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Law at the margin of the city

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  Law at the margins of the city - Birkbeck dated 26th March 2019 UN adequate housing - Urban and territorial  Products capable to attract , new electronic cloud with financial market. Investing managers. Creation of new instrument and also planning instrument and get back to the role of planning in local financial instrument to come and go to place without physically changing the ownership of the space. The future participation for the investment of the process in the rapid way. The production pf the urban poverty under finkncialised capitalism BY RAQUEL MROLNK from University of Sao Paulo School of architecture  Law in real estate development in the social spatial exclusion by Sarah Keenan - Senior Lectures in Law at Birkbeck, centre for research on Race and Law Priya S Gupta - Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, Visiting professor at Kinds and Law institute  In 1970 onwards, cities were head for the local growth onwards. Fear o...

Days and Nights

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qUCL Annual Lecture 2019 “The One Who Had Nothing to Lose”: Days and Nights in the Queer Work World by Professor Margot Canaday by Princeton University at UCL dated 14th March 2019 The tour of the book was explained and was presented in detailed about year 1960. The tour here includes service work, factory jobs, the gay leisure world (bars), sex work, and the “queer” professions.

Are Cities the Farms of the Future

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Farm Urban from Liverpool based Social Enterprise focusing on hydroponics and aquaponics to grow food in and within the cities. New technologies including the LED lighting and roof tops. Farm Urban co-founder Jens Thomas explained the journey starting from small scale experimental farms to a exiting multi-faceted company in the centre of Liverpool.

Education to Smart cities

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CASA Seminar  by Omid Shiraji on ‘Education to Smart cities’ dated 13th march 2019 The decision making process involves technology  from service delivery - run - business as usual - change and solutions - business management Bits under these bucket with roles and skills inside the vision and strategy and staff resource planning. What does a CIO do? Understand the online app and use it. Human social impact is massive and it was build overnight as the technology was there to identifying and validating the details for better followup and building assistance for migration and better evacuation. 

Archigram by Michael Webb

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  Bartlett Seminar by Michael Webb( English Architect) at the Bartlett School of Architecture International Lecture series 2018-19 supported by fletcher priest architects (london+koln+riga) Founder of Archigram group. He spoke about 2 books ‘Two Journeys ’ and Archigra,’s Archigram:The Book for the one-off screening go the Archigram Opera, created in 1972. Great architects under one roof

Future Transport in cities

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Prof Antony G.O. Yeh Future Transport in cities and GIS - the university of hong kong  organise by CASA UCL lunch hour lecture GIS research Centre - Learn the book - be proactive  Future smart cities - smart mobility and need off GIS to support the mobility. Sustainable cities - Ecology cities. In 1985 - from the computer -LAN. In hong kong it started with electric about the mobility leading to digital cities. Ubiquitous - Government, companies and people with AI and AV- Autonomous vehicle with 5G technology. Induction loop traffic sensors used to collect the data. Sensors in Smart surveillance. Smart lamp post- placed at Singapore. Angle difference method for vehicle navigation in multilevel road networks for automatic calibration  for lowest cost portable inclinometer. China Smart door plate 2016 is launched to check the route for the location. Conditional automation and full automation for the high degree of Automation of vehicles. Building information ...

Energy Innovators with Data Science optimisation

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UCL Energy Innovators dated 12th march 2019 at Central House by Dr Robyn  Lucas - head of Data science from Open Energi, London Flexibility market company and use of Data science at the core. Open Energy is managed distributed energy to radically reduce electrical cost and provide flexible capacity with 100 % renewable energy system. Dynamic, Demand connects, aggregates and optimised distributed energy costs. The timeline demands a great portfolio with sectors and its batteries. The visualisation platform in the new market , carbon accounting and optimisation. The exciting project being the UK first football stadium used with battery of energy innovators.  There is a demand of flexibility to access the process parameters by asset characteristics. Data quality, Data engineering, data analysis and others. Price Arbitrage- trains, wholesale and imbalance. Ancillary services.  Statistic and data analytics is required for energy trading. Asset and site inputs which maxim...

Planning Spatial Inequality

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UCL the Bartlett CASA- Friday Talk by Dr.Meirav Aharon Gutman, Faculty of Architecture and Town planning, Technion Topic: Social Topography: Learning and planning spatial inequality through 3D dynamic model. She provided a detail presentation on 3D visual models with help of Arc GIS and other geography software to pleasing the spatial inequality with 3D visual models. Based on the work of Gaston Bardet, a french city planner and Pierre Bourdie defined socialogy as Science of Social topography. She explained the development and ability to engage in the quantitative study of spatial analysis  and its implication for the issue of crime as an example. at the same time she also explained the ability for this study by means of experience of knowledge and moved it in 3D models.

Human Evolution and the Urban Paradox

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Lunch hour lecture - UnCivilised Genes book by Gustav Milne on Human Evolution and the urban Paradox. G.milne@ucl.ac.uk from UCL institute of Archaeology  located  at UCL Darwin  Lecture Theatre dated 12 March Child obesity - published by WHO in 2008 for the Early child development and NHS 2017 about Obesity, Physical activity and Diet in England. It is calculated 70% rise in the teenage diabetes in London. Obesity id not a disease , but a serious condition contributing to the 2/3 th of the global disease burden.  Costing the future - `cost of Treating these obesity related to disease which is additional 2.5 billion pounds to the NHS by Bhimjani in 2015 article. Social determinants of health which have social and economic conditions born into: can change by eg political interventions. Richmond and Tower Hamlets with about 4% unemployment with men life expectancy higher than female expectancy. There is a study of the bus drivers and conductors that i...

Plane and Simple: Architecture and the Seduction of Relief

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Alina Payne – Bartlett International Lecture Series Alina is the author of books on renaissance and modern architectural history with an emphasis on the relationships between architecture and interdisciplinary studies. Her most recent publications iclude: From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism (Yale, 2012) and L’architecture parmi les arts: Materiaux, transfers et travail artistique à la renaissance. (Hazan/Louv re, 2016).

Crowdsourced Geographic Information (CGI) and what are we doing about them

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CITIES are  the core of grand social by Dr.Peter Mooney of Maynooth University, Ireland at CASA Seminar dated 6th March 2019 Use of CGI - look at sustainability matrix, city functionality, heat loss from buildings, heat gain from building. Data informed urbanism and data driven urbanism - data in the cities . Gaps and silences in the data from Kitchin in 2018. Bias correction in data - crowdsources data, citizen generated Effective VGI use in the emergency management  VGI Research landscape - adding Machine learning ALGORITMNS.  State of the map 2019 - abstract submission by 30th April 2019.

Data science or Data Humanities ?

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Data science or Data Humanities ? At Alan Turing Institute dated 5th March 2019 Professor Melissa Terras- Prof of Digital Cultural heritage m.terras@ed.ac.uk People in Humanities in Data science where is a place on the table. Europeana -  The impact of E-Legal Deposit in the British Library. There is ethics that needs to be followed.  The project - Jeremy from UCL - helping the social system and introducing the international in UK. There is a wikipedia install in Transcribe Bentham which is used to train the data form the books into digital format. There in languages used in the software to work and create translation of the languages. Social data mining in Brexit which is been used. Text mining of the linkedln profile of 332 industry analyst