Time for a new smart cities narrative?
A growing chorus is calling for a more nuanced discussion of the narratives applied to smart cities…
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A growing chorus is calling for a more nuanced discussion of the narratives applied to smart cities…
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I’m presenting a short paper today at the Uncertainty Workshop at GIScience 2014 in Vienna, looking at cartographic methods of showing uncertainty in the new OAC 2011 geodemographic maps of the UK using textures and hatching to the quality of fit of areas to their defined “supergroup” geodemographic cluster. Mapnik was used – its compositing […]
Continue reading »The book cover of ‘Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century’Yesterday I was surprised when I searched some new journal articles through UCL library’s E-Journal service. Volume85, Number 5, 2014 …
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The book cover of ‘Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century’ |
Yesterday I was surprised when I searched some new journal articles through UCL library’s E-Journal service. Volume85, Number 5, 2014 of Town Planning Review that was published just some days ago includes a new paper of Professor Peter Hall. Unfortunately, it is still unable to look through the UCL service, ‘And one fine morning -’: reflections on a double centenary, the paper can arouse the glad to read his words as well as the grief losing a great urbanist who passed away on 30 July 2014.
I, had trained as an architectural designer, started to have an interest in urban studies after reading one of his tremendous books ‘Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century.’ The book carefully and attractively introduced the history of modern cities from the 19th century to the end of the 20th century and it unveiled hidden stories that had built on the characteristics of each city step by step. The most interesting point what I found in this book, his vision for the city is not heading for built forms, but alternative society as Ebenezer Howard pursued. And it was entirely enough to bring the young student to London.
After I have entered The Bartlett, UCL, I had the opportunity to audit his seminar class for masters’ students. Every week, students groups analysed urban problems of particular cities in the world and studied how urban policies have intervened in the problems. When I listened his comments in the class, I could imagine Kung-Fu masters who simply overwhelmed many fighters in the movie what I watched long years ago . He looked like he knew everything about cities, and he was thoroughly conversant with geographical, economic and social issues from European cities to Sydney, Singapore and Global South.
I have made the list of his recent books.
The Planning Imagination: Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning |
Good Cities,Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism
The book cover of ‘Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century’ |
Yesterday I was surprised when I searched some new journal articles through UCL library’s E-Journal service. Volume85, Number 5, 2014 of Town Planning Review that was published just some days ago includes a new paper of Professor Peter Hall. Unfortunately, it is still unable to look through the UCL service, ‘And one fine morning -’: reflections on a double centenary, the paper can arouse the glad to read his words as well as the grief losing a great urbanist who passed away on 30 July 2014.
I, had trained as an architectural designer, started to have an interest in urban studies after reading one of his tremendous books ‘Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century.’ The book carefully and attractively introduced the history of modern cities from the 19th century to the end of the 20th century and it unveiled hidden stories that had built on the characteristics of each city step by step. The most interesting point what I found in this book, his vision for the city is not heading for built forms, but alternative society as Ebenezer Howard pursued. And it was entirely enough to bring the young student to London.
After I have entered The Bartlett, UCL, I had the opportunity to audit his seminar class for masters’ students. Every week, students groups analysed urban problems of particular cities in the world and studied how urban policies have intervened in the problems. When I listened his comments in the class, I could imagine Kung-Fu masters who simply overwhelmed many fighters in the movie what I watched long years ago . He looked like he knew everything about cities, and he was thoroughly conversant with geographical, economic and social issues from European cities to Sydney, Singapore and Global South.
I have made the list of his recent books.
