UrbanMosaicLab

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📢 How can we better understand urban accessibility—not just physically, but as citizens perceive it?

📚Check out our recent article on perceived accessibility: https://t.co/PGkxIzeaqr

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🌎 UMosaicLab in Argentina: expanding networks around health & well-being

From Apr 21–25, Erika Meléndez Oliva visited Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Santa Fe), highlighting how nutrition, public health, and prevention research support more equitable and resilient societies.

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📢 How are digital platforms reshaping citizen participation in urban research?

In our latest book chapter, we explore how Twitter, Foursquare, Wikiloc & Google Places help capture urban dynamics beyond surveys and field observation.

📘 Chapter link: https://t.co/bog9BsQXFm

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🔍 How does accessibility shape engagement with urban cultural heritage?

Our latest study explores historic centres in Valencia & Alicante, combining Foursquare social media data with Space Syntax analysis.

Full paper: https://t.co/GjYJVKuajw

#UrbanPlanning #CulturalHeritage

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🌍✨ Last summer, our researcher Mariana Huskinson wrapped up an inspiring experience at the GD-CURE Summer School on Spatial Climate Planning, organised under the PRIN-PNRR project GeoDesign for Climate URban nEutrality.
#ClimateNeutrality #UrbanResearch

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@UrbanMosaicLab took part in the May conference in Katowice on industrial heritage. Pablo Martí Ciriquian presented our work on transforming San Vicente’s former cement factory, developed with the University of Alicante and the municipality.
#Transform4Europe #Katowice

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@UrbanMosaicLab is part of EUrban DECO, a CERV-funded project examining how colonial legacies persist in Europe’s cities through public space and heritage. We lead the project’s collaborative mapping methodology. Learn more: https://t.co/35U4Nv5G3g

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Our Cities paper examines what makes plazas in historic centres thrive using data from Google Places, Foursquare, Twitter & Instagram. Key drivers: diversity, walkability, landmarks and local events. Link: https://t.co/kt7RzY2dyo
#SmartCities #PublicSpaces

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On May 13, @UrbanMosaicLab researchers Álvaro Bernabeu Bautista and Mariana Huskinson delivered two seminars and a GIS workshop at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, exploring geolocated data, accessibility, care, and inclusive urban design.
#GISWorkshop

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Special thanks to @J_Almazan_Arch, @APinedaKeio & Mina Hirose!

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New research published in Cities: we compared face-to-face interviews & LBSN data to map community spaces in a shrinking Tokyo suburb.
Collaboration between @UrbanMosaicLab (UA) & Almazán Lab (Keio Univ.)
👉 https://t.co/2ddZyhDCJq
#UrbanStudies #LBSN #ParticipatoryMapping #Tokyo

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Our latest article is now available online! We analyze the complementarity of interviews and social media data to identify community spaces in a suburban area of Tokyo. You can access it for free until July 10, 2025, by following this link:
https://t.co/xB4QMqTNY5

#weeklyreading

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📢 Meet UrbanMosaicLab! 🌍🏙️
We’re a research group exploring how people interact with urban spaces using geolocated data, AI & spatial analysis — to build healthier, smarter & more inclusive cities.
🔗 Follow us for insights, projects & collabs!
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