Journal Papers

2024

A century of telephony: digital capture of British telephone directories, 1880-1984. Annals of GIS N TanuM Gibin, D Hu, P A Longley). In press.

Mapping Residential Structure through the London Output Area Classification. Environment and Planning B (A D Singleton, P A Longley). In press.

2023

Geography, ethnicity, genealogy and inter-generational social inequality in Great Britain. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 48: 1-16 (P Longley, T Lan, J van Dijk), DOI: 10.1111/tran.12622

Local Data Spaces: Leveraging trusted research environments for secure location-based policy research in the age of coronavirus disease-2019Data & Policy, 5: e22 (J L Macdonald, M A Green, M Gibin, A D Singleton, P A Longley). DOI: 10.1017/dap.2023.14

A neighbourhood Output Area Classification from the 2021 and 2022 UK censuses. The Geographical Journal (J Wyszomierski, P A Longley, A D Singleton, C Gale, O O’Brien). DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12550

2022

An individual level method for improved estimation of ethnic characteristics. International Regional Science Review, 46(3) (T Lian, P A Longley) DOI: 10.1177/01600176221116568

British surname origins, population structure and health outcomes– an observational study of hospital admissions. Scientific Reports,12: 2156 (J Petersen, J Kandt, P A Longley)

From data to narratives: scrutinising the spatial dimensions of social and cultural phenomena through lenses of interactive Web mapping. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis 6:22 (T Lan, O O’Brien,  J Cheshire, A Singleton, P Longley). DOI: 10.1007/s41651-022-00117-x 

2021

The geography of intergenerational social mobility in Britain. Nature Communications (P A Longley, J van Dijk, T Lan)

Ethnic disparities in preventable hospitalisation in England – an analysis of 916,375 emergency admissions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,76(1)(J Petersen, J Kandt, P A Longley)

Ethnic inequalities in hospital admissions in England – an observational study. BMC Public Health, (J Petersen, J Kandt, P A Longley)

Using linked consumer registers to estimate residential moves in the United Kingdom. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Statistics in Society (J Van Dijk, G Lansley, P A Longley)

The provenance of loyalty card data for urban and retail analytics. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (T Rains, P A Longley)

Names-based ethnicity enhancement of hospital admissions in England, 1999–2013. International Journal of Medical Informatics (J Petersen, J Kandt, P A Longley)

Family names, city size distributions and residential differentiation in Great Britain, 1881-1901. Urban Studies (T Lan, J Van Dijk, P A Longley)

Interactive web mapping of geodemographics through user-specified regionalisations. Journal of Maps (T Lan, P A Longley)

Urban morphology and residential differentiation across Great Britain, 1881-1901. Annals of the American Association of Geographers (T Lan, P A Longley)

2020

Interactive display of surnames distributions in historic and contemporary Great Britain. Journal of Maps (J Van Dijk, P A Longley)

Measuring the changing pattern of ethnic segregation in England and Wales with Consumer Registers. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (LT Lan, J Kandt, P A Longley)

2019

Estimating real-time high street footfall from wi-fi probe requests. International Journal of Geographic Information Science (B Soundararaj, J Cheshire, P A Longley)

Creating a linked consumer register for granular demographic analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) (G Lansley, W Li and P A Longley)

Data infrastructure requirements for new geodemographic classifications:The example of London’s workplace zones. Applied Geography (A D Singleton, P A Longley)

Geo-referencing and mapping 1901 Census addresses for England and Wales. International Journal of Geo-Information (T Lan, P A Longley)

Geographic scales of residential segregation in English cities. Urban Geography (T Lan, J Kandt, P A Longley)

2018

Ethnicity estimation using family naming practices. PLoS ONE (J Kandt, P A Longley)

2017

More bark than bytes? Reflections on 21+ years of geocomputation. Environment and Planning B, Urban Analytics and City Science (R Harris, D O’Sullivan, M Gahegan, M Charlton, L Comber, P Longley et al)

