Topic List
Topic List
General multidisciplinary topics
General multidisciplinary topics
- Urban analytics: spatial statistics, geographical information science, computational modelling, visualization, geo-computation, remote sensing, agent-based modelling, mathematical modelling, complex systems, crowdsourcing, city science, big data, optimization, etc.
- Qualitative studies: urban planning, urban design, urban fabric, social science, associative tissue, political approaches, and implications, etc.
- Integration of quantitative and qualitative studies.
Data sources and their ecosystem
Data sources and their ecosystem
- Description of relevant sources (static and real time): population, services, housing, economy, city shape and infrastructures, transport, traffic density and congestion, air quality, bike use, pedestrian density, tourist activity, etc.
- Open sources: municipal data portals, Open Street Maps (OSM), DaaS (Google, Uber, SafeGraph like services, etc.), online social networks (Twitter, Instagram, etc.), IoT, etc.
- Private data repositories and data silos.
Urban planning and socio-demographic analysis
Urban planning and socio-demographic analysis
- Structure of the city and their implications: socio-economic analysis of residents, effective neighborhoods, renting costs, estimation of floating populations, heat island effect, greenhouse emissions, pollution, city's "metabolism" (water, electricity, communications)
- Dynamical processes occurring in the city and their implications: gentrification processes, residence mobility between neighborhoods and their determinants, implications of commuting citizens, interplay between local structure and mobility, spatial justice, interplay between virtual social networks and urban life, etc.
- Modelling motorized traffic (origin-destination matrices and their implications in the socio-economic strata, routes, fundamental diagram, etc.), road network and their efficiency, congestion (modeling and countermeasures such as congestion pricing), parking, modelling public transport (design, real time use, origin-destination matrices, analysis of routes), mobility across the urban-rural continuum, multimodal mobility.
- Paradigms of urban planning: Superilles, eixos verds, 15-minute city, effective neighborhoods, distribution of services, etc.
- New approaches of urban planning and governance: Right to the City, direct democracy, participation, citizen science, etc.
Sustainable, responsible, universal, and healthy mobility
Sustainable, responsible, universal, and healthy mobility
- Modelling the use of bicycles, Personal Mobility Vehicles (PMV) and pedestrian mobility: structural layout of sidewalk networks, congestion, routes, walkability, dependent factors, safety, etc.
- Safety and efficiency view through digitalization, artificial intelligence, remote sensing techniques, etc.
- Mobility as a service. Challenges of new MaaS platforms, new governance models, interaction with public and private transport models, autonomous vehicles.
Citizen health and their relation to the urban environment
Citizen health and their relation to the urban environment
- Healthy mobility: active mobility, urban epidemics (including addictions), public and green spaces, state-of-the-art in Barcelona, political projects, etc.
- Environmental pollution (air pollution, noise, asbestos) and implications to the citizens.
- Contribution at urban scale to global and planetary health.