urbanism

In recent years, big data and in particular social media data have been used to observe the city and define new areas of study that allow researchers to set different approaches to acquire knowledge about the city.

“They have created opportunities to visualize and explore human-environment connections that were previously invisible”.

These new approaches make scholars and planners capable of studying intangible parameters linked to places  through layers of information. 

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These layers allow to define invisible image of the city beyond its spatial form through the study of data. In other words, this approach to the city would be formed by a set of individual significations, experiences and perceptions that constitute complex system with a phenomenological approach. Cities are a hybrid space where intangible layers merge with physical space.

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Data visualization and GIS tools allow us to extract socio-spatial information from raw data sources and make it suitable for urban analysis and evaluation.

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Projects listed here are developed within great multi-disciplinary teams at SPIN UNIT Lab Helsinki, Finland; SPIN UNIT Tallinn, Estonia, and the CityScienceLab* at HafenCity University in Hamburg, Germany.

*Undergoing restructuring

see also "Digital City Science"

DATA AND THE CITY

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DWELLING AND THE CITY

architecture

Spatial configuration of places cannot be considered the only driver of life in the city, as online interactions take a role in the process that must be acknowledged. Unprecedented tools, methods, techniques and trans-disciplinary perspectives are currently being tested and deployed in this new field of research.

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Architectural design projects listed here were developed in Jaime Sepulcre Arquitecturas in Elche, Spain (2015-2016) in COCO Studio in Alicante, Spain (2017), in BERSAM Gestión Arquitectónica in El Campello, Spain (2018), or as freelance work (2017-2019).

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graphic, web, and product design

DESIGN AND THE CITY

The novelty of this research field and the enormous creative and evolutionary capacity of data platforms aim to be initial approaches that provide a multidisciplinary discourse to support further studies on why and how to look at cities, acknowledging their multiple and contemporary dimensions, and testing innovative methods and perspectives to exploit these resources. 

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These academic work is performed as a part of research at the University of Alicante, Spain (2015-2019), as R+D in SPIN Unit Lab Helsink-Tallinn (2016-ongoing), at the HafenCity University in Hamburg, Germany (2018-ongoing) or as independent work.

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Some of the papers listed here were also presented in international symposiums and congresses.

Interview by SocialScienceLab in Digital October Center, Moscow

coming soon

López Baeza, J., Jörg Rainer Noennig, Vanessa Weber,  Arnaud Grignard, Ariel Noyman, Kent Larson, Sebastian Saxe, Ulrich Baldauf (2021) Testing optimization scenarios of cruise passenger ground transportation using agent-based models and crowd-sourced data. In Petra Ahrweiler and Martin Neumann (Eds): Advances in Social Simulation. Chapter 55

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Carpio-Pinedo, J., López Baeza, J. (2021) La producción de identidad  de los nuevos desarrollos urbanos a través del place-based social big data: los crecimientos del área metropolitana de Madrid durante la burbuja inmobiliaria (1990-2012). EURE  Revista latinoamericana de estudios urbano regionales 47(140):5-28. ISSN 0250-7161

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Carrasco Hortal, Jose; García Valero, Benito; Francés García, Francisco; Carratalá Puertas, Liberto; López Baeza, Jesús (2020). Habitar Yoknapatawpha. Teoría y técnicas de la poética cognitiva y la lingüística estructural para animar historias en un paisaje rural ficticio. In Roig Vila (Ed.) La docencia en la Enseñanza Superior. Nuevas aportaciones desde la investigación e innovación educativas. pp.1132-1143. Editorial Octaedro. Alicante. ISBN: 978-84-18348-11-2

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Hortal, J. C., Valero, B. G., & Baeza, J. L. (2020). Transcultures and Communities: Exercises on validation and design of tales of migration. Charrette, 6(2), 11-29.

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Carrasco Hortal, J., & López Baeza, J. (2020). Image Tagging and Gearing Resources applied to students’ graphic materials: Learning techniques in pursuit of Inclusiveness for Urban and Landscape Design. Research in Urbanism Series, 6, 171-188. ISSN 1875-0192.

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López Baeza, J. (2020). La mirada de Adolf Loos sobre el café vienés como tercer lugar. Páginas (Rosario): Revista Digital de la Escuela de Historia, 12(29), 10. ISSN 1851-992X

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Cerrone, D., López Baeza, J., & Lehtovuori, P. (2020). Optional and necessary activities: operationalising Jan Gehl's analysis of urban space with Foursquare data. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 11(1), 68-79. Chicago. ISSN: 2040-4476

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López Baeza, J., Jörg Rainer Noennig, Vanessa Weber,  Arnaud Grignard, Ariel Noyman, Kent Larson, Sebastian Saxe, Ulrich Baldauf (2020) Mobility solutions for cruise passenger transfer: An exploration of scenarios using agent-based simulation models. In Müller, B., Meyer, G. (eds) Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe 2. Enablers of Inclusive, Seamless and Sustainable Mobility, LNMOB, pp. 1–13. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-38027-4

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López Baeza, J. (2020) Unveiling urban dynamics: An exploration of tools and methods using crowd-sourced data for the study of urban space. [Phd dissertation] University of Alicante.

