D: PUBLICATIONS, EVENTS & AWARDS - colouring-cities/manual GitHub Wiki

This section provides information on Colouring Cities Research Programme publications, events and awards:

Colouring Cities Papers, Conference papers and book chapters

• Remi Petitpierre, Isabella di Lenardo, Polly Hudson, Hendrik Herold, Katherine McDonough, Robert Hecht, Beatrice Vaienti, Christopher FleetJournal of Open Humanities Data, "A Layer of Late Victorian London: The Building Footprints from the 1:1,056 Ordnance Survey Map (1891-1896)" (accepted June 2026)

• Hawas, A., Hudson, P., Kim, M., Hatvani, L., Konieczny, M., Palaiologou, F., … Larimian, T. (2025). New approaches to comparing and visualising national energy rating data for buildings. Presented at the 11th Applied Energy Symposium: Low Carbon Cities & Urban Energy Systems (CUE2025), July 18-22, 2024, Kitakyushu, Japan. https://doi.org/10.46855/energy-proceedings-1189

• Teichmann, S., Hudson, P., Kim, M., Herold, H., and Hecht, R.: Uncertainty in Binned Building Construction Year Data: Comparing EPC and Crowdsourced Datasets, AGILE GIScience Ser., 7, 44, https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-7-44-2026, 2026.https://agile-giss.copernicus.org/articles/7/44/2026/

• Danke, T., Hecht, R., & Hutter, G. (2025). Reflecting on the practice of citizen science projects for cities – the case of ‘Colouring Dresden’ in Germany. Urban Research & Practice, 18(1), 142–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2024.2424298

• Hecht, Robert & Hudson, Polly & Gavaldà, Oriol & Hawas, Allan & Palaiologou, Falli & Herold, Hendrik & Larimian, Taimaz. (2025). Colouring Cities: A network of open platforms to improve the availability of data on the building stock for research, government and society. 10.5281/zenodo.15336081.

• Konstantinos Serraos, Athina Vlachou, Polly Hudson, George Panagiotopoulos, Epaminondas Tsigkas, Tom Russell, Falli Palaiologou, Vasiliki Charalampidou (2023), Colouring Athens: A crowdsourcing platform for the collection of data on Athens’ building stock. Innovative Urban Planning Approaches. Series Publications of the Urban Planning Research Lab NTUA, Vol (12). Konstantinos Serraos (ed.). Athens: Sakkoulas. Publications.

• Hecht, R; Danke,T; Hendrik, H; Hudson, P; Hudson; Munke, M & Rieche, T, Colouring Cities: A Citizen Science Platform for Knowledge Production on the Building Stock - Potentials for Urban and Architectural History. 'Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries' Third International Workshop, UHDL 2023, Munich, Germany, March 27-28, 2023, Revised Selected Papers.

• Hecht, Robert & Rieche, Theodor Mit einer Citizen-Science-Plattform Gebäudewissen kartieren, erforschen und vermitteln und dabei klimagerechte Architektur unterstützen. gis.Business, 1, 34–36. (2023) https://doi.org/10.26084/pgvc-tx74

• Roper, J; Hudson, P; Petersen, H; Pettit, C; Russell, T and Ng, M COLOURING_AUSTRALIA_A_PARTICIPATORY_OPEN_DATA_PLATFORM, 14th October 2022. Researchgate link here

• Ng, Matthew Kok Ming & Pettit, Christopher, 2021. "Digital Transformations in Planning: An Australian Context," SocArXiv 5k4sz, Center for Open Science.https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/5k4sz.html)

• Krayem, Alaa, Aram Yeretzian, Ghaleb Faour, and Sara Najem. ‘Machine Learning for Buildings’ Characterization and Power-Law Recovery of Urban Metrics.’ PLOS ONE 16, no. 1 (January 28, 2021): e0246096;

• Hudson, P. Urban Characterisation; Expanding Applications for and New Approaches to Building Attribute Data Capture The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice 9, nos 3–4 (2018): 306–3270;

• Roumpani, F; Hudson,P and Hudson-Smith, A. The Use of Historical Data in Rule-Based Modelling for Scenarios to Improve Resilience within the Building Stock The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice 9, nos 3–4 (2018): 328–345;

• Hudson, P; Dennett,A; Russell,T, and Smith, D. ‘Colouring London: A Crowdsourcing Platform for Geospatial Data Related to London’s Building Stock. Winner of best paper at GISRUK2019.

Citations

• Ng, Matthew Kok Ming & Pettit, Christopher, 2021. "Digital Transformations in Planning: An Australian Context," SocArXiv 5k4sz, Center for Open Science.https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/5k4sz.html);

• Steadman, Philip, Stephen Evans, Rob Liddiard, Daniel Godoy-Shimizu, Paul Ruyssevelt, Dominic Humphrey. ‘Building Stock Energy Modelling in the UK: The 3DStock Method and the London Building Stock Model.’ Buildings and Cities 1, no. 1 (May 20, 2020);

• Hecht, Robert, Hendrik Herold, Martin Behnisch, Mathias Jehling. ‘Mapping Long-Term Dynamics of Population and Dwellings Based on a Multi-Temporal Analysis of Urban Morphologies.’ ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 8, no. 1 (2019): 2;

• Pettit, Liu, Rennie, Goldenfein and Glakin: Understanding the disruptive technology ecosystem in Australian urban and housing contexts: a roadmap, 2018 https://www.researchgate.net/publication,/328492947_Understanding_the_disruptive_technology_ecosystem_in_Australian_urban_and_housing_contexts_A_roadmap

• Evans, Stephen, Rob Liddiard, and Philip Steadman. ‘3DStock: A New Kind of Three-Dimensional Model of the Building Stock of England and Wales, for Use in Energy Analysis.’ Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 44, no. 2 (2017).

