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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.

CASA 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.

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

View all Research Projects


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: