Crowds and Identities: John Drury's Research Group

The announcement today that Greek banks will be closed at least until the referendum on Sunday was apparently prompted by the decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) to end the financial support that has allowed the banks to function…

We act as and are confronted with pedestrians and crowds everywhere in our daily routine. As Vuchic (1999) says in his book Transportation for Livable Cities: “Every trip begins and ends on foot, even if only to and from a…

I am currently in Santiago, Chile, meeting with colleagues at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile to discuss disaster research. Chile is an obvious place for such research, since it regularly suffers from a variety of natural disasters. In the…