Alison Penn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1198255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Penn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Penn |
| SIGNATURE | PENN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3793-8134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Natural movement
Data-driven urban management
Big data analytics and artificial intelligence, paired with blockchain technology, the Internet of Things, and other emerging technologies, are poised to revolutionise urban management. With massive amounts of data collected from citizens, devices, and traditional sources such as routine and well-established censuses, urban areas across the world have - for the first time in history - the opportunity to monitor and manage their urban infrastructu…
Spatial information models as the backbone of smart infrastructure
Climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge to our life on this planet, with energy and the scarcity of resources being major factors in shaping the landscape of decision-making in industry and public policy.In the UK, the building stock comes first, and transportation comes second in being accounted for carbon emissions.Hence, the efficiency of buildings and the urban network that ties them together needs to be treated as top priority in or…
Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action
Socioeconomic Consequences of Mercury Use and Pollution
In the past, human activities often resulted in mercury releases to the biosphere with little consideration of undesirable consequences for the health of humans and wildlife. This paper outlines the pathways through which humans and wildlife are exposed to mercury. Fish consumption is the major route of exposure to methylmercury. Humans can also receive toxic doses of mercury through inhalation of elevated concentrations of gaseous elemental merc…
Jewish Immigrant Settlement Patterns in Manchester and Leeds 1881
This paper examines the 19th century Jewish immigrant quarters of Manchester and Leeds. It uses original census data to look at the entire population of the two areas of initial settlement. Analysis of family and kin structure, occupations of head of household, country of origin and length of time in the country as well as analysis of the settlement patterns at the street level are combined to examine the phenomenon of immigrant clustering. It is…
Space Syntax And Spatial Cognition
Space syntax research has found that spatial configuration alone explains a substantial proportion of the variance between aggregate human movement rates in different locations in both urban and building interior space. Although it seems possible to explain how people move on the basis of these analyses, the question of why they move this way has always seemed problematic because the analysis contains no explicit representations of either motivat…
From Isovists to Visibility Graphs
An isovist, or viewshed, is the area in a spatial environment directly visible from a location within the space. Here we show how a set of isovists can be used to generate a graph of mutual visibility between locations. We demonstrate that this graph can also be constructed without reference to isovists and that we are in fact invoking the more general concept of a visibility graph. Using the visibility graph, we can extend both isovist and curre…
Configurational Modelling of Urban Movement Networks
Transportation research has usually seen road networks as inert systems to be navigated and eventually filled up by traffic. A new type of ‘configurational’ road network modelling, coupled to detailed studies of vehicular and pedestrian flows, has shown that road networks have a much more constructive role. They strongly influence the pattern of flows through quantifiable properties of the network ‘configuration’. Recent research results are pres…
Natural movement
Existing theories relating patterns of pedestrian and vehicular movement to urban form characterise the problem in terms of flows to and from ‘attractor’ land uses. This paper contains evidence in support of a new ‘configurational’ paradigm in which a primary property of the form of the urban grid is to privilege certain spaces over others for through movement. In this way it is suggested that the configuration of the urban grid itself is the mai…
Visible Colleges
The Argument Visible colleges, in contrast to the “invisible colleges” familiar to historians of science, are the collective places of science, the places where the “creation of phenomena” and theoretical speculation proceed side by side. To understand their spatial form, we must understand first how buildings can structure space to both conserve and generate social forms, depending on how they relate structure in space to randomness. Randomness …
Toward a New Generation of Systems Models in Political Science
Data-driven urban management
Big data analytics and artificial intelligence, paired with blockchain technology, the Internet of Things, and other emerging technologies, are poised to revolutionise urban management. With massive amounts of data collected from citizens, devices, and traditional sources such as routine and well-established censuses, urban areas across the world have - for the first time in history - the opportunity to monitor and manage their urban infrastructu…
Jewish Immigrant Settlement Patterns in Manchester and Leeds 1881
