The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

World #1

for Architecture and the Built Environment. The Bartlett has also ranked #1 in the UK for the 12th year in a row.

QS World University Rankings (2026)

Discover the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

We bring together some of the brightest minds across multiple disciplines to explore and solve the challenges facing modern urban environments.

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Digital realisation of a city street view looking down from just above the roofs of the surrounding buildings. A single car is visible on the street. The image has been broken down into cubes, like 3-dimensional pixels.

Study with us

The expertise you will develop through our courses could open doors to exciting career opportunities in urban planning, city governance, engineering, data science and beyond.

Research

A London street view - rendered with the image formed of dust-like particles that are denser towards the centre of the image and less denser towards the edges. The street image contains a road junction and multiple shop fronts beneath red brick flats

Research

We use spatial analysis, geographic information systems, computer aided design technologies and custom tool-kits as basic forms of representation for space-time data.

People

Among our staff are physicists, planners, geographers, data scientists, architects, mathematicians and computer scientists.

About

CASA’s research is pushing boundaries to create better cities for everyone.

Publications

Publications

View a selection of CASA's publications and working papers

Conference

CUPUM 2025

CASA hosted the 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) from 23–27 June 2025 at UCL East, exploring the theme of ‘Cloud Cities’.

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News

UCL launches interactive map exploring London through the BBC Arena archive

The new digital resource uses UCL’s Memory Mapper to bring the BBC’s celebrated arts and culture archive to life for a new online audience.

27 Apr 2026

The Bartlett is ranked global #1 in 2026

The UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment is ranked #1 in the world for Architecture and Built Environment studies in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.

25 Mar 2026

UCL academic awarded NIHR funding to study how extreme weather could disrupt the UK's blood supply

A research team led by Dr Sarah Wise has received NIHR funding to model how heatwaves and flooding could affect the UK’s blood donation and supply network.

18 Feb 2026

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