Thinking of applying for our MRes course?

28 May 2013

If you'd like to join CASA in September 2013 on our MRes Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course, make sure your completed application is submitted before the deadline of 2nd August 2013.

UCL Pop-Up Shop features CASA products

28 May 2013

UCL opened up their first "pop-up" shop, called Launchbox, on Friday 24th May in Box Park Shoreditch. Launchbox showcases the hottest new designs emerging from UCL's creative scene: from etchings, wallhangings and keyrings from artists at the Slade School of Fine Art to posters from UCL CASA, amongst others. 

Life in the City is Essentially One Giant Math Problem

Mike Batty here at UCL, Geoff West, Luis Bettencourt and Jose Lobo at the Santa Fe Institute, and Steve Koonin at the Center for Urban Science and Progress at NYU are quoted in ...

Something Else for The Weekend

CASA will be bringing its unique expertise, a series of workshops, and a range of exhibits to "Something Else for the Weekend" on Saturday May 11th, a reading-themed weekend of activities connecting members ...

UCL Museums Dashboard launched

The UCL Museums Dashboard is an adaption of the CityDashboard website, which visualises near-live, rapidly updating and web-accessible data for eight UK cities. The data are displayed on a grid, with colour used ...

CASA at the U3A/UCL lecture day

Friday saw the first UCL/U3A lecture day, hosted at UCL for U3A delegates. The University of the Third Age (U3A) is a volunteer-run organisation which promotes learning for retirees and people no ...

And the winner of the Sinesio Alves Junior prize at GISRUK 2013 is....

The CASA prize for the "Best Paper in Spatial Analysis" in memory of Sinesio Alves Junior at the GISRUK 2013 conference was awarded to Daniel Olner and his co-authors Alison Heppenstall and Gordon ...

Who will win the Sinesio Alves Junior Prize at GISRUK 2013?

CASA is looking forward to reading the GISRUK 2013 papers so we can select a winner for our 'Best Paper in Spatial Analysis' award in memory of our much missed friend and colleague ...

CASA @ TEDx

CASA researchers Steven Gray and Panos Mavros ran two well attended workshops at the TEDx LSE event on Saturday 9th March.  Over 40 people heard Steven present Big Data and Social Networks and ...

CASA-based art startup USEUM reaches first million

USEUM, the latest innovation out of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and Digital Humanities at UCL, celebrated its official launch on Monday at UCL’s prestigious Wilkins Haldane Room with ...

Smart Cities, Network Effects, and the Next Generation of Planning

During Mike Batty's recent trip to the US he was interviewed by Matt Ball from the Informed Infrastructure website about Smart Cities, Network Effects and the Next Generation of Planning.  Read what ...

CASA part of Mayor's ‘Smart London’ board

The Mayor of London has announced a top line-up of experts including leading academics, businesses and entrepreneurs to develop a ‘Smart London’ vision that puts technological innovation at the heart of making the ...

CASA's Sung Hyun Jang's scoops runner up research poster prize

Sung Hyun Jang's 'Augmented Reality' poster (above) attracted a prize in the recent Graduate School Research Poster Competition. 

Short Course: GIS for Health Sciences

TALISMAN, a CASA / Leeds collaborative node of the National Centre for Research Methods funded through the ESRC is running the following course at UCL in April:

Meet us at The Bartlett Postgraduate Open Day - 27th March 2013

If you're interested in our MRes Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation or want to find out more about studying for an MPhil/PhD at CASA, make a date to meet us at ...

Another CASA PhD: Congratulations Fabian Neuhaus

CASA's latest graduate, Fabian Neuhaus, successfully defended his PhD yesterday.  His thesis, entitled "Urban Rhythms: Habitus and Emergent Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of the City", was supervised by Professor Michael Batty (left) and Dr ...

CASA’s Prof Michael Batty awarded the “Nobel prize” of geography

Chair of CASA and Fellow of the British Academy, Prof Michael Batty, has been awarded the prestigious Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, the highest award that can be gained ...

The 14th Annual Dangermond Lecture at UCSB

Mike Batty presented the 14th lecture in the series endowed by Jack and Laura Dangermond, the President and Vice President and Founders of the world’s largest GIS software company ESRI, makers of ...

Dr Hannah Fry wins Provost's Public Engager of the Year award

CASA'S Dr Hannah Fry (Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities) was named the winner of this year's Provost's Public Engager of the Year award on Wednesday 30th January.

The awards ...

Social Physics in the Big City

Martin Austwick's recent Lunch Hour Lecture "Social Physics in the Big City" received a great review from Clare Ryan in the new UCL Events Blog.

London: City Life Captured in a Digital Portrait

Data collected from CASA's Steven Gray was used to create this Digital City Portrait by artist Brendan Dawes. 

CASA Image Wins UCL Research Images Competition

An image depicting London's multilingual Tweets produced by James Cheshire (UCL CASA) and Ed Manley (UCL CEGE) has been picked from over 350 entries to win UCL's prestigious "Research Images as ...

Employment Location in Cities and Regions

CASA's Professor Sir Alan Wilson is co-editor of a newly published book, 'Employment Locations in Cities and Regions: Models and Applications', published by Springer. The focus of this book is the modelling ...

"A Framework for Geodesign" by Carl Steinitz

Tomorrow evening Professor Carl Steinitz will be launching his new book here at CASA.  A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design, published by ESRI Press, presents the key concepts, history, and methodology ...

CASA Working Paper from 1998 amongst Top 50 Downloads for 2011

The UCL Discovery download statistics for 2011 show that CASA Working Paper number 3 is amongst the top 50 most downloaded publications for the year.