Interactional regions in cities: making sense of flows across networked systems. International Journal of Geographic Information Science (K Kempinska, J Shawe-Taylor, P A Longley)

2016

Geo-temporal Twitter demographics. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (P A Longley, M Adnan)

Measuring the spatial vulnerability of retail centres to online consumption through a framework of e-resilience. Geoforum (D Singleton, L Dolega, D Riddlesden, P A Longley)

The stability of geodemographic cluster assignments over an inter-censal period. Journal of Geographical Systems (A D Singleton, M Pavlis, P A Longley)

Deriving age and gender from forenames for consumer analytics. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (G Lansley, P A Longley)

The geography of Twitter topics in London. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems Services (G Lansley, P A Longley)

Creating the 2011 Area Classification for Output Areas (2011 OAC). Journal of Spatial Information Science (C G Gale, A D Singleton, A G Bates, P A Longley)

Regional surnames and genetic structure in Great Britain. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers (J Kandt, J A Cheshire, P A Longley)

A Classification of multidimensional Open Data of urban morphology. Built Environment (A Alexiou, A D Singleton, P A Longley)

2015

The geo-temporal demographics of Twitter usage. Environment and Planning A (P A Longley, M Adnan, G Lansley)

The internal structure of Greater London: a comparison of national and regional geodemographic models. Geo: Geography and Environment (A D Singleton, P A Longley)

2014

Japanese surname regions. Papers in Regional Science (J A Cheshire, P A Longley, K Yano, T Nakaya)

A geocomputational analysis of Twitter activity around different world cities. Geo-spatial Information Science doi: (M Adnan, A Leak, P A Longley)

2013

Exploring geo-genealogy using Internet surname search histories. Journal of Maps   (Y Zhang, M Adnan, R Maciejewski, P A Longley)

Geographical connections: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards ceremony 2013. The Geographical Journal (J Rees, M Palin, K Richards, K Jones, P Longley, S Page)

OACoder: postcode coding tool. Journal of Open Research Software 1(2) September.  (M Adnan, A D Singleton, P A Longley)

Temporal uncertainty in a small area open geodemographic classification. Transactions in GIS (C Gale, P A Longley)

2012

Geodemographics and the practices of geographic information science. International Journal of Journal of Geographic Information Science

The family name as socio-cultural feature and genetic metaphor: from concepts to methods. Human Biology (P Darlu, G Bloothooft, A Boattini, L Brouwer, M Brouwer, G Brunet, P Chareille, J A Cheshire, R Coates, P A Longley, K Dräger, B Desjardins, P Hanks, K Mandemakers, P Mateos, D Pettener, A Useli, F Manni)

Patterns of patient registration with primary healthcare in the UK National Health Service. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (D J Lewis, P A Longley)

Identifying spatial concentrations of surnames. International Journal of Geographic Information Science (J A Cheshire, P A Longley)

People of the British Isles: preliminary analysis of genotypes and surnames in a UK control population. European Journal of Human Genetics (B Winney, W Bodmer et al)

2011

Delineating Europe’s cultural regions: population structure and surname clustering. Human Biology (J A Cheshire, P Mateos, P A Longley)

Ethnicity in naming networks: socio-cultural ties and population structure. PLoS ONE (P Mateos, P A Longley, D O’Sullivan)

Creating a regional geography of Britain through the spatial analysis of surnames. Geoforum (P A Longley, J A Cheshire, P Mateos)

City shape and the fractality of street patterns. Quaestiones Geographicae (N Mohajeri, P A Longley, M Batty)

Estimating secondary school catchment areas and the spatial equity of access. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (A D Singleton, P A Longley, R Allen, O O’Brien)

Names-based classification of accident and emergency department users. Health and Place (J Petersen, M Gibin, P A Longley, P Mateos, A Grant)

Geodemographics as a tool for targeting neighbourhoods in public health campaigns. Journal of Geographical Systems (J Petersen, M Gibin, P A Longley, P Mateos, P Atkinson, D I Ashby)

