Pablo Martí Ciriquián
Biographic Data
| ID | 3494837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Martí Ciriquián |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo Martí |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciriquián |
| SIGNATURE | CIRIQUIÁN P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alicante |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6877-784X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Face-to-face interviews and location-based social networks
Sustainable urban dynamics in coastal cities
This research conducts a comparative urban analysis of two coastal cities with analogous tourism models situated in distinct geographical regions: Balneário Camboriú in Brazil and Benidorm in Spain. The study delves into two critical urban phenomena impacting the sustainability of tourist cities, utilising social network data to gather insights into economic and urban activities (Google Places) and spatio-temporal patterns of citizen presence (Tw…
The role of successful public spaces in historic centres. Insights from social media data
This study contributes to the existing knowledge on the aspects that are commonly found in socially preferred public spaces. Specifically, it provides a thematic characterisation of specific factors that may play a critical role in their success. User-generated data is used for identifying, characterising, and comparing the most successful public spaces in the historic centres of four cities in the central Spanish Mediterranean Arc. Data from Goo…
Quantifying the relationship between public sentiment and urban environment in Barcelona
Public sentiment provides an important social reference for urban management and planning. The relationship between public sentiment and a single type of land use has yielded stable results in previous studies. Hitherto, there has been relatively little research on the correlation of the entire urban environment with public sentiment. Based on the unit of statistical area in Barcelona city, this research uses Twitter sentiment to represent public…
The Geography of Social Media Data in Urban Areas
This research sheds light on the relationship between the presence of location-based social network (LBSN) data and other economic and demographic variables in the city of Valencia (Spain). For that purpose, a comparison is made between location patterns of geolocated data from various social networks (i.e., Google Places, Foursquare, Twitter, Airbnb and Idealista) and statistical information such as land value, average gross income, and populati…
Taking the urban tourist activity pulse through digital footprints
An insight on urban tourism-related phenomena is provided in this study by analysing open and volunteered user generated content. A reference framework method is proposed and applied to an illustrative case study to meet a twofold objective: to identify Tourist Activity Centre – TAC – areas based on their functional character – sightseeing, shopping, eating and nightlife; and, to obtain an up-to-date fine-grain characterization of the most dynami…
Revisiting the Spatial Definition of Neighborhood Boundaries
This study revisits the debate surrounding the definition of neighborhood boundaries by addressing the disconnect between the city’s Administrative Neighborhoods and its functional organization. A method is proposed for dividing the city into more meaningful units through the spatial distribution of urban activities by retrieving data from Google Places. The dataset was pre-processed and spatially divided into Functional Clusters. A comparison be…
Understanding city dynamics
Research that tackles the pedagogical use of geolocated social media as an investigative tool for understanding cities in Geography and Urban Studies higher education programs has not been fully exploited. This study contributes by addressing the transferability of these sources as a research medium for enhancing student knowledge of urban phenomena. A collaborative problem-based learning activity was conducted in a third-year compulsory Urban St…
Keeping mass tourism destinations sustainable via urban design
The city of Benidorm is the most renowned mass tourism destination on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It has been recently acknowledged as a sustainable urban development to support the mass‐tourism industry; however, Benidorm had received strong criticism during many years, mainly because of its striking urban image. The aim of this paper is to showcase the relevant role of sustainable urban design for the development of an effective coastal to…
Green infrastructure planning
The design of efficient Green Infrastructure —GI— systems is a key issue to achieve sustainable development city planning goals in the twenty-first century. This study’s main contribution is the identification of potential GI elements to better align the environmental, social and economic perspectives in the GI design by including information about the use, activities, preferences and presence of people. To achieve this, user generated content fr…
Social Media data
Analysing the city through data retrieved from Location Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has received considerable attention as a promising method for applied research. However, the use of these data is not without its challenges and has given rise to a stream of polemical arguments over the validity of this source of information. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities as well as some of the limitations and biases associated with the …
Identifying opportunity places for urban regeneration through LBSNs
The use of location based social networks—LBSNs—for diagnosing phenomena in contemporary cities is evolving at a fast pace. However, methodological frameworks for informing urban regeneration at a fine-grain neighborhood scale through LBSNs is still by and large an unchartered territory, which this research seeks to address. This research bridges the knowledge gap by proposing a method to identify urban opportunity spaces for urban regeneration t…
Frentes marítimo-fluviales en ciudades españolas
