We gather, analyse and represent urban data to understand the behavior and evolution of distinct issues related to cities in order to make urban planning and management proposals to improve cities; from morphological, economic, social and tourist studies to master plans.
We provide data analysis, data products, data platforms, cartographies and urban planning services for communities, public bodies and companies from cities and regions of all sizes.
Nocturnal Landscapes
The exhibition Nocturnal Landscapes: Urban Flows of Global Metropolises observes and analyzes cities at night from an interdisciplinary perspective. Today, in a growing urban context, there are very few studies that aim to describe how the cities are and behave…
Land use plan Gran de Sant Andreu
A land-use plan to harmonise a unique urban morphology with economic activity The renovation of the urbanization of the main street of Sant Andreu, a civic and structuring centre of the neighborhood, will substantially transform its current configuration and surroundings…
Montjuïc Action Plan
The action plan will drive the future of the Montjuïc park Barcelona City Council has carried out a process of work and debate with the maximum number of actors involved in the Montjuïc mountain that, with all its richness and…
Morphologies of tourism
A description of the impact of tourism in Barcelona Morphologies of Tourism describes the tourist impact in Barcelona by analysing soft data with the aim of generating both a public monitoring infrastructure (being critical with official sources) and a series of documents to…
Barcelona nocturnal landscape
A report to define the structure of nocturnal landscape in Barcelona
Ciutat Vella’s land-use plan
Big Data, KDD and Citizen Participation to Ensure Coexistence between Economic Activity and Citizens Quality of Life
Touristification in Madrid
How can we measure the impact of tourism in a city? The project Touristification is a new approach to define the gentrification caused by tourism in the city of Madrid.
Geographies of Innovation in the metropolitan area of Barcelona
Can urban fabric foster innovation? This research developed in the metropolitan area of Barcelona demonstrates the correlation between urban fabric and the emergence of innovation economy.
Last mile
While we reduce the impacts of people displacements through the implementation of collective mobility systems, the mobility of things is strongly increasing due to the rise of e-commerce, estimated at 25% per year. We need to know the numbers with…
Pere IV
The best past is not the shortest. A survey to understand how citizens choose their path in a neighbourhood
Morphologies of Tourism
‘Morphologies of Tourism’ is an analitical description of the current state of tourism in Barcelona through its causes and impacts.
Rethinking Barcelona Urban Model
Which layers of information are necessary to rethink the urban model of a city?
Ciutat Vella Data Atlas
The Data Atlas is a collection of 200 cartographies that explore urban uses and their conflicts in the historic center of Barcelona (district of Ciutat Vella).
Commercial centralities in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
The Atlas of the Commercial Centralities in the AMB (to be released) aims to analyse the distribution of commercial activities in the metropolitan of Barcelona. We have updated cartographic databases containing the location of more than 300.000 registers. We have…
The Digital Divide in the city of Barcelona
Access to knowledge and information has changed radically in the last 20 years. The universal nature, speed and hyper-connectivity of the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have transformed our way of thinking, living and communicating with our environment. The…
Open Papers
In the context of the Open Data revolution, we are experiencing a Data Divide affecting the most vulnerable segments of society. Today, extreme poverty is a question still to be digitised in almost every city in the world. As people…
dataWar
The aim of dataWar project is to find new strategies to map territories in conflict situations. During wars or humanitarian crises, data shall not be trusted. The quality of information could become very poor, partial or even false. The opposing…
BBVA urban oportunities
Este conjunto de cartografías explora las posibilidades que ofrecen los datos acumulados de las transacciones realizadas mediante tarjetas de crédito que el equipo de BBVA Data & Analytics recoge de los datáfonos de los comercios. La información tratada si bien…
Barcelona Metropolitan Area: a capital point in the world
The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) plays a leading role in the context of Europe. Its strategic geographic position and population density are supported by a network of transport (railway, road, sea and air) and communications that interconnects it to the…
Mobility in Barcelona metropolitan area
The mobility of people and goods in the metropolis has increased greatly in the last forty years, while it has gone from a radial pattern centred in Barcelona to a configuration of the road network articulated from municipal sub-centres. The…
Geographies of Innovation in Barcelona
The research ‘Geographies of Innovation’ aims to define what form innovation takes in urban areas, exploring spatial relations between innovative initiatives to identify success stories and potential knowledge transfer. The research specifically examines the necessary urban conditions to promote innovation,…
Barcelona Dynamics
‘Barcelona Dynamics’ is a collection of 24 cartographies analyzing the growing complexity of the metropolitan territory of Barcelona over the past 40 years. The Metropolitan Authority of Barcelona (AMB) is currently drafting a new Metropolitan Urban Master Plan (PDU) -the…
atNight
Cities are complex organisms in flux, requiring variable representations and interpretations. Specifically, night-time turns into a moment of revelation and radicalization of certain urban phenomena. For instance, whereas monuments shape the identity of many contemporary cities, at night these main…
