CASA's research is focused on the application of computer models, data visualisation techniques, innovative sensing technologies, mobile applications and urban theory linked to city systems.

These are explored via a wide range of methods from social physics, scaling to econometric and statistical models, augmented reality and hyper-local sensing through to crowd sourcing in our research.
Our focus is multidisciplinary, building simulation models, visualising 'big data', developing bespoke applications and creating new methods for the collection, analysis and communication of data.
Our output operates on a variety of scales from the hyper-local through to the scale of buildings up to the metro region, we are actively involved in extending these ideas to more global problems and challenges.
The frameworks that we use to guide our work depend on systems theory and the complexity sciences, as well as visualisation technologies, human computer interaction and innovations in network communications and Cloud/Grid based data analysis.
Our work is policy and application orientated in that many of our tools and models are central to informing systems ranging from urban planning through to museum, retail and heritage applications and onwards to social network understanding all with the focus on location, scale, space and place.
Our current projects
We have three distinct themes that all our projects are organised around: these are Smart Cities, Visualisation and Mapping, Urban Modelling and Simulation.
These themes cut across all our projects of which we have eleven that are currently active and explained in more detail in these web pages. These projects are concerned with measuring, sensing, analysing, modelling and predicting urban systems and their environments in terms of various sectors as well as holistically.
The focus in much of our work is on residential location, geodemographics, urban dynamics, urban morphology, housing markets, migration, spatial interaction, trade, density and city size as well as urban development.
Current project pages
- AEC Production Control Room
- AR in Healthcare Construction
- Africa Centre/I-Sense
- CeLSIUS
- Centre for Digital Citizens
- City of Women
- Colouring London
- HARMONY
- Hercules
- Heroes, Villains and History (Puzzle Room)
- Peak Urban
- Play Observatory
- RAIM
- SIMETRI
- Sustainable Digital Twins
- Urban Dynamics Lab
- Urban Heatwaves, Just Transitions
- realTRIPS
Completed projects
- View CASA projects going back 20 years
You can explore more of our research projects from the past twenty years that examine mapping, spatial analysis and complexity theory among others:
- 30 Days
- 3cixty
- 3D Cities Review
- ABM
- AgeCogCity: How does visual perception shape our cities?
- A Memory Map of the Jewish East End
- Applicable Urban Infomatics
- ARCADIA
- ANALOGIES
- Atlas
- BOC
- CAPABLE
- CAPSTONE
- CEDE
- Citations
- Colouring London
- CommunityAlert
- Complexity
- Creating and Exploring Digital Empathy
- Crowd-Sourced GNSS Data for Indoor Positioning
- Design
- Digital Egypt
- e-Society
- ENFOLDing
- ESPON
- EUNOIA
- Freight Traffic Control 2050
- GEMMA
- GENeSIS
- GeoDem
- Geodemographics for Resassurance Policing
- GeoVUE
- GIS Timeline
- GLA Economics CASE Award
- Hackney Building Exploratory Interactive
- INSIGHT
- Interaction Between Environments, Individuals and Mobile Technologies Through Wayfinding
- Inclusive and Healthy Mobility
- LEO
- London Air Pollution
- London Bridges
- Lost Labyrinth
- MECHANICITY
- Navigation
- NeISS
- NEXSUS
- Notting Hill
- NRFP Case Award
- Online Planning
- Playing the Archive
- PROPOLIS
- Resolution
- Retail
- Retailing, Town Centres and Business Investment
- REXPIRE
- SCALE
- SCATTER
- SECSE
- Shared Architecture
- SoL: The Whitechapel Initiative
- SPLINT
- Tales in the Park
- TALISMAN
- Terrain Modelling
- Think London KTP
- TOTeM
- Town Centres
- Town Centres 2
- Tyndall Project
- Virtual London
- Virtual London: Online Participation
- Visualising Spatial Inequalities
- Woodberry Down Regeneration