2013 has been quite a year for research – the Smart/Future Cities discussion has moved forward with a notable pace, new setups such as the Future Cities Catapult and the Smart London Report from the GLA are starting to drive the uptake. It has been a year of research around cities with multiple new grants, awards and PhD funding at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (home of digitalurban).
![UCL Quad in the Snow London 2050](https://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/QuadSnow-1-1024x576.jpg)
UCL Quad in the Snow London 2050