue reading »Urban CA models use sets of rules that are applied to each cell in the geographical array to change the state of the cell usually according to attributes that exist in the neighbourhood of the cell in question. As there … Continue reading →
Continue reading »CityMetric |
Centre for Cities signs on as CityMetric’s data partner
CityMetric This is a big week for us here at CityMetric Towers. Break out the bunting; don the slightly too small paper hats – because, on Thursday 30 July, it’s our first birthday. What did you get us? The New Statesman launched CityMetric with the goal of … |
I spent a week in Fuzhou earlier in July, in China’s Fujian provice, presenting and attending a summer school and conference, respectively, at Fuzhou University. I’ve already blogged the conference itself (read it here) but during the week I got plenty of time, outside of the conference to get a feel for Fuzhou and this … Continue reading China: Fuzhou →
Continue reading »Roberto Murcio led our work on applying ideas of information theory across scales so that mutual information can be transmitted one way, rather than symmetrically. The paper has just appeared in PLOS One. And you can Download the PDF from … Continue reading →
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OpenStreetMap is still surprisingly incomplete when it comes to showing buildings for the London area, this is a real contrast to other places (e.g. Birmingham, New York City, Paris) when it comes to completeness of buildings, this is despite some good datasets (e.g Ordnance Survey OpenMap Local) including building outlines. It’s one reason why I … Continue reading OpenStreetMap: London Building Coverage →
Continue reading »The Independent |
Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social …
The Independent Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London last year revealed a particular peak around transfer-deadline day following Arsenal’s signing of Danny Welbeck, a Manchester United forward, in September … |
The Independent |
Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social …
The Independent Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the University College London last year revealed a particular peak around transfer-deadline day following Arsenal’s signing of Danny Welbeck, a Manchester United forward, in September. |
London Landmarks is a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of a sty […]
Continue reading »Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul … The Independent
Continue reading »Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social media? The Independent
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Continue reading »Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social media? The IndependentIt’s no secret that Twitter can be a hotbed of abuse and foul language. Studies have even been completed into the social network’s swearing …
Continue reading »Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social media? The IndependentEvidently, the UK is no exception when it comes to Twitter and bad language, with our research showing the Welsh are the worst offenders. In…
Continue reading »Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul-mouthed on social media? The IndependentIt’s no secret that Twitter can be a hotbed of abuse and foul language. Studies have even been completed into the social network’s swearing …
Continue reading »Tweet There is a three year fixed term Lectureship in Quantitative Health Geography available to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Ideal for a newly completed PhD student or postdoc. More details can be found here. Thanks Simon Professor Simon Kingham Professor of Geography and Director of the […]
Continue reading »Kings Cross Environment |
Kings Cross dashboard – can we bring to life the Knowledge Quarter’s …
Kings Cross Environment A couple of years ago the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the UCL Bartlett School, based on Tottenham Court Road produced this great City Dashboard that puts flesh on the bones of all the ‘smart city’ and ‘big data’ guff. Can we do one … |
This is the twentieth blog in this weekly series and after this there will be a summer break – a restart in October all being well! Trams have a long history in British cities and are now being re-invented for … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Praying in the digital age | Border – ITV News ITV News
Continue reading »Kings Cross dashboard – can we bring to life the Knowledge Quarter’s knowledge? Kings Cross EnvironmentA couple of years ago the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the UCL Bartlett School, based on Tottenham Court Road produced t…
Continue reading »Kings Cross dashboard – can we bring to life the Knowledge Quarter’s knowledge? Kings Cross EnvironmentA couple of years ago the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the UCL Bartlett School, based on Tottenham Court Road produced t…
Continue reading »Kings Cross dashboard – can we bring to life the Knowledge Quarter’s knowledge? Kings Cross EnvironmentA couple of years ago the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at the UCL Bartlett School, based on Tottenham Court Road produced t…
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Here’s a graphic I’ve made by taking a number of screenshots of DataShine Commute graphics, showing the different methods of travelling to work in the City of London, that is, the Square Mile area at the heart of London where hundreds of thousands and financial and other employees work. All the maps are to the … Continue reading The City of London Commute →
Continue reading »An interesting report by Anthony Townsend of Smart Cities fame about the rapid emergence of urban science and the flurry of centres that have grown up in the wake of these new ideas as well as the development of smart … Continue reading →
Continue reading »There are several applications that allow creating forms rapidly – such as Open Data Kit (ODK) or EpiCollect. Now, there is another offering from Esri, in the form of Survey123 app – which is explained in the video below. Survey123 is integrated into ArcGIS Online, so you need an ArcGIS account to use it (you … Continue reading Esri survey123 tool – rapid prototyping geographical citizen science tool
Anthony Beevor: Ardennes 1944Little AtomsHe has published four novels, and numerous works of non-fiction. His books include The Spanish Civil War; Inside the British Army; Crete — The Battle and the Resistance, which was awarded a Runciman Prize, and …
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Last week I was in China for the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Spatial Data Mining (ICSDM), travelling with the my centre director who was keynoting and giving a day’s teaching at the conference’s accompanying summer school. The conference was based in Fuzhou University, on the western edge of Fuzhou in Fujian Province, a city … Continue reading China: ICSDM Conference →
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