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Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Chrysoulakis, N., Ludlow, D., Mitraka, Z., Somarakis, G., Khan, Z., Lauwaet, D., …Holt Andersen, B. (2023, April). Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project. Presented at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria

A major challenge for the urban community is the exploitation of Earth Observation intelligence in managing in the multidimensional nature of urban sustainability towards enhancing urban resilience, particularly in relation to the challenges of clima... Read More about Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project.

Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hasham, K., Soomro, K., & Ludlow, D. (2017, December). Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities. Paper presented at The 4th International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications., Texas, USA

Effective communication with citizens is an important goal of smart cities. To this end the digital age offers many mechanisms to not only enable timely communication, but also bilateral communication. Mechanisms such as blog posts and online press r... Read More about Tracking the virality of news in Smart Cities.

Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Garzon, A., Palacios, M., Pecci, J., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2014, December). Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities. Paper presented at International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications in conjunction with 7th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), London, UK

Data collected through remote sensing (for instance geo-satellite) provides necessary stimulus for developing smart solutions for climate change & public health, energy efficiency and land monitoring in an urban environment. The velocity, variety, vo... Read More about Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities.

Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Peter-Anders, J., Loibl, W., Züger, J., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2014, May). Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project. Paper presented at REAL CORP 2014, Vienna

The paper discusses experiences of development and implementation of public motion explorer (PME) tool as part of the EU FP7 project urbanAPI. This tool has been applied to three EU cities with the objective to investigate population distribution dyn... Read More about Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project.

UrbanNexus at the crossroads (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., Graham, J., & Blanes, N. (2013, July). UrbanNexus at the crossroads. Paper presented at Planning for resilient cities and regions, Joint AESOP/ASCP Congress, University College, Dublin, 15-19 July 2013, University College, Dublin

Domain-specific languages for agile urban policy modelling (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Kramer, M., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2013, May). Domain-specific languages for agile urban policy modelling. Paper presented at ECMS, 27th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Alesund Norway, 27-30 May 2013, Alesund, Norway

Smart cities and urban governance: The urbanAPI project: Bologna case study (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., Mauri, M., & Caranti, C. (2013, May). Smart cities and urban governance: The urbanAPI project: Bologna case study. Paper presented at REAL CORP 2013 - 18th Internation conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society, Rome, 20-23 May, 2013, Rome, Italy

UrbanAPI development progress (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2013, March). UrbanAPI development progress. Presented at Transforming Government Workshop, (tGov2013), Brunel University, London, 22-23 March 2013, Brunel University, London

Bratislava regions in motion: Breaking the path (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Rauhut, D. (2012, August). Bratislava regions in motion: Breaking the path. Paper presented at 52nd European Congress of the RSAI and 4th Central European Regional Science Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, 21-25 August, 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia

Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2012, July). Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities. Paper presented at 26th Annual AESOP Congress, Ankara, Turkey

Citizens’ participation in urban planning and policy-making develops the traditional top-down governance model via promotion of bottom-up approaches to policy development and decision-making. This evolution drives social innovation in support of pl... Read More about Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities.

An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., McClatchey, R., & Anjum, A. (2011, December). An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing. Paper presented at ITAAC 2011: International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds in conjunction with the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), Melbourne, Australia

With the existence of new methodologies and technologies it has now become possible to manage large amounts of environmental sensing data and apply new integrated computing models to acquire information intelligence. This paper advocates the applicat... Read More about An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing.

SeGI – services of general interest - policy and governance (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D. (2011, September). SeGI – services of general interest - policy and governance. Presented at ESPON-INTERSTAT Conference, London, 30th September 2011: Planning for Growth - What can we learn from Europe?, London, UK

Integrated urban management: “Win-win” solutions (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2011, September). Integrated urban management: “Win-win” solutions. Presented at 2011 UK / Ireland Planning Research Conference: Planning Resilient Communities in Challenging Times,, Birmingham, UK

Analysis of urban challenges, from a sustainable development perspective, emphasise the interconnected nature of the challenges, reflecting the ecosystems perspective on the city. Key political concerns with climate change greenhouse gas emissions, e... Read More about Integrated urban management: “Win-win” solutions.

Harmonizing geospaatial data at the local level for global benefit: HUMBOLDT Urban Atlas – a case study (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Giger, C., Althoff, J., & Ludlow, D. (2011, June). Harmonizing geospaatial data at the local level for global benefit: HUMBOLDT Urban Atlas – a case study. Poster presented at INSPIRE Conference 2011, Edinburgh, UK

One of the major requirements for the realization of an integrated environmental monitoring system is the availability of tools and services to harmonize and integrate environmental spatial data, originating from various governmental and other agenci... Read More about Harmonizing geospaatial data at the local level for global benefit: HUMBOLDT Urban Atlas – a case study.

GMES and INSPIRE: Harmonising cross-thematic environmental data for integrated intelligence (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2011, March). GMES and INSPIRE: Harmonising cross-thematic environmental data for integrated intelligence. Poster presented at 2nd GMES Operational Workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria

GMES and INSPIRE are mutually beneficial and require close collaboration between communities from both domains to mitigate and adapt to environmental and security challenges. For example, extension of GMES services into the cross-cutting domains of S... Read More about GMES and INSPIRE: Harmonising cross-thematic environmental data for integrated intelligence.

Future orientation of cities project (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D. (2010, December). Future orientation of cities project. Paper presented at Evidence and Opportunities for Strategic Spatial Planning in the UK, Manchester University, 2-3 December, 2010, Manchester University, Manchester, UK

Integrated urban management (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D. (2009, July). Integrated urban management. Paper presented at LUMASEC, Land Use Management for Sustainable European Cities, Bristol, UK, July 2009, Bristol, UK