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Category Archives: Flows, Fluxes
BitCity
Tweet BitCity tomorrow (3rd November) at Columbia (NYC). Click left for my presentation on Cities as Flow Systems. Talks about CASA’s Oyster Card, Bikes, Networks, and LUTI model projects and how they can be used to look at fractured networks. … Continue reading
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Ravenstein’s Flow Map
Tweet Amazing what you discover when you search the web. Couldn’t find Ravenstein’s 1888 map that Waldo Tobler sent me as a detailed scan. Its framed in my room at UCL and somewhere on the web I know. What I … Continue reading
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Ranks of Flows: Network Scaling
Tweet The TfL Oyster Card Tube and Train flow volumes over 24 hrs at 666 (don’t worry about the number) hubs reveal classic diurnal peaks but the profiles are far from power laws. If anything, they are lognormal. Watch the Vimeo … Continue reading
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Flux by Broken Cities
Tweet Bit of an experiment really as it is the weekend. Thought I would embed some background music into the website and the album Flux from the indie group Broken Cities reflects the themes of a Science of Cities. And … Continue reading
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The Heartbeat of the City
Tweet Inspired by Victor Gruen’s heart of the city posted here a little while ago, Jon Reade’s 24 hour movie of traffic on London’s railways (tube+overground) moves us a little closer to Leonardo’s analogy of the city as body. More biology … Continue reading
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