Leticia Serrano-Estrada
Biographic Data
| ID | 3556317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leticia Serrano-Estrada |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leticia |
| FAMILY NAME | Serrano-Estrada |
| SIGNATURE | SERRANO-ESTRADA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alicante |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7466-1974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assessing parallel urban dynamics through local-scale morphological and activity indicators in German and Spanish cities
This research examines whether contemporary cities exhibit parallel urban phenomena, understood as similar socio-spatial dynamics emerging independently across different geographical contexts. While recent research introduces quantitative indicators to address urban morphology, such as plot area, compactness, and land-use ratios, such approaches typically rely on citywide metrics and rarely address finer spatial scales or relationships between mo…
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…
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…
Critical thinking
This study addresses the problem of facilitating critical thinking about the real-world complexities that underlie the Sustainable Development (SD) concept among university students of architecture. The Socratic Seminar was adopted because of its characteristic exploratory questions that are closely aligned to the question-types used by the lecturer in previous years during student-requested one-to-one tutorial sessions aimed at clarifying SD con…
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…
La geolocalización en Twitter como herramienta de análisis del impacto de la innovación en el País Vasco
El objetivo del presente trabajo es evaluar el impacto de la innovación en un ámbito geográfico a partir de datos de redes sociales. Para la obtención de este fin, se desarrolla una estrategia de estudio en la que se enmarca el área geográfica correspondiente a la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, región española con un sistema de innovación asentado, y de la cual se extraen datos geolocalizados de Twitter. Se analiza la presencia en los tuits d…
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…
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…
Percepción y uso social de una transformación urbana a través del social media. Las setas gigantes de la calle San Francisco
El análisis del espacio público urbano a partir de su dimensión perceptual ha sido, tradicionalmente, un recurso fundamental para reconocer qué características físicas lo diferencian y le confieren actividad y vitalidad. Esta aproximación es particularmente relevante en entornos urbanos transformados. Conocer la percepción social sobre el espacio público permite valorar en qué medida las acciones realizadas modifican las dinámicas urbanas. Bajo e…
La construcción de barrios obreros
Entre los siglos XIX y XX, se desarrolló en España una intensa polémica sobre la conveniencia o no de construir barrios obreros. La Sociedad Central de Arquitectos -SCA- asumió inicialmente un papel protagonista, incluyendo el debate en el programa de su primer Congreso Nacional y liderándolo durante una década. Conforme avanzó la política social del Estado, el Instituto de Reformas Sociales - IRS- confirió al debate una mayor proyección internac…
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…
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…
Assessment tools for urban sustainability policies in Spanish Mediterranean tourist areas
Percepción y uso social de una transformación urbana a través del social media. Las setas gigantes de la calle San Francisco
El análisis del espacio público urbano a partir de su dimensión perceptual ha sido, tradicionalmente, un recurso fundamental para reconocer qué características físicas lo diferencian y le confieren actividad y vitalidad. Esta aproximación es particularmente relevante en entornos urbanos transformados. Conocer la percepción social sobre el espacio público permite valorar en qué medida las acciones realizadas modifican las dinámicas urbanas. Bajo e…
La construcción de barrios obreros
Entre los siglos XIX y XX, se desarrolló en España una intensa polémica sobre la conveniencia o no de construir barrios obreros. La Sociedad Central de Arquitectos -SCA- asumió inicialmente un papel protagonista, incluyendo el debate en el programa de su primer Congreso Nacional y liderándolo durante una década. Conforme avanzó la política social del Estado, el Instituto de Reformas Sociales - IRS- confirió al debate una mayor proyección internac…
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…
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…
La geolocalización en Twitter como herramienta de análisis del impacto de la innovación en el País Vasco
El objetivo del presente trabajo es evaluar el impacto de la innovación en un ámbito geográfico a partir de datos de redes sociales. Para la obtención de este fin, se desarrolla una estrategia de estudio en la que se enmarca el área geográfica correspondiente a la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, región española con un sistema de innovación asentado, y de la cual se extraen datos geolocalizados de Twitter. Se analiza la presencia en los tuits d…
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…
Critical thinking
This study addresses the problem of facilitating critical thinking about the real-world complexities that underlie the Sustainable Development (SD) concept among university students of architecture. The Socratic Seminar was adopted because of its characteristic exploratory questions that are closely aligned to the question-types used by the lecturer in previous years during student-requested one-to-one tutorial sessions aimed at clarifying SD con…
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…
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
Assessing parallel urban dynamics through local-scale morphological and activity indicators in German and Spanish cities
This research examines whether contemporary cities exhibit parallel urban phenomena, understood as similar socio-spatial dynamics emerging independently across different geographical contexts. While recent research introduces quantitative indicators to address urban morphology, such as plot area, compactness, and land-use ratios, such approaches typically rely on citywide metrics and rarely address finer spatial scales or relationships between mo…
Geography (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (7 works) · Social media (7 works) · World Wide Web (7 works) · Regional science (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 works) · Art (4 works)