The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The Programmable City Project is holding a meeting on Data and the City in Maynooth from August 31- September 1st. You can get Rob Kitchin’s and Mike Batty’s papers from this blog but the programme is diverse and the Project … Continue reading →
Continue reading »How close are we to climate chaos? Very, says leading insurerLittle AtomsYou can tell we are in the run up to what may be the most significant global climate change talks in almost two decades, beginning in Paris in November: think tanks, NGOs, the bus…
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The Modernist Sandcastles of Coney Island
Little Atoms With over 170,000 views on Flickr, Calvin Seibert’s creations are admired the world. But what drives one man to spend 10 hours painstakingly building a brutalist sandcastle, only for it to be swept away by the sea or destroyed by drunks? We spoke to … |
The final day of the ICCB/ECCB 2015 (see my notes on citizen science sessions from Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3) included a symposoium that was organised by Aletta Bonn and members of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) to explore the wider context of citizen science. The symposium title was Science-Society Dialogue – … Continue reading Science-Society Dialogue – from Citizen Science to Co-Design (ICCB/ECCB 2015 – Day 4)
The third day of the ICCB/ECCB 2015 (here are notes from first and second days) was packed with sessions about citizen science and local knowledge throughout the day (so this post is very very long!). It started with two sessions on citizen science / public participation in science that included the following talks: Citizen science online: … Continue reading Notes from ICCB/ECCB 2015 (Day 3) – Citizen Science, engaging local knowledge and urban areas
The second day of the ICCB/ECCB 2015 started with a session that focused on the use and interpretation of citizen science data. The Symposium Citizen Science in Conservation Science: the new paths, from data collection to data interpretation was organised by Nick Isaac and included the following talks: Bias, information, signal and noise in citizen science data … Continue reading Notes from ICCB/ECCB 2015 (Day 2) – Citizen Science data quality
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 … |
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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 →
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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 →
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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 … |
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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. |
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Continue reading »Twitter’s swearing mapped: Which UK country is the most foul … 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 […]
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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 →
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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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