Predicting participation in higher education: a comparative evaluation of the performance of geodemographic classifications. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A (C Brunsdon, P A Longley, A D Singleton, D Ashby)

2010

Grid-enabling geographically weighted regression: a case study of participation in higher education in England. Transactions in GIS (R Harris, D Grose, A D Singleton, C Brunsdon, P A Longley)

The surname regions of Great Britain. Journal of Maps (J A Cheshire, P A Longley, A D Singleton)

Towards real-time geodemographics: clustering algorithm performance for large multidimensional spatial databases. Transactions in GIS (M Adnan, P A Longley, A D Singleton, C Brunsdon)

Lost in translation. Cross-cultural experiences in teaching geo-genealogy. Journal of Geography in Higher Education (P A Longley, A D Singleton, K Yano, T Nakaya)

2009

Creating open source geodemographics – refining a national classification of Census Output Areas for applications in higher education. Papers in Regional Science (A D Singleton, P A Longley)

Uncertainty in the analysis of ethnicity classifications: some issues of extent and aggregation of ethnic groups. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (P Mateos, A D Singleton, P A Longley)

Classification through consultation: public views of the geography of the E-Society. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (P A Longley, A D Singleton)

Linking social deprivation and digital exclusion in England. Urban Studies (P A Longley. A D Singleton)

Teenage pregnancy – new tools to support local health campaigns. Health and Place (J Petersen, P Atkinson, S Petrie, M Gibin, D Ashby, P A Longley)

Geodemographics, visualization and social networks in applied geography. Applied Geography (A D Singleton, P A Longley)

2008

An exploratory cartographic visualisation of London through the Google Maps API. Applied Spatial Analysis and Planning (M Gibin, A Singleton, R Milton, P Mateos, P A Longley)

The UK geography of the E-Society: a national classification. Environment and Planning A (P A Longley, R Webber, C Li)

2006

Police reform and the new public management paradigm: matching technology to the rhetoric. Environment and Planning C (D I Ashby, B Irving, P A Longley)

Geodemographic classifications, the digital divide and understanding customer take-up of new technologies. BT Technology BT Technology Journal (P A Longley, D I Ashby, R Webber, C Li)

The quantitative analysis of family names: historic migration and the present day neighbourhood structure of Middlesborough, United Kingdom. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (P A Longley, R Webber, D Lloyd R Webber)

A test environment for location-based services applications. Transaction in GIS (C Li, P A Longley)

2005

Geocomputation, geodemographics and resource allocation for local policing. Transactions in GIS (D I Ashby and P A Longley)

The emergence of geoportals and their role in spatial data infrastructures Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (D J Maguire and P A Longley)

Geographic information portals – a UK perspective. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (P Beaumont, P A Longley and D J Maguire)

A renaissance of geodemographics for public service delivery. Progress in Human Geography

Quantifying interpolation errors in urban airborne laser scanning models. Geographical Analysis (S L Smith, D Holland and P A Longley)

Assessing the usefulness of store card data in direct sales of financial services. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (S J Berry and P A Longley)

2004

Spatial dependence and heterogeneity in patterns of hardship: an intra-urban analysis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (P A Longley, C Tobón)

GIS on modelling and representation 2004. Progress in Human Geography

Targeting clusters of deprivation within cities. Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis (R Harris, PA Longley)

2003


Developments in socio-economic data infrastructures
. Progress in Human Geography

2002


Will developments in urban remote sensing and GIS lead to ‘better’ urban geography?
Progress in Human Geography

Measurement of density gradients and space-filling in urban systems. Papers in Regional Science (P A Longley, T V Mesev)

Creating small area measures of urban deprivation. Environment and Planning A (R J Harris, P A Longley)

2000


The academic success of GIS in geography: problems and prospects.
Journal of Geographical Systems

GIS and spatial analysis in the new millennium. Annals of the Association of American Geographers

On the measurement and generalisation of urban form. Environment and Planning A (P A Longley, T V Mesev)

New data and approaches for urban analysis: models of residential densities. Transactions in GIS (R J Harris, P A Longley)

1999


Towards a new digital data infrastructure for urban analysis and modelling
. Environment and Planning B (P A Longley, R J Harris)

1997


The use of diverse RS-GIS sources to measure and model urban morphology
. Geographical Systems (P Longley, V Mesev)

Beyond analogue models: space filling and density measurement of an urban settlement. Papers in Regional Science (P Longley, V Mesev)

1996


The rates revisited? A geographical reassignment of property valuations and local tax burdens under the council tax
. Environment and Planning C (P Longley, G Higgs, D Martin)

1995


Morphology from imagery:detecting and measuring the density of urban land use
. Environment and Planning A (T V Mesev, P Longley, M Batty, Y Xie)

1994


The predictive use of GIS to model property valuations
. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (P Longley, G Higgs, D Martin)

The use of GIS in the analysis of diverse urban databases. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (D Martin, P Longley, G Higgs)

1993


Models of trading behaviour and accumulation in stratified housing markets
. Environment and Planning B (P Longley, H Williams)

The geographical implications of changing local taxation regimes. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers (P Longley, D Martin, G Higgs)

A GIS-based appraisal of tax valuations. The Journal of Property Valuation and Investment 11: 375-83 (P Longley, G Higgs, D Martin)

1992


Do green belts change the shape of urban areas? A preliminary analysis of the settlement geography of South East England
. Regional Studies (P Longley, M Batty, J Shepherd, G Sadler)

The geographical incidence of local government revenues: an intra-urban case study. Environment and Planning C (D Martin, P Longley, G Higgs)

1991


Housing careers asset accumulation and subsidies to owner occupiers: a microsimulation
. Housing Studies (P Longley, M Clarke, H Williams)

The size shape and dimension of urban settlements. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers (P Longley, M Batty, J Shepherd)

1989


Fractal measurement and line generalisation
. Computers and Geosciences (P Longley, M Batty)

On the fractal measurement of geographical boundaries. Geographical Analysis (P Longley, M Batty)

Urban growth and form:scaling fractal geometry and diffusion-limited aggregation. Environment and Planning A (M Batty, P Longley, S Fotheringham)

Microanalysis and simulation of housing careers: subsidy and accumulation in the UK housing market. Papers of the Regional Science Association (M Clarke, P Longley, H Williams)

Diffusion-limited aggregation and the fractal nature of urban growth. Papers of the Regional Science Association (S Fotheringham, M Batty, P Longley)

1988


Graphical assessment of housing market models
. Urban Studies (P Longley, R Dunn)

The morphology of urban land use Environment and Planning B (M Batty, P Longley)

Research and teaching functions in undergraduate project work . The Journal of Geography in Higher Education (L Moore, P Longley)

An economic and social profile of the Cardiff Bay area. Cambria (J Alden, M Batty, S Batty, P Longley)

1987

Graphical procedures for identifying functional form in binary discrete choice models. Regional Science and Urban Economics (R Dunn, P Longley, N Wrigley)

Fractal-based description of urban form. Environment and Planning B (M Batty, P Longley)

Using fractal geometry to measure maps and simulate cities
Computer Education (P Longley, M Batty)

Urban shapes as fractals . Area (M Batty, P Longley). Reprinted in A Reggiani, K Button, P Nijkamp (2006: eds) Classics in Planning: Planning Models

1986

The fractal-simulation-of-urban-structure-1986. Environment and Planning A (M Batty, P Longley)

1984

Scaling Residential preferences: methodical note Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (P Longley, N Wrigley)

Comparing discrete choice models. In D Pitfield (ed) London Papers in Regional Science

Diagnostic-testing-of-housing-choice-models-1984. Modeling and Simulation (P Longley, N Wrigley, R Dunn)

1983

A discrete choice formulation of housing choice and mobility decisions: the British case. Modeling and Simulation

Professor of Geographic Information Science, University College London