López-Baeza
Projects

Data and the City

Most of the work presented here was developed in collaboration with public administrations, where cities are approached not as static plans but as living systems that can be observed, measured and understood through data. Since 2015 these projects have spanned more than thirty cities, beginning with SPIN Unit in Helsinki and Tallinn, continuing at the Digital City Science group and CityScienceLab of HafenCity University Hamburg, at the University of Alicante, and, since 2023, within the Urban and Regional Solutions unit at MB3 Gestión.

Although each commission responds to a different challenge, they share a common objective: making urban decisions more accountable through evidence. Questions about mobility, public space, accessibility, tourism, urban decline or service provision are explored by combining administrative records, geospatial information, telecommunications, social media, urban morphometrics and simulation models. The result is a collection of projects where data is not an end in itself, but a way of understanding how cities actually function.

Projects per year60 total · peak 10 in 2020
201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
60 projects 2015–2026
YrCityInstitutionInstitution
2026Pärnu Parking Analysis & StrategyPärnuSPIN Unit 20264D Consummerscapes: Vulnerabilidad y Resiliencia — estrategias de regeneración del tejido económico urbano caracterizado según datos geolocalizados de redes socialesAlicante, Valencia, CastellónUniversity of Alicante · HafenCity University Hamburg
2026PID Plataforma Inteligente de DestinosCáceres, Badajoz, Valladolid, Álava, Granada, Salamanca, Getafe, SevillaMB3 Gestión
2026Zaragoza Interoperabilidad de Gemelos DigitalesZaragozaMB3 Gestión
2026Sevilla City One Metropolitan Analysis PlatformSevilleMB3 Gestión
2025Winter Maintenance for Walking and CyclingHarju CountySPIN Unit 2025Bolt Drive — Car-Sharing Mode-Shift SurveyTallinnSPIN Unit
2025EDINT Espacio de datosBadajozMB3 Gestión
2024OPRID Regional AnalysisCáceresMB3 Gestión 2024Tartu Parking Policy Baseline AnalysisTartuSPIN Unit 2024Tallinn Service Accessibility AnalysisTallinnSPIN Unit
2024CENTESIMAL MálagaMálagaMB3 Gestión
2023ScienceCity BahrenfeldHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg
2023Block 1 — Socialist-Era SuperblockPrishtinaSPIN Unit · UNDP
2023VEI Vigo Edificios InteligentesVigoMB3 Gestión
2023IMEQ — Era4Health (European Commission)Application writing — grantedHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg
2023FORTHCOMING — DUT Driving Urban Transitions (European Commission)Application writing — grantedHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg
2022Grasbrook CityScopeHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg 2022Stockmann — Rail Baltica Pedestrian FlowRigaSPIN Unit 2022Tallinn 1.5TallinnSPIN Unit 2022Shrinking Cities National StudyEstoniaSPIN Unit 2022Experimentation Evaluation ToolkitYlä-Malmi, HelsinkiSPIN Unit · Forum Virium 2022Ida-Viru County Shrinking Cities AnalysisIda-ViruSPIN Unit · TalTech
2022COUP4CUT — Hamburg Port AuthorityApplication writing — grantedHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg
2022VIRION — Erasmus+Application writing — grantedHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg
2021MOVE21Hamburg · Oslo · GothenburgHafenCity University Hamburg 2021Re:Center JyväskyläJyväskyläSPIN Unit 2021The New ModalHarjumaa CountySPIN Unit 2020Port City-Model: Steinwerder Traffic ScenariosHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg 2020SmartSquareHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg 2020Ülemiste Mobility NudgeTallinnSPIN Unit 2020Re-center NarvaNarvaSPIN Unit · City of Narva 2020Riga Mobility MetricsRigaSPIN Unit · Demos Helsinki 2020A Research Pilot for Shrinking CitiesIda-ViruSPIN Unit · TalTech 2020Lyon–Turin Multimodal Network MapsAlps, France / ItalySPIN Unit · TELT 2020Socio-Spatial Analytics of YerevanYerevanSPIN Unit · UNDP 2020Circular ParkYerevanSPIN Unit · UNDP
2020Viceversos: shared teaching practices between Humanities, Social Sciences and Architecture (III) — PI Dr. José Carrasco HortalResearch projectAlicanteUniversity of Alicante
2019Port-City Model: Cruise TerminalsHamburgHafenCity University Hamburg 2019metaLINN — Tallinn City CentreTallinnSPIN Unit · City of Tallinn 2019metaPARK — Performance-Based ParkingTallinnSPIN Unit · City of Tallinn 2019metaPARK — Citywide Parking Count MapTallinnSPIN Unit · City of Tallinn 2019metaPARK — Parking Technical NormativeTallinnSPIN Unit · City of Tallinn 2019New FuturamaHelsinkiSPIN Unit · Demos Helsinki 2019metaLINN+8 — Unfinished CityTallinnSPIN Unit · Estonian Academy of Arts 2019Heritage of Sipoo — Typomorphology MapSipooSPIN Unit · Livady 2019Lapinlahti 360HelsinkiSPIN Unit · Livady
2019Viceversos: shared teaching practices between Humanities, Social Sciences and Architecture (II) — PI Dr. José Carrasco HortalResearch projectAlicanteUniversity of Alicante
2018Turku Open PlatformTurkuSPIN Unit · City of Turku
2018Viceversos: shared teaching practices between Humanities, Social Sciences and Architecture (I) — PI Dr. José Carrasco HortalResearch projectAlicanteUniversity of Alicante
2018Lecciones urbanísticas de la burbuja inmobiliaria: dimensiones, costos y beneficios de las formas características del crecimiento urbano español 1990–2006 (BIA2015-70311-R) — PI Dr. Julio Pozueta EchávarriResearch project — external collaboratorMadridPolytechnic University of Madrid
2017Voorbij de WinkelstraatSchiedamSPIN Unit · karres+brands 2017Urban Dynamics of SaratovSaratovSPIN Unit · Strelka KB 201738 FIFA World Cup Cities38 cities, RussiaSPIN Unit · Strelka KB 2017The Hidden Life of 32 Russian Monotowns32 cities, RussiaSPIN Unit · Strelka KB 2017MediaCityUK Activity AnalysisSalfordSPIN Unit · University of Salford
2017Viceversos: shared resources in Sociology and Architecture (I) — PI Dr. José Carrasco HortalResearch projectAlicanteUniversity of Alicante
2016Wien 1010: Stadt, Stil und KaffeehauskulturViennaUniversity of Alicante 2015Social Cohesion in Social MediaAlicanteUniversity of Alicante
2015Representation and interpretation of urban dynamics through social media and web services geo-tagged data — MAPPINGAME — PI Dr. Almudena Nolasco CirugedaResearch projectAlicanteUniversity of Alicante