En los últimos treinta años muchas ciudades españolas han abordado la renovación de sus frentes marítimos y fluviales, enfrentándose tanto a la obsolescencia de las actividades y usos que esos espacios acogían, como a la desconexión con los tejidos urbanos colindantes. Una selección de casos de estudio muestra la diversidad de estrategias que, con carácter general, logran la mejora a diferentes escalas de cuatro aspectos importantes: i) la conect…
Assessment tools for urban sustainability policies in Spanish Mediterranean tourist areas
Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas
Locative social media networks as open sources of data allow researchers and professionals to acknowledge which city places are preferred, used and livable. Following this hypothesis, this paper proposes a methodology to identify successful public spaces – plazas – through the location-based social media network Foursquare and to analyze their urban position using morphological and historical cartographies. The overall methodology comprises three…
Temporary population estimates of mass tourism destinations
Turismo residencial de extranjeros en la Costa Blanca
La costa de la provincia de Alicante, la denominada Costa Blanca, ha experimentado una importante transformación territorial en el periodo 1990 y 2010 debido, fundamentalmente, al crecimiento urbano y la considerable presencia de población noreuropea que se asienta en la zona costera con fines turísticos. En este sentido, con el objetivo de analizar las cualidades de algunos de los escenarios ocupados, se estudia tanto el proceso de ocupación com…
Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas
Locative social media networks as open sources of data allow researchers and professionals to acknowledge which city places are preferred, used and livable. Following this hypothesis, this paper proposes a methodology to identify successful public spaces – plazas – through the location-based social media network Foursquare and to analyze their urban position using morphological and historical cartographies. The overall methodology comprises three…
Identifying opportunity places for urban regeneration through LBSNs
The use of location based social networks—LBSNs—for diagnosing phenomena in contemporary cities is evolving at a fast pace. However, methodological frameworks for informing urban regeneration at a fine-grain neighborhood scale through LBSNs is still by and large an unchartered territory, which this research seeks to address. This research bridges the knowledge gap by proposing a method to identify urban opportunity spaces for urban regeneration t…
Quantifying the relationship between public sentiment and urban environment in Barcelona
Public sentiment provides an important social reference for urban management and planning. The relationship between public sentiment and a single type of land use has yielded stable results in previous studies. Hitherto, there has been relatively little research on the correlation of the entire urban environment with public sentiment. Based on the unit of statistical area in Barcelona city, this research uses Twitter sentiment to represent public…
Keeping mass tourism destinations sustainable via urban design
The city of Benidorm is the most renowned mass tourism destination on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It has been recently acknowledged as a sustainable urban development to support the mass‐tourism industry; however, Benidorm had received strong criticism during many years, mainly because of its striking urban image. The aim of this paper is to showcase the relevant role of sustainable urban design for the development of an effective coastal to…
Face-to-face interviews and location-based social networks
Understanding city dynamics
Research that tackles the pedagogical use of geolocated social media as an investigative tool for understanding cities in Geography and Urban Studies higher education programs has not been fully exploited. This study contributes by addressing the transferability of these sources as a research medium for enhancing student knowledge of urban phenomena. A collaborative problem-based learning activity was conducted in a third-year compulsory Urban St…
Frentes marítimo-fluviales en ciudades españolas
En los últimos treinta años muchas ciudades españolas han abordado la renovación de sus frentes marítimos y fluviales, enfrentándose tanto a la obsolescencia de las actividades y usos que esos espacios acogían, como a la desconexión con los tejidos urbanos colindantes. Una selección de casos de estudio muestra la diversidad de estrategias que, con carácter general, logran la mejora a diferentes escalas de cuatro aspectos importantes: i) la conect…
Assessment tools for urban sustainability policies in Spanish Mediterranean tourist areas
Temporary population estimates of mass tourism destinations
Turismo residencial de extranjeros en la Costa Blanca
La costa de la provincia de Alicante, la denominada Costa Blanca, ha experimentado una importante transformación territorial en el periodo 1990 y 2010 debido, fundamentalmente, al crecimiento urbano y la considerable presencia de población noreuropea que se asienta en la zona costera con fines turísticos. En este sentido, con el objetivo de analizar las cualidades de algunos de los escenarios ocupados, se estudia tanto el proceso de ocupación com…
Assessment tools for urban sustainability policies in Spanish Mediterranean tourist areas
Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas
Locative social media networks as open sources of data allow researchers and professionals to acknowledge which city places are preferred, used and livable. Following this hypothesis, this paper proposes a methodology to identify successful public spaces – plazas – through the location-based social media network Foursquare and to analyze their urban position using morphological and historical cartographies. The overall methodology comprises three…
Temporary population estimates of mass tourism destinations
Frentes marítimo-fluviales en ciudades españolas
