Selected Journal Articles

2010

Grid-enabling geographically weighted regression: a case study of participation in higher education in England. Transactions in GIS, 14, 43-61 (R Harris, D Grose, A D Singleton, C Brunsdon, P A Longley)

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

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

The surname regions of Great Britain. Journal of Maps, 1-9, in press. (J A Cheshire, P A Longley, A D Singleton)

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

A mobile information service for a grassroots environmental network: understanding users perspectives and information requirements. Area, in press (H Rahemtulla, M Haklay, P A Longley)

Lost in translation.  Cross-cultural experiences in teaching geo-genealogy.  Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 34: 21-38 (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, 88: 643-66 (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, 35: 1437-60 (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 22: 23: 737-63 (P A Longley, A D Singleton)

Linking social deprivation and digital exclusion in England.  Urban Studies, 46(7), 1275-98 (P A Longley. A D Singleton)

Teenage pregnancy - new tools to support local health campaigns.  Health and Place. 15, 300-7 (J Petersen, P Atkinson, S Petrie, M Gibin, D Ashby, P A Longley)

Geodemographics, visualization and social networks in applied geography.  Applied Geography, 29: 289-98 (A D Singleton, P A Longley)

2008

An exploratory cartographic visualisation of London through the Google Maps API. Applied Spatial Analysis and Planning, 1:85:97 (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 40: 360-82 (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: Government and Policy 24: 159-175 (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 24: 67-74 (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 96: 31-48  (P A Longley, R Webber, D Lloyd R Webber)

A test environment for location-based services applications.  Transaction in GIS 10: 43-61  (C Li, P A Longley)

2005

Geocomputation, geodemographics and resource allocation for local policing. Transactions in GIS 9: 53-72 (D I Ashby and P A Longley)

The emergence of geoportals and their role in spatial data infrastructures Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 29: 3-14 (D J Maguire and P A Longley)

Geographic information portals - a UK perspective. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 29: 49-69 (P Beaumont, P A Longley and D J Maguire)

A renaissance of geodemographics for public service delivery. Progress in Human Geography, 29: 57-63

Quantifying interpolation errors in urban airborne laser scanning models. Geographical Analysis 37: 200-24 (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, 12, 407-17 (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 94: 503-19 (P A Longley, C Tobón)
GIS on modelling and representation 2004. Progress in Human Geography, 28: 108-16

Targeting clusters of deprivation within cities.  In G Clarke and J Stilwell (eds) Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis.  Chichester, John Wiley: 89-110 (R Harris, PA Longley)

2003

Developments in socio-economic data infrastructures. Progress in Human Geography, 27: 114-21

2002

Will developments in urban remote sensing and GIS lead to 'better' urban geography? Progress in Human Geography, 26: 231-9
Measurement of density gradients and space-filling in urban systems. Papers in Regional Science, 81: 1-28 (P A Longley, T V Mesev) DOI 10.1007/8101100100087
Creating small area measures of urban deprivation. Environment and Planning A, 34: 1073-93 (R J Harris, P A Longley) doi 10.1068/a34120

2000

The academic success of GIS in geography: problems and prospects. Journal of Geographical Systems 2: 37-42
GIS and spatial analysis in the new millennium. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90: 157-65
On the measurement and generalisation of urban form. Environment and Planning A 32: 473-88 (P A Longley, T V Mesev)
New data and approaches for urban analysis: models of residential densities. Transactions in GIS 4: 217-34 (R J Harris, P A Longley)