The New Modal
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metaYER – Mapping urban activities for place makers for UNDP
United Nation’s Development Programme UNDP invited SPIN Unit to analyse the most important urban park of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. This report presents the outcome of our analysis on the historic Circular Park, based on multiple geo- referenced data…
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metaNAR – Mapping the image of the city.
The city of Narva is preparing the new masterplan and one of the core strategies is to make the city attractive and livable for the youth. Yet, young people are elusive to traditional surveys and they seldom enjoy participatory processes.…
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Socio-Spatial Analytics of Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country. It has been the capital since…
Read MoreOptional and necessary activities: operationalising Jan Gehl’s analysis of urban space with Foursquare data
The paper presents a method to operationalise Jan Gehl’s categorisation of dweller’s activity patterns in public space using Foursquare data. The ‘Urban Activity Wheel’ method is instrumental in showing how location based social media data is beneficial to understand the…
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metaYLE – Sustainable Development Scenario
This report provides an overview of the scenarios and forecasts shaping the development of the Ülemiste smart city district and Tallinn Airport for 2050.We developed 3 scenarios to find new opportunities and potentials for sustainable urban mobility, matching the projected…
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metaPARK – Performance-based parking in Tallinn
Ensuring a city’s success and innovations based on urban assets requires connections and proximities, urban density and diversity of activities. A city can grow economically and socially without expanding if it is capable of more densely concentrating capital, jobs and…
Read MoreIntegrative Urbanism: Using Social Media to Map Activity Patterns for Decision-Making Assessment
Purpose – In the context of digital spatial analysis and modeling urban space and processes, this article presents a methodology to update and operationalize Jan Gehl’s traditional observations on activities people engage in public urban space. We aim to show…
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IFKAD 2018 – Societal Impact of Knowledge and Design
The purpose of IFKAD 2018 was to explore the role and the relevance of new sources, dimensions and characteristics of knowledge supporting organizations as well as regional and urban systems in their aim to create valuable societal impact by addressing…
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Sharing Cities Shaping Cities – An international research symposium
The event was attended by nearly 50 delegates, including researchers and PhD candidates, practitioners, Milan municipality officers. Out of nearly 70 proposals submitted to the call, 13 contributions were selected to be presented by scholars and practitioners coming from 3…
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