The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
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How measuring brainwaves could improve cities
CityMetric Until now, the tools we use to measure the way people move about have been purely quantitative – in effect, limited to counting footsteps. That’s led to an unquestioned assumption among those who make maps that the quickest route to our destination is … |
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Japan’s maglev train has broken its own world speed record twice in a week
CityMetric Earlier today, a super-fast maglev train in Japan set a new record for train speeds. According to its operator, Central Japan Railways, it travelled at 602 km/h for almost a whole 11 seconds during a test run. The seven-carriage train beat the 590 km/h … |
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Sorry, but this rotating apartment block isn’t the solution to segregated cities
CityMetric When space is at a premium, it becomes a premium product. You can see this effect at work in cities like London, where residential space is short, and flats and houses are treated like blocks of gold (except that they make a much better investment … |
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Why London should bid to be the next City of Culture
CityMetric London should bid to be Britain’s next European City of Culture. It would help to promote the capital’s creative and cultural sectors and create new jobs in these areas; it could revitalise the arts and cultural offer outside of Zone One reeling from … |
How measuring brainwaves could improve cities CityMetricHere’s a deceptively difficult question to answer: “Why do we go where we go?” Until now, the tools we use to measure the way people move about have been …
Continue reading »Tweet This is to let you know about two PhD opportunities. They are dual PhDs and will be awarded by the University of Liverpool (UK) and National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan). The successful applicant will spend at least one year (of a maximum total four years) in each institution. The funding for this programme […]
Continue reading »GIS software is used by many professionals to process spatial information, but the results are often poorly presented and the resulting map can be unattractive. GIS packages, such as QGIS, are increasingly including a broad range of cartographic styling and map design options, to present synthesised spatial data attractively, but it remains all too easy … Continue reading Book Review: GIS Cartography (2nd Ed) →
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Ankara’s mayor is being sued for building a giant robot
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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Slum tourism, Johnny Marr on modernism, and the never-ending bridge paintjob
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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General Election 2015: What do the manifestos promise for London?
CityMetric With less than a month to go until the general election on 7 May, England’s political parties have released their manifestos for us to dissect. But what do their manifestos say they’re going to do for Londoners? Let’s take a look at where party pledges … |
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What exactly is self-cleaning concrete, and how does it work?
CityMetric In recent months, a new building material that claims to both clean itself and filter pollutants out of the air around has been popping up on new buildings and infrastructure. It’s one of those advances in construction technology that does actually … |
Much research follows the current fashion. This leads me to develop an argument around two questions. How does ‘fashion’ come about? How should we respond to it? I begin by reflecting on my personal experience. My research career began in … Continue reading →
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Britain’s transport police want you to text them if you’re harassed on the tube
CityMetric Are you a Londoner? If so, there’s a one in 10 chance you’ve experienced unwanted sexual behaviour on the city’s buses, trains and Underground network. If you’re a woman, the likelihood is far higher. Transport networks across the world seem to be … |
I’ve created an Election 2015 Time Map which maps the estimated declaration times that the Press Association have published. It follows on from a similar map of the Scottish independence referendum. Each constituency is represented by a circle which is roughly in its centre (using a longest-interior-vertex centroid determined in QGIS). The area of the … Continue reading Election Time! →
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The GIS Research UK conferences (GISRUK) are the annual gathering of the GIScience research community in the UK. While I have missed the last two (including the current one in Leeds), I have contributed to two papers that are presented in the conference. The first, ‘Participatory mapping for transformation: multiple visual representation of foodscapes and environment … Continue reading GISRUK 2015 papers: participatory mapping in Nairobi and mobile apps for Earthquake and Fire
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The Venezuelan military unveiled a 1200 metre-long flag in Caracas to protest …
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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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 … |