About Digital Urban

Digital Urban is written by Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, aimed at examining the latest techniques to visualise the city scape via digital media it covers a lot of the work going on at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.

Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith is, when not writing the blog, a Senior Research Fellow at CASA and team leader of the Virtual London modelling group.

Any thoughts or comments are always welcome and feel free to drop us a line via the email link on the sidebar.

Below is a list of papers and media coverage of the work to date. There are a few new papers coming soon which will be featured in the blog in the coming weeks/months. The rest of the papers should be able to be tracked down via a Google Search. If you cant find them just drop me a line and I can email you the work.

Papers

Smith A. (1997) Realism in Modelling the Built Environment on the World Wide Web", Habitat, 7, August, 17-18.

Smith, A. and Dodge, M. (1997) The World Wide Web - A Guide for the Planning Professional, Planning, 1213, 11th April, 16-17.

Smith, A., Dodge M., and Doyle, S. (1997) Urban Science: Virtual Cities on the World-Wide Web, GIS Europe, 6, No.10, 26-29.

Smith, A., Dodge, M., and Doyle, S. (1997) Visual Communication in Urban Planning & Urban Design, Working Paper 2, CASA, UCL.

Batty, M. Conroy, R., Hillier, B., Jiang, B., Desyllas, J., Mottram, C., Penn, A., Smith, A., and Turner, A. (1998) The Virtual Tate, Working Paper 2, CASA, UCL.

Smith, A. (1998) The Collaborative Virtual Design Studio, Habitat, 6, October, 38-40.

Batty, M., Dodge, M., Doyle, S., and Smith, A. (1998) Modelling Virtual Environments, in Geocomputation: A Primer (Eds P. Longley, S. Brooks, R. McDonnell, and B. Macmillan, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK), 139-161.

Dodge, M., Doyle, S., Smith, A., and Fleetwood S. (1998) Towards the Virtual City: VR & Internet GIS for Urban Planning, Paper presented at the Virtual Reality and Geographical Information Systems Workshop, 22nd May 1998, Birkbeck College, London.

Doyle, S., Dodge, M., and Smith, A. (1998) The Potential of Web Based Mapping and Virtual Reality Technologies for Modelling Urban Environments, Computers, Environments and Urban Systems, 22, No.2, 137 – 155.

Batty, M., Dodge, M. Jiang, B., and Smith, A. (1999) Geographical Information Systems and Urban Design, in Geographical Information and Planning (Eds J. Stillwell, S. Geertman, and S. Openshaw , Springer, Heidelberg, Germany), 43-65.

Smith, A. (1999) Teaching in Virtual Worlds: Innovation and Interaction in Design Education, Habitat, 7, Spring, 30-31.

Batty, M., Dodge, M., Jiang, B., and Smith, A. (2000) New Technologies for Urban Designers: The VENUE Project, Working Paper 21, CASA, UCL: final report of the VENUE project submitted to JISC, available on http://www.jtap.ac.uk/reports/htm/jtap-051.htm

Smith, A. (2000) Shared Architecture: Rapid-Modelling Techniques for Distribution via On-Line Multi User Environments, Arcadia, 19, 1.

Schroeder, R., Huxor, A., Smith, A. (2001) Activeworlds: Geography and Social Interaction in Virtual Reality, Futures, 33, 569-587.

Smith A. and Evans, S. (2001) Wired Regeneration: GIS in the Third Dimension, GIS Development, Vol.5, Issue 12, 5-6.

Batty, M., and Smith, A. (2002) Virtuality and Cities: Definitions, Geographies, Designs, in Virtual Reality in Geography (Eds) P. F. Fisher, and D. B. Unwin, Taylor and Francis, 270-291.

Smith A. (2002) Planning Through E-Government, in Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Public Service Review (Public Service Communications Agency), 208-211.

Smith A. and Evans, S. (2002) A Collaborative Three Dimensional Geographic Information System for London: Phase 1 Woodberry Down, in Innovations in GIS 9: Socio-economic Applications in Geographical Information Science (Eds. Kidner, D, Higgs G. White S.), 115-126.

Smith A. (2002) 30 Days in ActiveWorlds: Community, Design and Terrorism in a Virtual World, in The Social Life of Avatars, Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments (Ed) Ralph Shroeder, Springer, 77-89.

Evans, S., Smith, A., and Batty, M. (2003), Online Participation: Multimedia for Urban Regeneration in Woodberry Down, Hackney, in (Eds) Batty, M. & Longley, P., Advanced Spatial Analysis, ESRI Press, 369-390.

