Today we’d like to introduce you to M. Gordon Brown.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Gordon. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I started developing a methodology using network mathematics to analyze spatial patterns and how they affected pedestrian movement about 30 years ago while I was teaching at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado. They did a good job predicting where people were most likely to walk and not walk in shopping malls, shopping streets, hospital floors and work environments. So I began my consulting practice looking at shopping centers that didn’t work, at office environments that didn’t bring the right people together and shopping streets were few people shopped. This made it possible to determine whether redesigning the configuration would work or whether the problems were too extensive to spend much more money on.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Of course there have been ups and downs but it has been smoother than I expected it. From the experiences in the first few years, we worked on a major First Amendment public forum case involving Coors field in Denver, a big architectural copyright case in Beverly Hills and a number of premises liability cases around the country.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
Since we specialize in the relationships between human movement, built environments, and human cognition, we work in several areas. Premises liability, real estate investment, public space, and eminent domain access takings, architectural copyright, and design satisfaction. We are different from designers, engineers, appraisers, and other real estate consultants in that we have a very solid scientific foundation for the evidence we develop. So we are able to help owners and users of built environments.
What were you like growing up?
I grew up in Springfield Illinois. I was very shy, ill too often, 6 feet tall at age 13 and I tried many sports until I found fencing, which I did off and on for the next forty years. I have been fascinated by large cities and wanted to be a city planner initially, but that did not help me understand cities. So my career has given me different perspectives on cities and I recently published a book based on that. Like my wife I am a dog lover I have had large sight hounds for the past 40 years. I have lived and worked in Europe and the Middle East and have traveled in Africa and Southeast Asia. I indulge in good food good wine and good whiskey when I can.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.spaceanalytics.com
- Phone: 312 715 7722
- Email: brown.mg@spaceanalytics.com
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