Selected articles and weblinks

• BBC World Service - Business Daily, What is a digital twin city? 9th January 2024.

• Behind the case study how open capture of data will help improve buildings in line with the sdgs, Global Infrastructure Hub article, July 2023;

• Alan Turing Institute Top 10 Research Highlights 2022-23, Alan Turing Institute website and Annual Report 2022-23

• Global Infrastructure Hub. Annual Report 2021-22. Image and Caption. G20 publication, January 2023;

• Tagesspiegel Background Smart City & Verwaltung: Best Practice. Colouring London Author: Madeleine Londene. Tagesspiegel newspaper. Berlin, January 2023;

• Open minds how open source tools are broadening-horizons-data-science Alan Turing Institute, October 2022, London;

• Open data platforms enable access to high quality national building footprint data G20 Global Infrastructure Hub Infratech case study, October 2022;

• Harnessing the power of spatial data. Research pathway essay for Buildings and Cities, August 2022;

• Made at University College London. Spotify interview, August 2022;

• Case study for the Centre for Digital Built Britain, University of Cambridge, Gemini Principles - Colouring London_. January 2021;

• Open Data Institute case study for successful collaborative maintenance projects. Open Data Institute website, July, 2019.

• Mapping History. Article for The Bartlett Review, 2019.

• Using new technologies to analyse and forecast change in the building stock Hudson, P., Historic England. Conservation Bulletin 75 (March 16, 2016): 8–12.

Awards

• Colouring Britain: Winner of the UK's Royal Institute of Town Planning's Excellence in Digital Planning Practice Award 2023.'Comments: This project uses the latest technology to continuously engage with stakeholders to deliver an outstanding example of excellence in digital planning practice.'

• Colouring Dresden is a prize winner of the German Citizen Science competition "Auf die Plätze - Citizen Science in your City" | What the jury says about the project: "Everyday questions with a high social impact", "Convincing research setting, objectives and participatory involvement", "It promotes co-creative processes and involves stakeholders from different groups", "Impressive how many partner organisations and supporters are involved in the project", "High degree of open science & open source" and "A blueprint for other cities"

Selected Events

• AIUK 2024 Conference, Physical Exhibition Stand. March 19-20 2024, London

• Cambridge Science Festival 2024

• CCRP European Hub Launch. Online event. 19th January 2024

• AIUK 2023 Conference, Physical Exhibition Stand. March 2023, London

CCRP selected Conference Talks

• _International Smart Cities Network. Advisory project relating to international knowledge transfer on Smart City development and governance IOER with The Alan Turing Institute. Talk on Crowdsourcing for the German Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building. 28.3.2024.bISCN Online Advisory Programme #13: Co-Creating Cities with Citizens - Crowdsourcing Data and Maps https://www.smart-city-dialog.de/en/events/iscn-online-advisory-programme-co-creating-cities-citizens-crowdsourcing-data-and-maps

• Map Reader/Computer Vision and Digital Heritage Conference. Alan Turing Institute. June 2023, London.

• London Festival of Architecture - Virtual as Vilnius, University College. June 2023, London

• Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference. Talk. American University of Beirut. April 2023, Beirut.

• _AI UK 2023. Exhibitor. One of 50 UK projects selected by the Alan Turing Institute for the national annual showcase for AI and data science, March 2023, London.

• Colouring Bogotá launch event, Bogotá, August 2023

• 7th Smart Data Smart Cities & 17th 3D GeoInfo Joint International Conference, Sydney. UNSW/Turing joint seminar and paper presentation and Colouring Australia launch: October 2022, Sydney.

• Panagiotoulos G., Serraos K., Tsigkas E., Vlachou A., 2022. Colouring Athens - A Crowdsourcing Platform for the Collection of Data on Athens', 5th International Conference on “Changing Cities”. Making our Cities Resilient in times of Pandemics, 20-25 June 2022 Corfu Island, Greece. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 'URBAN E-PLANNING'. Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal & International Journal of E-Planning Research. Lisbon, 27 - 29 March 2023 Abstract

• The Medical Society of London, 2022 lecture series. Talk. 2022, London.

• The Association for Geographic Information, Annual Conference 2021, Scotland. Talk, 2020;

• 3D Geo Conference September 2020, London. Keynote, 2020;

• Networked Complexity – COVID 19. American University of Beirut. Talk and panel, 2019;

• Open Data Institute lunchtime lecture, Colouring London. Youtube talk, 2019;

• Land Use Symposium ILUS, Paris. Talk 2019;

• Royal Town Planning Institute Annual Summit, London. Talk and panel, 2017;

• International Land Use Symposium (ILUS), Dresden. Talk and panel, 2017;

• Historic Urban Landscape Forum Conference, UCL, London. Talk and panel, 2017.