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→