I will be presenting the paper, 'Following the Crowd: Spatial Layout and
Crowd Behaviour', at the Edra31 Conference on Thursday, 11 May 2000 at
approximately 9.00 am. The conference venue is the Cathedral Hill Hotel,
1101 Van ness Avenue at Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94109. The abstract
of the paper is below.
To find out more about the conference, go to the Environmental Design
Research Association website at:
http://www.telepath.com/edra/home.html
If anyone is attending the conference - or in the area - and would like to
arrange to get together, then please feel free to contact me. Before the
conference, I can be contacted via this email address to make arrangements
or, alternatively, my itinerary for the conference is listed below so I can
be contacted at the hotel once I am in San Francisco.
I apologise in advance if anyone has received duplicates of this message.
Best wishes
Mark David Major
ITINERARY FOR EDRA31 CONFERENCE, 10-14 MAY 2000, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Wednesday, 10 May
Leaving London Heathrow Terminal 3 11.00 am Virgin Atlantic (VS) Flight # 19
Arrives San Francisco International 1.50 pm
Monday, 15 May
Leaving San Francisco International 4.30 pm Virgin Atlantic (VS) Flight # 20
Arrives London Heathrow Terminal 3 10.30 am (May 16)
San Francisco-Days Inn Downtown/Civic Center Area
465 Grove Street
San Francisco, California, United States, 94102
(tel) 1 (415) 864-4040
Following the Crowd: Spatial Layout and Crowd Behaviour
Mark David Major, Alan Penn, Georgia Spiliopoulou, Natasa Spende, Maria
Doxa and Polly s.p. Fong
The paper describes a three-year study of the New Year's Eve celebrations
in central London. The objectives were: identify characteristics of crowd
movement and congregation, and how this might be related to spatial layout;
evaluate, in consultation with risk management experts, how this might
impact on public safety; and, help develop effective crowd management
measures in preparation for the Millennium New Year's Eve. The study
demonstrates how the observational techniques of space syntax have evolved
in recent years, due to the inherent problems of studying crowds, to enable
investigation of the effect, if any, of spatial layout on crowd behaviour.
A more balanced approach to data collection, incorporating both
quantitative and qualitative techniques, is described. The benefits and
limitations are discussed.
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Mark David Major
Lecturer, University College London
Secretariat, International Space Syntax Steering Committee
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