The Planning Imagination: Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning |
Good Cities,Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism
A final update to my Scottish Independence Referendum Data Map – the circle borders now show the turnout percentage, with the highest (>90%) as a solid green, the lowest showing as red. There is a weak (R^2 = 0.177) negative correlation between the Yes vote %, and the Turnout %, suggesting that the Yes campaign […]
Continue reading »Recent urban growth in the UK has further emphasised the role of cities in influencing economic prosperity, quality of life and sustainability. If we are to meet 21st century social and economic challenges then we need to plan and run our cities better. Data analysis can play a useful role in this task by helping…
Continue reading »The Beijing City Lab now contains nearly 50 papers on how the technologies that form a science of cities are being applied in China. There is an interesting paper by Wang Jingyuan on smart cities that is worth looking at. It is … Continue reading →
Continue reading » ModelTube is the name of the project to integrate agent based modelling into MapTube. Back at the end of last year I did a blog post on how to integrate AgentScript with Google Maps: http://www.geotalisman.org/2013/12/18/bugs-on-a-map/. Following on from this, I used the AgentScript agent based modelling framework, which is based on NetLogo, to visualise the tube …
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The Association of American Geographers is coordinating an effort to create an International Encyclopedia of Geography. Plans started in 2010, with an aim to see the 15 volumes project published in 2015 or 2016. Interestingly, this shows that publishers and scholars are still seeing the value in creating subject-specific encyclopedias. On the other hand, the weird […]
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Cholera dynamics when rainfall is introduced. |
Spatial spread of cholera over the course of a year. |
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“Cholera is an intestinal disease and is characterized by diarrhea and severe dehydration. While cholera has mainly been eliminated in regions that can provide clean water, adequate hygiene and proper sanitation; it remains a constant threat in many parts of Africa and Asia. Within this paper, we develop an agent-based model that explores the spread of cholera in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Poor sanitation and housing conditions contribute to frequent incidents of cholera outbreaks within this camp. We model the spread of cholera by explicitly representing the interaction between humans and their environment, and the spread of the epidemic using a Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered model. Results from the model show that the spread of cholera grows radially from contaminated water sources and seasonal rains can cause the emergence of cholera outbreaks. This modeling effort highlights the potential of agent-based modeling to explore the spread of cholera in a humanitarian context.”
Crooks, A.T. and Hailegiorgis, A.B. (2014), An Agent-based Modeling Approach Applied to the Spread of Cholera, Environmental Modelling and Software, 62: 164-177
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.08.027 (pdf)
Cholera transmission through the interaction of host and the environment |
Cholera dynamics when rainfall is introduced. |
Spatial spread of cholera over the course of a year. |
Study area |
“Cholera is an intestinal disease and is characterized by diarrhea and severe dehydration. While cholera has mainly been eliminated in regions that can provide clean water, adequate hygiene and proper sanitation; it remains a constant threat in many parts of Africa and Asia. Within this paper, we develop an agent-based model that explores the spread of cholera in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Poor sanitation and housing conditions contribute to frequent incidents of cholera outbreaks within this camp. We model the spread of cholera by explicitly representing the interaction between humans and their environment, and the spread of the epidemic using a Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered model. Results from the model show that the spread of cholera grows radially from contaminated water sources and seasonal rains can cause the emergence of cholera outbreaks. This modeling effort highlights the potential of agent-based modeling to explore the spread of cholera in a humanitarian context.”