En los últimos treinta años muchas ciudades españolas han abordado la renovación de sus frentes marítimos y fluviales, enfrentándose tanto a la obsolescencia de las actividades y usos que esos espacios acogían, como a la desconexión con los tejidos urbanos colindantes. Una selección de casos de estudio muestra la diversidad de estrategias que, con carácter general, logran la mejora a diferentes escalas de cuatro aspectos importantes: i) la conect…
Social Media data
Analysing the city through data retrieved from Location Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has received considerable attention as a promising method for applied research. However, the use of these data is not without its challenges and has given rise to a stream of polemical arguments over the validity of this source of information. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities as well as some of the limitations and biases associated with the …
Identifying opportunity places for urban regeneration through LBSNs
The use of location based social networks—LBSNs—for diagnosing phenomena in contemporary cities is evolving at a fast pace. However, methodological frameworks for informing urban regeneration at a fine-grain neighborhood scale through LBSNs is still by and large an unchartered territory, which this research seeks to address. This research bridges the knowledge gap by proposing a method to identify urban opportunity spaces for urban regeneration t…
Keeping mass tourism destinations sustainable via urban design
The city of Benidorm is the most renowned mass tourism destination on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It has been recently acknowledged as a sustainable urban development to support the mass‐tourism industry; however, Benidorm had received strong criticism during many years, mainly because of its striking urban image. The aim of this paper is to showcase the relevant role of sustainable urban design for the development of an effective coastal to…
Green infrastructure planning
The design of efficient Green Infrastructure —GI— systems is a key issue to achieve sustainable development city planning goals in the twenty-first century. This study’s main contribution is the identification of potential GI elements to better align the environmental, social and economic perspectives in the GI design by including information about the use, activities, preferences and presence of people. To achieve this, user generated content fr…
The Geography of Social Media Data in Urban Areas
This research sheds light on the relationship between the presence of location-based social network (LBSN) data and other economic and demographic variables in the city of Valencia (Spain). For that purpose, a comparison is made between location patterns of geolocated data from various social networks (i.e., Google Places, Foursquare, Twitter, Airbnb and Idealista) and statistical information such as land value, average gross income, and populati…
Taking the urban tourist activity pulse through digital footprints
An insight on urban tourism-related phenomena is provided in this study by analysing open and volunteered user generated content. A reference framework method is proposed and applied to an illustrative case study to meet a twofold objective: to identify Tourist Activity Centre – TAC – areas based on their functional character – sightseeing, shopping, eating and nightlife; and, to obtain an up-to-date fine-grain characterization of the most dynami…
Revisiting the Spatial Definition of Neighborhood Boundaries
This study revisits the debate surrounding the definition of neighborhood boundaries by addressing the disconnect between the city’s Administrative Neighborhoods and its functional organization. A method is proposed for dividing the city into more meaningful units through the spatial distribution of urban activities by retrieving data from Google Places. The dataset was pre-processed and spatially divided into Functional Clusters. A comparison be…
Understanding city dynamics
Research that tackles the pedagogical use of geolocated social media as an investigative tool for understanding cities in Geography and Urban Studies higher education programs has not been fully exploited. This study contributes by addressing the transferability of these sources as a research medium for enhancing student knowledge of urban phenomena. A collaborative problem-based learning activity was conducted in a third-year compulsory Urban St…
Quantifying the relationship between public sentiment and urban environment in Barcelona
Public sentiment provides an important social reference for urban management and planning. The relationship between public sentiment and a single type of land use has yielded stable results in previous studies. Hitherto, there has been relatively little research on the correlation of the entire urban environment with public sentiment. Based on the unit of statistical area in Barcelona city, this research uses Twitter sentiment to represent public…
The role of successful public spaces in historic centres. Insights from social media data
This study contributes to the existing knowledge on the aspects that are commonly found in socially preferred public spaces. Specifically, it provides a thematic characterisation of specific factors that may play a critical role in their success. User-generated data is used for identifying, characterising, and comparing the most successful public spaces in the historic centres of four cities in the central Spanish Mediterranean Arc. Data from Goo…
Sustainable urban dynamics in coastal cities
This research conducts a comparative urban analysis of two coastal cities with analogous tourism models situated in distinct geographical regions: Balneário Camboriú in Brazil and Benidorm in Spain. The study delves into two critical urban phenomena impacting the sustainability of tourist cities, utilising social network data to gather insights into economic and urban activities (Google Places) and spatio-temporal patterns of citizen presence (Tw…
Face-to-face interviews and location-based social networks
Geography (16 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (8 works) · Regional science (7 works) · Social media (7 works) · World Wide Web (7 works) · Cartography (5 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (5 works)