Anil Bawa-Cavia:

Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), UCL

anil.quoteunquote@gmail.com

P L A C E R A N K
Remarks on pervasive cartography:

My PhD research focuses on complex spatial networks in the context of urban analysis. If we consider that the living city is composed of flows of people, vehicles and information, then dynamic networks provide powerful models for representing the evolution of urban space. The city then, not simply as a network of streets, but as a heterogenous assemblage of networks. Networks of individuals, telecommunications, commodities, buildings and infrastructure. My work looks at the relations between these diverse networks. Using hybrid quantitative methods taken from network science and spatial analysis, I examine the spatial logics, interactions and evolution of various urban networks.

My recent work includes examinations of how location-based social networking can tell us about the social life of cities and the mobility of urban populations, and how the structure of subway networks reveal spatial signatures which are characteristic of urban settlements.

You can find a copy of Anil's presentation as a pdf containing slides along with his speakers' notes here: http://www.urbagram.net/images/LostInSpace.pdf