3D Map of London

An interesting visualisation of London’s Urban form:

London Urban Form 3D Map from Duncan Smith on Vimeo.

The visualisation of the density and function of the built-environment shows the dominance of the intensifying city-centre, corridors of commercial development and the smaller scale centres in Outer London.

The data comes from the Valuation Office and the Greater London Authority. For more info and a write up of the background to the viz, take a look at http://www.geographics.blogs.casa.ucl.ac.uk

From Buildings to Cities: Techniques for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Urban Form and Function

Duncan Smith here at CASA and Andrew Crooks, an assistant professor in the Department of Computational Social Science, at George Mason University have just finished a new working paper entitled ” From Buildings to Cities: Techniques for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Urban Form and Function .” Below is the abstract : The built environment is a significant factor in many urban processes, yet direct measures of built form are seldom used in geographical studies. Representation and analysis of urban form and function could provide new insights and improve the evidence base for research. So far progress has been slow due to limited data availability, computational demands, and a lack of methods to integrate built environment data with aggregate geographical analysis.