Urban Infrastructure
Cities are changing and our place and economy are changing along with it. We have experts who apply the latest analytical techniques, data, and assessments to understand our urbanscapes and infrastructure. From understanding how future cities may evolve to knowing how our high streets and economy are changing, we have a variety of experts researching, teaching, and providing their expertise on relevant urban topics and infrastructure.
Case study
UCL Consultants help Nike promote new Nike+ FuelBand
UCL Geography researchers worked with Nike to produce a 'walkable London tube map' as part of Nike's promotion for their FuelBand personal movement tracker.
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Mat Disney
Professor of Remote Sensing, UCL Geography
Email: mathias.disney@ucl.ac.uk
Specific expertise: remote sensing; satellite and aircraft data; lidar and ground-based measurements and modelling; Physical geography and environmental geoscience; radiative transfer modelling
Ecology; Environmental management; remote sensing; forest struture and function; carbon cycle and climate
Forest ecosystems; Forest biodiversity; biomass and carbon; tree stucture and function.
Teaching: Remote sensing, methods, scientific data analysis, tools and modelling

Andrew Harris
Associate Professor in Geography and Urban Studies, UCL Geography
Email: andrew.harris@ucl.ac.uk
Specific expertise: gentrification and the global city to urban infrastructure, vertical urbanism and transport planning; his work on creative city policy-making has been used by organisations including the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, the British Urban Regeneration Association, Camden Council and the Cultural Development Centre of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Teaching: Urban Imaginations/Creative Cities/Urban Practices/London: Aspects of Change/MSc in Urban Studies Dissertation.

Paul Longley
Professor of Geographic Information Science, UCL Geography
Email: p.longley@ucl.ac.uk
Specific expertise: The development of neighbourhood geodemographic classifications, extending to historical classifications and characterisation of workplaces and wider population activity patterns; Modelling geodemographic and urban land use change using microsimulation and associated methods; Family name geographies and onomastics (the study of the history and origin of proper names, especially personal names); Retail geography and consumer behaviour; and the delivery of public services, specifically education, health and policing.
Teaching: Thinking Geographically