Crooks, A.T. and Hailegiorgis, A.B. (2014), An Agent-based Modeling Approach Applied to the Spread of Cholera, Environmental Modelling and Software, 62: 164-177
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.08.027 (pdf)
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Twitter research reveals the sweariest locations
Castleford Media (blog) The prevalence of swearing on social media is so fascinating that researchers from University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) have dedicated a whole study towards it, focusing particularly on the use of Twitter in the … |
East Ayrshire swears by its social medialCumnock ChronicleScientists at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at UCL investigated patterns of Twitter profanity by monitoring tweets sent from a smartphone with geo-location switched on, from th…
Continue reading »As regular visitors will know, we have been developing our ability to collect and analyze social media. To this end we have just received word from Transactions in GIS that our paper entitled “Triangulating Social Multimedia Content for Event Localizat…
Continue reading »As regular visitors will know, we have been developing our ability to collect and analyze social media. To this end we have just received word from Transactions in GIS that our paper entitled “Triangulating Social Multimedia Content for Event Localizat…
Continue reading »As a learning exercise, I have attempted to “migrate” my #indyref map from OpenLayers 2.13.1 to OpenLayers 3.0.0. It seemed a good time to learn this, because the OpenLayers website now shows v3 as the default version for people to download and use. I use the term “migrate” in inverted commas, because, really, OpenLayers 3 […]
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North Ayrshire’s potty mouthed Twitter users in top 10
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London monitored all geo-located tweets sent from smartphones in the UK. The findings, taken from 28 August to 4 September, showed Redcar and Cleveland to be the … |
North Ayrshire’s potty mouthed Twitter users in top 10
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London monitored all geo-located tweets sent from smartphones in the UK. The findings, taken from 28 August to 4 September, showed Redcar and Cleveland to be the … |
Orkney tweeters are Britain’s politest
The Orcadian Orkney has the most polite Twitter users in the UK, according to a University College London report. A team from the college’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) monitored geo-located tweets sent from smartphones in the UK over the period … |
Blackpool GazetteThe Duke – September 17, 2014Blackpool GazetteFamed for its racecourse and steelworks, not to mention that my Aunty Eileen once caravanned there, it was shortlisted until scientists at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis put the d…
Continue reading »Tweet Learning from the 2011 Census: Sessions (1) through (4), Wed 27 August 2014 The following presentations were delivered at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2014, sessions ‘Learning from the 2011 Census’. Presentations are listed in session order. Learning from the 2011 Census (1): Data Delivery and Characteristics Justin Hayes and Rob Dymond-Green – […]
Continue reading »Scotland’s population is heavily skewed towards the central belt (Glasgow/Edinburgh) which will affect likely reporting times of the independence referendum in the early hours of Friday 19 September, this being dependent both on the overall numbers of votes cast in each of the 32 council areas, and the time taken to get ballot boxes from […]
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Fair to middling — that’s my ‘effin verdict on Welbeck and new England
The Sunday Times Rod Liddle AN INSTITUTION called the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis recently ran research into swearing on the social media site Twitter. With great pride I can reveal that this august institution found my old manor, Redcar and Cleveland, the … |
Fair to middling — that’s my ‘effin verdict on Welbeck and new England
The Sunday Times AN INSTITUTION called the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis recently ran research into swearing on the social media site Twitter. With great pride I can reveal that this august institution found my old manor, Redcar and Cleveland, the sweariest … |
There is a lot of talk about Scotland’s up and coming referendum for independence. If you are interested in what people are saying live on Twitter you can take a look at our GeoSocial Gauge website. What you will see is a map showing the location of tw…
Continue reading »There is a lot of talk about Scotland’s up and coming referendum for independence. If you are interested in what people are saying live on Twitter you can take a look at our GeoSocial Gauge website. What you will see is a map showing the location of tw…
Continue reading »The GuardianTweets most likely to contain swear words on MondayTimes of IndiaLONDON: Twitter users are more likely to swear in their posts on a Monday evening as they tweet about the pressures of their jobs, a new UK study has found. Researchers from t…
Continue reading »Nottingham PostTweets more likely to contain swear words on Monday!Times of IndiaLONDON: Twitter users are more likely to swear in their posts on a Monday evening as they tweet about the pressures of their jobs, a new UK study has found. Researchers fr…
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theEweekly Wrap: Net Neutrality protest, new Apple gear announced, and most …
theEword (blog) The findings made at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis are based on a week’s worth of research between August 28th and 4th September when they analysed over 1.3 million tweets. It found that the most sweary place in the UK was Redcar and … |
BGR IndiaTweets more likely to contain swear words on Monday!BGR IndiaResearchers from the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London monitored all geo-located tweets sent from smartphones in the UK. The study analysed mor…
Continue reading »BGR IndiaTweets more likely to contain swear words on Monday!BGR IndiaTwitter users are more likely to swear in their posts on a Monday evening as they tweet about the pressures of their jobs, a new UK study has found. Researchers from the Center for A…
Continue reading »Tweets more likely to contain swear words on Monday! BGR India
Continue reading »Oxford tweeters third politest in UKCherwell OnlineThe research was conducted by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London. CASA monitored 1.3 million geo-located tweets sent from smartphones in the UK between August …
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