Smith A., and S. Evans (2003) Virtual Cities: From CAD to 3D GIS, in (Eds) Batty, M. & Longley, P., Advanced Spatial Analysis, ESRI Press, 41-60.

Hudson-Smith, A., Evans, S. and Batty, M. (2005) Virtual London: From CAD to 3D-GIS to Global Digital Cities, in M-L. Chiu (Ed) Insights of Digital Cities, Archdata CAAD Talks 4, Taipei, Taiwan, 75-92.

Hudson-Smith, A., Evans, S., Batty, M., and Batty, S. (2005) Community Participation in Urban Regeneration using Internet Technologies, in (Ed) Julian Hunt London’s Environment: Prospects for a Sustainable World City, Imperial College Press, London, 221-240.

Batty, M. and Hudson-Smith, A. (2005) Urban Simulacra: From Real to Virtual Cities, Back and Beyond, Architectural Design, 75 (6), 42-47.

Hudson-Smith, A., Evans, S., and Batty, M. (2005) Building the Virtual City: Public Participation Through e-Democracy, Knowledge Technology and Policy, 18, 62-85.

Batty, M. and Hudson-Smith, A. (2006) Imagining the Recursive City: Explorations in Urban Simulacra, in H. Miller (Ed) Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access, Springer, New York.

Hudson-Smith, A. (2007) The Visual City, in Dodge, M (Ed) Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications, Wiley, Forthcoming.

Hudson-Smith, A., Batty, M. And Milton, R. (2007) Iconic Simulations: Entries to a Recursive World in, Foth, M. (Ed.), Urban Informatics: Community Integration and Implementation. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Forthcoming.


Media Coverage

The Daily Telegraph, Weekend Section; ‘See London - Virtually Without Moving.’ 25th October 1997.

BBC Newsroom South East; ‘Wired Whitehall’, 27th October 1997.

The Times, Interface Section, ‘Walk and Talk in a 3D City.’ 26th November 1997.

BBC World Service/24 Hours News, ‘Virtual Cities’ 4th January 1998.

Oxygen FM - Sunday Afternoon Show ‘Collaborative Design/ Virtual Cities/ Avatars’ 3rd May 1998.

Zip FM - Patrick Yu's Breakfast show (Japan) ‘ Wired Whitehall/ Virtual Cities/ Avatars’ 5th May 1998.

Tokyo Today - Breakfast Show with John Kaeria ‘Avatars/ Multi User London’ 6^th May 1998.

The Independent on Sunday, Sunday Review, ‘Not in Arnos Anymore.’ 16th August 1998.

Sky Television Computer Channel, Blue Screen, ‘The Collaborative Virtual Design Studio - Towards a Virtual Planning System’, 29^th August 1998.

United Kingdom Press Association, ‘Your Chance to Shape a Virtual World’, 30^th November 1998.

United Kingdom Press Association, ‘Vandalism Strikes Virtual World, 9^th December’, 1998.

The Times Higher Education Supplement, ‘Month of Building Dangerously’, 3^rd January, 1999.

United Kingdom Press Association, ‘Virtual London Becomes a Reality’, 16^th July, 1999.

The Times Higher Education Supplement, ‘Builders Move into City of Dreams’, 4^th December 1999.

Design Graphics, ‘Virtual London’, Digital Publishing, Australia, 12^th December 1999.

GIS Professional, ‘Virtual London and the true scale of GIS’, Issue 1, December 2004

RIBA Journal, ‘Model Citizens’, January 2005.

Geographical, ‘Different Perspectives on Geography’, February 2005.

BBC World Service, Go Digital, ‘Virtual Worlds and Urban Planning’, 24^th April 2005.

BBC Radio London, Richard Elms Show, ‘Virtual London’, 11^th May 2005.

EDGE Video Game Culture Magazine, ‘Eye of Oblivion’, Issue 169, December 2006.

The Guardian, ‘Copyright Fight Sinks Virtual Planning, 4^th January 2007.

PC Pro Magazine, ‘Web 2.0 – Five Model Blogs’, Issue 148, February 2007.

3D World Magazine, ‘Rent Your Own City’, Issue 88, March 2007.

HiTec 3Sat/ZDF Television, ‘Artificial London’, 11^th March 2007.

BBC News, ‘Virtual London’, 21^st March 2007.

New Scientist, Ordnance Survey and Virtual London, 24^th August 2007.