@ CUSP London

The Triumph of the City Research Seminars: 30-min weekly research talks on Future Cities from world-class speakers at the Centre for Urban Science And Progress (CUSP) London. Please subscribe to the Future of London group to hear about future talks by clicking on "Subscribe to this group" (if on mobile, you should click on the "desktop" option first).

June 26, 2020

Dynamic Urban Nodes Emotion Simulator Surayyn Selvan, IAAC
Investigating the quantification of citizen’s emotions for the design and planning of dynamic urban environments.

June 26, 2020

The New Normal: Embedding Social Distancing into Urban Models Mike Batty, UCL
If we have to embed social distancing into our mobility models, then this means that we need to couple our models across all scales so that we can deal with distancing, capacity and density at the finest scale which will have impacts at every scale at which we interact and travel. Slides are available.

June 16, 2020

Personality, Perception and Place. Jali Packer, University College London
We investigated the relationship between personality and urban ambiance of neighbourhoods in New York City, analysing a large-scale personality dataset and inferring urban ambiance from geo-referenced Flickr images using computerized text analysis.

June 9, 2020

Data Science for Arts and Culture. Vishal Kumar, University College London
A research project empirically capturing the impact of cultural infrastructure on the supply and demand of Airbnb listings in neighbourhoods in London.

May 26, 2020

Data Walking Project. David Hunter, Ravensbourne University London
Data Walking is a research project exploring the potential of walking to gather environmental data and through multiple walks and visualisations build a rich picture of that area.

May 19, 2020

Airnbn. Social Interactions or Business Transactions? Giovanni Quattrone, Middlesex University
Year after year, business transactions are overtaking social interactions, but the good news is that early adopters who tended to be more social when they joined tend to be still so nowadays. More on the research paper.
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May 12, 2020

Mapping interventions to address social factors related to health. Anant Jani, University of Oxford
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May 15, 2020

Developing the first Future Mobility Zones in the UK. Toby Thornton, Associate Director – Future Mobility, WSP
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