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Lecture series on Urban Informatics at the Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST. Lecture 1 Gravity Models and Social Media This lecture introduces the main ideas behind the gravity model, and the model's recent application  to commuter & social media data Lecture 2 Psychological Maps Fifty Years Later It introduces what a psychological map is, and how crowd-sourcing methods changed the way such a map is captured Lecture 3 Aesthetic Capital and Social Media What is the aesthetic capital of a neighborhood? How could it  be captured using crowd-sourcing and social media? Lecture 4 Jacobs’s 4 conditions for urban life What is the life of great cities? And what is their death? The four essential conditions for urban life proposed by Jane Jacobs Material [slides] Finger On The Pulse Twitter ain't Without Frontiers Community Happiness & Twitter Talk of the City: Our Tweets... Material [slides] A Psychological Map of New York City Psychological Maps 2.0 The Image of the City Material [slides] Aesthetic Capital ... London A Pattern Language Happy City Material [slides] Operationalizing Jane Jacobs’s Measuring Urban Deprivation ... The Death and Life of Great ... Cities Lecture 5 Smelly Maps How can you capture the entire urban smellscape? Material [slides] Smelly Maps Urban Smellscapes