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Carrasco, Jose, García Valero Benito, Francés, Francisco, Lucas, Aristida, Carratalá, Liberto, Jesús López Baeza (2019) Migrant Tools: recursos de aprendizaje para un mundo de entidades en tránsito. In Lledó Carreres, A & Antolí Martçinez, J. M. (eds.) Redes-Innovaestic 2019. Libro de Actas. pp 387-389. ISBN: 978-84-09-07185-2

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Carrasco Hortal, J., Abellán Alarcón, A., García-Valero, B. E., Tortosa, V., Francés, F., Carratalá, L., ... & López Baeza, J. (2019). Viceversos, prácticas docentes compartidas entre Humanidades, Ciencias Sociales y Arquitectura. En: Roig-Vila, Rosabel (coord.). Memòries del Programa de Xarxes-I3CE de qualitat, innovació i investigació en docència universitària. Convocatòria 2018-19. pp. 1355-1377. ISBN 978-84-09-15746-4.

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López Baeza, Jesús; Carrasco Hortal, José; Abellán Alarcón, Antonio; Carratalá Puertas, Liberto; Francés García, Francisco; Llorca Asensi, Elena (2018)  Sobre la percepción: Etiquetado de material gráfico en talleres compartidos por Arquitectura y Sociología del Derecho. In Roig Vila (Ed.) El compromiso académico y social a través de la investigación e innovación educativas en la Enseñanza Superior. pp 646-656 Editorial Octaedro. Alicante. ISBN: 978-84-17219-25-3

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Cerrone, D., López Baeza, J., Lehtovuori, P.  (2018)  Integrative Urbanism: Using Social Media to Map Activity Patterns for Decision-Making Assessment IFKAD 2018 Societal Impact of Knowledge and Design. Delft. ISBN:  ISBN: 978-88-96687-11-6

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Tomás Castelló, P., López Baeza, J. Pastor, C. (2018) Use of applications with georeferenced contacts 'dating apps' to identify creative areas WIT Transactions on The Built Environment 179 (2018): 197-207. ISSN: 1743-3509

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López Baeza, J. (2017) Urban Metamorphology Lab Alicante. Workshop Report. University of Alicante. Alicante. ISBN 978-84-16989-85-0

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López Baeza, J., Männigo, K., Cerrone, D.  (2017) Comparing two methods for Urban Complexity calculation using Shannon-Wiener index. Case Study: Schiedam, Netherlands. Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements XVIII. WIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences. ISBN 978-1-78466-201-1

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Lazzarini, L. & López Baeza, J. (2017) “La Strada dei Funghi”: studiare la percezione delle trasformazioni urbane attraverso Instagram. Urbanistica. Rivista trimestrale dell'Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica INU. Roma. Publisher: INU Edizioni Srl. May 2017 ISSN 0042-1022 

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López Baeza, J., Serrano Estrada, L., Nolasco Cirugeda, A. (2016) Percepción y uso social de una transformación urbana a través del social media. Las setas gigantes de la calle San Francisco [i2] Investigación e Innovación en Arquitectura y Territorio Vol 5.2. Alicante. Publisher: Departamento de Expresión Gráfica y Cartografía. Escuela Politécnica Superior. Universidad de Alicante. ISSN 2341-0515 

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Lazzarini, L. & López Baeza, J. (2016) The Mushrooms' Lesson: Instagram as a tool to evaluate users' perception of urban transformations. In: Talia, M., ed. (2016), A new cycle of Urban Planning between Tactic and Strategy, Roma-Milano: Planum Publisher, pp. 178-184. ISBN 978-88-9923705-9 

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López Baeza, J. (2016) Wien 1010. [Master's dissertation] Universidad de Alicante

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A. Nolasco Cirugeda; L. Serrano Estrada; P. Martí Ciriquián; J. López Baeza. (2016) La sala de exposiciones: un nuevo espacio para la difusión de algunos resultados docentes. En Tortosa Ybáñez, María Teresa; Grau Company, Salvador; Álvarez Teruel, José Daniel (coords.). XIV Jornades de Xarxes d ́Investigació en Docència Universitària. Investigació, innovació i ensenyament universitari: enfocaments pluridisciplinaris. Alacant: Universitat d'Alacant, Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2016. 3131 p. ISBN 978-84-608-7976-3 

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Birret, C. López Baeza, J. Starzer, M. Weinzinger, A. (2015) Childen’s perception of confort zones in public space. In Knierbein, S (2015) My Place, their Place, our Place. Urban Culture, Public Space and Knowledge – Education and Difference. Vienna. Stadtteilplanung Flächennutzung. ISBN 978-3-903003-01-9 

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López Baeza, J. (2015) La Cohesión Social desde las Redes Sociales: El caso de la Calle San Francisco. [Bachelor dissertation]. Universidad de Alicante. URI