The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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Just a quick one from me, but we’re delighted to report that the newly published fourth edition of Wiley’s popular GIS textbook Geographic Information Science and Systems features an example of some of our work in the Congo Basin. Here we are in full-colour, double-page glory: ? ?…
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We need a Right To Buy for private sector tenants, too
CityMetric The Conservatives fancy themselves as the party of property ownership, a theme that they hope will win them the General Election. They’ve made the revival of a property-owning democracy a cornerstone of today’s manifesto. The trouble is, their record … |
In 2011-2012, together with Richard Treves, I was awarded a Google Faculty Research Award, and we were lucky to work with Paolo Battino for about a year, exploring how to use Google Earth tours for educational aims. The details of the projects and some reports from the project are available on Richard’s blog, who was leading … Continue reading New paper: Footprints in the sky – using student track logs in Google Earth to enhance learning
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A French climber scaled the world’s tallest twisted tower using only chalk and …
CityMetric What did you do this Sunday? If you’re anything like us, you mostly mainlined leftover Easter chocolate and failed to go for that run. Meanwhile, in Dubai, a climber scaled the world’s tallest twisted building in just over an hour. Alain Robert, a … |
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Uber’s handing out free breathalyser tests and rides in Toronto
CityMetric The rate of drink-driving accidents in Canada triples after midnight. But an unlikely white knight has stepped in to help: rideshare company Uber, late of such inspired PR efforts as rides with “incredibly hot chicks” and getting banned in Frankfurt … |
Museums for the modern age DesignBuild Network
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Continue reading »And here is the actual talk, which contains an overview of approaches regarding Data, Big Data, and Big Spatial Data, in these fast pace days…
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Skyscraper highways, night cyclists and a sidewalk class action
CityMetric Next time you think your city’s investing in an insane and unnecessary piece of infrastructure, remember this: someone once tried to build a highway on top of some Manhattan skyscrapers. The gentleman in question, John K Henckman, wanted to built 26km … |
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4 things we learned from a map of London’s World War Two bombings
CityMetric Cleverly named “Bombsight”, it shows the locations of all the bombs dropped on London during the Blitz, which lasted from September 1940 to June 1941. Turns out the map isn’t actually new – it was created back in 2012, using old bomb census records … |
The Association of American Geographers conference is just around the corner – between 21 and 24 April, held in Chicago. I’ve already marked some sessions that I think worth noting (and was involved in the organisation of several sessions, too). Here is a list of interesting sessions, following suggestion to do so by David O’Sullivan and … Continue reading AAG sessions – Critical GIScience, GeoWeb and Citizen Science
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Google has patented a system to help driverless cars avoid cows
CityMetric Gradually, driverless cars seem to be overcoming their not-insignificant drawbacks. Last year, we found out that they still couldn’t avoid potholes or small animals, or drive in heavy rain. Yet in March, a driverless car drove from one side of the US … |
CityMetricA developer demolished a pub in Kilburn without council permissionCityMetricThis was the quandary faced by CLTX, a development company which recently bought a Kilburn pub, only to find that the council would not approve its plan to replace th…
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A growing number of young people don’t want to own their own home. Here’s why
CityMetric Home ownership. Compared to renting from a private landlord, it’s a no-brainer. Monthly payments are cheaper. As long as you can pay no one will kick you out. You can have pets, decorate, and put up political posters. And you get to keep it. For all … |
There are starting points that we can take from ‘systems thinking’ and theory development (‘evolvere theoria et intellectum’). Add ‘methods’ (including data – ‘Nullius in verba’) to this and this becomes the STM first step. S: define the system of … Continue reading →
Continue reading »It’s been a long time coming, but I’m really pleased to be able to share details about two PhDs at King’s for which I have funding: one to look at the growth and evolution of the UK’s landline network, and one … Continue reading →
Continue reading »We need data; but we need to encapsulate our understanding of cities in theories; and then we need to represent these theories in models. From ‘Nullius in verba’ to ‘Evolvere theoria et intellectum’ as a subsidiary motto: develop theory and … Continue reading →
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How Lee Kuan Yew transformed Singapore from small town into global financial …
CityMetric When I visited his office at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) the first thing he did was get out a black cap laced with wires and small plastic rings, and make me try it on. Image: author’s own. His PhD project, he says, began … |
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When love and maths go together!
onmanorama The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go together!
onmanorama The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go together!
onmanorama The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go together!
Newsx New Delhi: Mathematics can prove to be a crucial tool for understanding love by negotiating its complicated, often baffling, sometimes infuriating and always interesting mysteries, says maths expert Hannah Fry. In “The Mathematics of Love: Patterns … |
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When love and maths go together!
Newsx New Delhi: Mathematics can prove to be a crucial tool for understanding love by negotiating its complicated, often baffling, sometimes infuriating and always interesting mysteries, says maths expert Hannah Fry. In “The Mathematics of Love: Patterns … |
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When love and maths go collectively!
Bharat Press The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go collectively!
Bharat Press The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go together!
IBNLive The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go together!
Economic Times The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go together!
Economic Times The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go together!
Zee News The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
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When love and maths go together!
Zee News The choice of examples aside, though, all the results and tips in the book are general enough to apply to any gender and sexuality,” writes Fry, a complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. From … |
When love and maths go together! The Economic Times
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Continue reading »When love and maths go together! | Science & Environment News Zee NewsMathematics can prove to be a crucial tool for understanding love by negotiating its complicated, often baffling, sometimes infuriating and always interesting …
Continue reading »When love and maths go together! | Science & Environment News Zee NewsMathematics can prove to be a crucial tool for understanding love by negotiating its complicated, often baffling, sometimes infuriating and always interesting …
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Truth amid all those dots
Winnipeg Free Press He is a lecturer at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, an arm of University College London. On his blog, Urban Movements (urbanmovements.co.uk), he turns data into images that tell stories of, to use his words, “flows, behaviour and … |
At the request of Diana Sinton, the Executive Director of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), I gave the seminar talk about the linkage between Geographic Information Science and Citizen Science. A detailed description of the talk and the slides are available here. The webinar announcement is at http://ucgis.org/ucgis-webinars/geographic-information-citizen-science-reciprocal-opportunities. The webinar was recorded, so … Continue reading UCGIS webinar [Geographic information | Citizen] Science: reciprocal opportunities
Stations on the tube map with multiple lines are normally shown with a white circle (except where obscured by a disabled access blob) indicating connections where you can change lines there, while continuing on a single journey (and so not have to pay for two). However, there are a number of connections not shown on … Continue reading Out of Station Interchanges (OSIs) →
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So, we thought yesterday’s post on Google Maps fo […]
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There is considerable debate about “creative cities” and relatively few agent-based models that explore such ideas from the bottom up. To that end we have recently published a paper in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation entitled:…
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There is considerable debate about “creative cities” and relatively few agent-based models that explore such ideas from the bottom up. To that end we have recently published a paper in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation entitled:…
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