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We are pleased to announce that the Album – Place and Space is now available across all streaming formats or to purchase via Apple Music/Amazon. Simply search for Digital Urban…
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Continue reading »The interactive map of world city populations – https://luminocity3d.org/WorldCity/ – has been updated with the newest release of the UN World Urbanization Prospects (WUP), the leading dataset for understanding global urban dynamics. The new UN WUP 2025 release supersedes the 2018 version. It’s a major revision with updated demographic data a new harmonised methodology for … Continue reading World City Population Map Update with the New World Urbanization Prospects 2025
Continue reading »The latest upload to the Open Gauges Github is a Linear Gauge, using a timing belt to provide a full 1 metre range for the data visualisation. It uses a…
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Continue reading »Our MicroPython project turns a strip of NeoPixel LEDs into a “ship’s lamp” style wind speed gauge. It connects to an MQTT broker to receive real-time wind speed data and…
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Continue reading »While we have explored disasters in the past through agent-based models and other computational social science approaches, one area we have not explored is how one can use agent-based models to explore evacuations durring a wild fire event. This …
Continue reading »Increasing levels of cycling is a key part of the transport strategies of many global cities with the potential for significant health and sustainability benefits. Many cities however have fragmented and poor-quality cycle infrastructure that limits participation. London is currently expanding its cycling network to catch up with leading European cities in active travel. How … Continue reading Developing Spatial Indicators to Track Progress in Urban Cycling Networks: a Case Study of London Boroughs
Continue reading »Human mobility datasets are essential for investigating human behavior, mobility patterns, and traffic dynamics. In the past we have written about how one can use agent-based models to generate patterns of life trajectories datase…
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Continue reading »It’s an exciting time to be a Pebble fan. After years of being kept alive by the dedicated Rebble community, the Pebble is officially back. The new Pebble 2 Duo…
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Continue reading »We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book – Cities in the Metaverse: Spatial Computing, Digital Twins, Avatars, Economics and Digital Habitation on the New Frontier and…
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Continue reading »We love a good custom map for an event, and the London Winter Run has just one – and despite it pretending to be an
Continue reading »You’ve read the blog, maybe you’ve read the book, now come and hear from the creators. A very special evening of talks will take place
Continue reading »As part of the GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium at the 2026 AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California we have a call for papers for sessions entitled “Geosimulation and Its Emerging Directions with AI”Call for Papers:Simulating past, present, an…
Continue reading »Time capsules usually stay sealed, but I’m happy this one is open. Sleep Walk Sleep Talk is Suki Chan’s atmospheric film essay on post-crash London. Shot in 2009, it’s back online at FVU for the next month.Suki’s film combines beautiful images of Londo…
Continue reading »Time capsules usually stay sealed, but I’m happy this one is open. Sleep Walk Sleep Talk is Suki Chan’s atmospheric film essay on post-crash London. Shot in 2009, it’s back online at FVU for the next month.Suki’s film combines beautiful images of Londo…
Continue reading »Time capsules usually stay sealed, but I’m happy this one is open. Sleep Walk Sleep Talk is Suki Chan’s atmospheric film essay on post-crash London. Shot in 2009, it’s back online at FVU for the next month.Suki’s film combines beautiful images of Londo…
Continue reading »Time capsules usually stay sealed, but I’m happy this one is open. Sleep Walk Sleep Talk is Suki Chan’s atmospheric film essay on post-crash London. Shot in 2009, it’s back online at FVU for the next month.Suki’s film combines beautiful images of Londo…
Continue reading »Do migrants, and urban diversity, help seed new ideas? Tom, Ceren, Abi and I have written an overview of the field.It’s part of this excellent new book on migration and innovation, edited by Francesco Lissoni and Andrea Morrison, featuring many stellar…
Continue reading »At the security gate, I empty my pockets and put it all on a tray by the scanner. The guard gives me a long, suspicious stare. I try to stay expressionless. Suddenly, the guard’s face brightens. Are you that guy from the TV? he asks me. It’s happened a…
Continue reading »Ever thought we should be a book? Well, Modern London Maps, while unrelated to Mapping London, is probably quite close to the book that we
Continue reading »We are about to release ‘TIME,’ our fully 3D-printed mechanical clock, on Printables. This post provides insight into both its creation and development.
