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| Founded in 1989, Space Analytics offers expert witness services focused on the design, configuration and performance of buildings and places.
Two themes underlie our work: 1) representation and simulation of functional and configurational elements of built environments; 2) evaluation of design decision processes. Our methodologies - spatial network geometries based on shape recognition and mathematical network analysis - meet the four Daubert criteria for evaluating the admissibility of expert testimony. They provide concrete results that can be presented in everyday language and understandable graphics. Types of problems: · Partial Takings · Architectural Trade Dress · Public Forum · Access · Slip and Fall · Wayfinding · Crime Foreseeability · Zoning · Functional Utility · Owner-Builder-Designer-Tenant Disputes · Design Performance Standards · Design Impact on Value · Design Impact on Construction. Types of buildings, properties and places: · Land development · Downtown redevelopment · Shopping centers – regional, specialty, outlet, community · Retail stores · Restaurants · Business improvement districts · Corporate offices – insurance, utilities · Professional offices · Hospital floors and day surgeries · Main streets · Arterial streets · High-tech manufacturing · Warehouses · Airport terminals · Railroad terminals · Hospitality and resorts · Casinos · Performing arts centers · Residential neighborhoods · Housing – single-family, multi-family, rental, purchase · Large luxury houses – historic and contemporary · Urban parks · Ballparks We invented design due diligence, are the first firm to use innovative European-developed pedestrian analysis techniques and the first firm to successfully quantify and diagnose functional obsolescence. M. Gordon Brown, Principal, founded Space Analytics after working as an architecture professor and university administrator in Chicago, Phoenix and Denver and as manager of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Chicago office. He is of counsel with The Roulac Group in San Rafael, California and was managing director of Space Syntax, Ltd, London. He was previously a city planner with local and state government and a consulting firm and developed the M.Arch./M.B.A. program at Arizona State University. He has been on Court TV, interviewed on Public Radio’s Marketplace program, lectured widely and his articles have been published in scientific journals, trade journals, newspapers and magazines. Mr. Brown was the Cass Gilbert Visiting Lecturer at the University of Minnesota and is listed in Who’s Who in the West. His degrees include an M.Sc. (thesis distinction) in Architecture from the University of London; an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; a B.S. Communications from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is currently completing a Ph.D (abd) at the University of London | |||||||||||||||
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Architecture Commercial Real Estate Construction Claims & Disputes Premises Liability Slip & Fall | |||||||||||||||
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