5 papers
Detecting Socio-Economic Impact of Cultural Investment Through Geo-Social Network Analysis
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +1
Taking advantage of nearly 4 million transition records for three years in London from a popular location-based social network service, Foursquare, we study how to track the impact…
Evaluating the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games policy on the regeneration of East London using spatio-temporal big data
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +1
For urban governments, introducing policies has long been adopted as a main approach to instigate regeneration processes, and to promote social mixing and vitality within the city.…
Cultural Investment and Urban Socio-Economic Development: A Geo-Social Network Approach
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +2
Being able to assess the impact of government-led investment onto socio-economic indicators in cities has long been an important target of urban planning. However, due to the lack…
The New Urban Success: How Culture Pays
Desislava Hristova, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia
Urban economists have put forward the idea that cities that are culturally interesting tend to attract "the creative class" and, as a result, end up being economically successful.…
Foursquare to The Rescue: Predicting Ambulance Calls Across Geographies
Anastasios Noulas, Colin Moffatt, Desislava Hristova +1
Understanding how ambulance incidents are spatially distributed can shed light to the epidemiological dynamics of geographic areas and inform healthcare policy design. Here we anal…