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Continue reading »In a previous post we talked about the potential of Generative AI for urban modeling, keeping with this theme at the 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Na Jiang, Boyu Wang and myself had a poster entitled&n…
Continue reading »From Adobe Flash through to Vibe Coding and back again to Physical Displays
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Continue reading »Many of London’s tube stations act as a focal point for the community they serve, and some times even give end up giving the area it’s name (Angel and Northwood Hills being two examples – one named after a pub/tea-house and one the winning entry in a competition). But some are just wrong and need […]
Continue reading »In the past we have written about how one can study urban shrinkage with a specific emphasis on Detroit from both an agent-based modeling perspective and also from analyzing newspapers through natural language processing Keeping with the theme of…
Continue reading »Back in 2023, I wrote a blog post over on DigitalUrban.org creating an app called Frame-IT. It turns out I was using ‘Vibe Coding’ and it’s changed the way I view the creation of almost everything…
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Continue reading »These are notes from the first day of the summer school at Université de Louvain (UCLouvain) on 7-11 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve, and funded by Circle-U university alliance. The course included teachers from the University of Amsterdam, Aarhus University, University Paris Cité, University of Vienna, and UCLouvain. Jaqui Goldin provided the first talk, exploring the … Continue reading PReCISE (Promoting Citizen Science Expertise) summer school – summary and lessons
Continue reading »In the current issue of Environment and Planning B, we (Boyu Wang, Na Jiang and myself) have a new editorial entitled “Generative AI and Urban Modeling”. The premise of this editorial is that Generative AI (GenAI) is impacting all aspects of …
Continue reading »I have just gotten back from attending the 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) in London and thought I would share the two papers we presented at the conference. The first paper was…
Continue reading »This is a slightly different post to normal, in the sense its not really about papers but my take on agent-based modeling, urban analytics and the growth of Artificial Intelligence impacting both. First up, while I was in Santa Fe last October for…
Continue reading »Notes from a seminar that was held on June 5, World Environment Day. It is part of the Circle U. Climate Day 2025. It was organised as a hybrid event. Caroline Michellier, Université catholique de Louvain led the organisation of the seminar, and it was integrated into a series of transdisciplinary seminars. It explored how citizen science can enrich … Continue reading Circle-U. UCLouvain – Citizen science: rethinking research with and for society
Continue reading »CAPS 2025, like the previous conferences of the Association for Advancing Participatory Science (AAPS, formerly the Citizen Science Association), was an opportunity to learn about the state of citizen science in the USA. The conference took place in Portland, Oregon, where 13 years ago the first conference of what will become the CSA took place. … Continue reading CAPS 2025 – uncertain or resiliant future for USA participatory science?
Continue reading »CAPS 2025, like the previous conferences of the Association for Advancing Participatory Science (AAPS, formerly the Citizen Science Association), was an opportunity to learn about the state of citizen science in the USA. The conference took place in Portland, Oregon, where 13 years ago the first conference of what will become the CSA took place. … Continue reading CAPS 2025 – uncertain or resiliant future for USA participatory science?
Continue reading »Convener: Liz Dowthwaite, University of Nottingham and Responsible AI UK Speakers: Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota and Zooniverse; Sarah Huebner, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Luigi Ceccaroni, Earthwatch Europe; Andrea Grover, University of Nebraska at Omaha AI is a lot of things – machine learning, NLP, computer vision, genAI and LLM but it is getting capabilities and impact. The … Continue reading CAPS25 – Responsible, ethical, and trustworthy use of AI in participatory sciences
Continue reading »Examples of partnerships – the issue of supporting fire that is done by bringing cultural fire and considering how to do a controlled burn, but it is also done in understanding the landscape and learning about the fire. In contrast, cultural burn was an intergenerational element and some of the safety aspects are blocking learning. … Continue reading CAPS25 – respectful and reciprocal callaboration with indigenous communities
Continue reading »This week it’s the Association for Advancing Participatory Science conference (27-30 May 2025). The opening keynote was given by iNaturalist Scott Loarie, the executive director of iNaturalist. Scott covered 5 lessons from iNat. It started as an MSc project, and has been going in for 17 years. It’s growing over time, about 8m observation. Seasonality … Continue reading CAPS25 conference – iNatuarlist keynote
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Continue reading »In the past we have explored how social media can be used to delineate earthquakes, study human-wildlife interactions, understand urban morphology, urban smells or locating wildfires among many other things. Keeping with …
Continue reading »Readers might of noticed that recently we have been exploring the use of street view images to explore cities or how we can utilize geosocial media to understand the form of function of cities, but one thing we have not explored is the role o…
Continue reading »Easter is approaching and its time for some eggs to find – 120 two-foot high ones are in London right now thanks to the Elephant
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