This paper examines the 19th century Jewish immigrant quarters of Manchester and Leeds. It uses original census data to look at the entire population of the two areas of initial settlement. Analysis of family and kin structure, occupations of head of household, country of origin and length of time in the country as well as analysis of the settlement patterns at the street level are combined to examine the phenomenon of immigrant clustering. It is…
Socioeconomic Consequences of Mercury Use and Pollution
In the past, human activities often resulted in mercury releases to the biosphere with little consideration of undesirable consequences for the health of humans and wildlife. This paper outlines the pathways through which humans and wildlife are exposed to mercury. Fish consumption is the major route of exposure to methylmercury. Humans can also receive toxic doses of mercury through inhalation of elevated concentrations of gaseous elemental merc…
Toward a New Generation of Systems Models in Political Science
Toward a New Generation of Systems Models in Political Science
Visible Colleges
The Argument Visible colleges, in contrast to the “invisible colleges” familiar to historians of science, are the collective places of science, the places where the “creation of phenomena” and theoretical speculation proceed side by side. To understand their spatial form, we must understand first how buildings can structure space to both conserve and generate social forms, depending on how they relate structure in space to randomness. Randomness …
Natural movement
Existing theories relating patterns of pedestrian and vehicular movement to urban form characterise the problem in terms of flows to and from ‘attractor’ land uses. This paper contains evidence in support of a new ‘configurational’ paradigm in which a primary property of the form of the urban grid is to privilege certain spaces over others for through movement. In this way it is suggested that the configuration of the urban grid itself is the mai…
Configurational Modelling of Urban Movement Networks
Transportation research has usually seen road networks as inert systems to be navigated and eventually filled up by traffic. A new type of ‘configurational’ road network modelling, coupled to detailed studies of vehicular and pedestrian flows, has shown that road networks have a much more constructive role. They strongly influence the pattern of flows through quantifiable properties of the network ‘configuration’. Recent research results are pres…
From Isovists to Visibility Graphs
An isovist, or viewshed, is the area in a spatial environment directly visible from a location within the space. Here we show how a set of isovists can be used to generate a graph of mutual visibility between locations. We demonstrate that this graph can also be constructed without reference to isovists and that we are in fact invoking the more general concept of a visibility graph. Using the visibility graph, we can extend both isovist and curre…
Space Syntax And Spatial Cognition
Space syntax research has found that spatial configuration alone explains a substantial proportion of the variance between aggregate human movement rates in different locations in both urban and building interior space. Although it seems possible to explain how people move on the basis of these analyses, the question of why they move this way has always seemed problematic because the analysis contains no explicit representations of either motivat…
Jewish Immigrant Settlement Patterns in Manchester and Leeds 1881
This paper examines the 19th century Jewish immigrant quarters of Manchester and Leeds. It uses original census data to look at the entire population of the two areas of initial settlement. Analysis of family and kin structure, occupations of head of household, country of origin and length of time in the country as well as analysis of the settlement patterns at the street level are combined to examine the phenomenon of immigrant clustering. It is…
Socioeconomic Consequences of Mercury Use and Pollution
In the past, human activities often resulted in mercury releases to the biosphere with little consideration of undesirable consequences for the health of humans and wildlife. This paper outlines the pathways through which humans and wildlife are exposed to mercury. Fish consumption is the major route of exposure to methylmercury. Humans can also receive toxic doses of mercury through inhalation of elevated concentrations of gaseous elemental merc…
Understanding the Roots of Voluntary Action
Spatial information models as the backbone of smart infrastructure
Climate change is perhaps the greatest challenge to our life on this planet, with energy and the scarcity of resources being major factors in shaping the landscape of decision-making in industry and public policy.In the UK, the building stock comes first, and transportation comes second in being accounted for carbon emissions.Hence, the efficiency of buildings and the urban network that ties them together needs to be treated as top priority in or…
Data-driven urban management
Big data analytics and artificial intelligence, paired with blockchain technology, the Internet of Things, and other emerging technologies, are poised to revolutionise urban management. With massive amounts of data collected from citizens, devices, and traditional sources such as routine and well-established censuses, urban areas across the world have - for the first time in history - the opportunity to monitor and manage their urban infrastructu…
Natural movement
Computer Science (7 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Data science (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Graph (2 works)