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Prof. Pablo Martí
University of Alicante (Spain)

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Published: 19 August 2021 in Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
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As of today, many studies have demonstrated the possibilities that geolocated data from social networks have for the study of urban phenomena. This chapter offers a retrospective and panoramic view of a selection of social networks that have been used to understand a wide range of urban dynamics. Findings from this review and previous experiences evidence that the social networks often selected and used for the purpose of assessing city dynamics share key characteristics such as (i) the locative properties; (ii) the data privacy and availability; (iii) the data potentiality to inform about specific phenomena related to the urban environment; and, (iv) the fact that they are mobile device-based platforms and, thus, users are considered as sensors, and their traces as crowd-sourced sensory information. Five exemplary social networks that meet these four conditions are dealt with in detail (Google Places, Foursquare, Twitter, Instagram and Airbnb), highlighting the opportunities and challenges they portray with respect to data collection and quality for the purpose of urban studies.

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Álvaro Bernabeu-Bautista; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Pablo Martí. Social Media Data Collection and Quality for Urban Studies. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 2021, 229 -248.

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Álvaro Bernabeu-Bautista, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Pablo Martí. Social Media Data Collection and Quality for Urban Studies. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. 2021; ():229-248.

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Álvaro Bernabeu-Bautista; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Pablo Martí. 2021. "Social Media Data Collection and Quality for Urban Studies." Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies , no. : 229-248.

Research article
Published: 01 July 2021 in Journal of Urban Technology
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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 between functional and administrative subdivisions of the city was undertaken, from which three overall conclusions could be drawn. First, a function-based city partition allows economically active urban areas to become the neighborhood’s center, thereby creating a polynuclear neighborhood structure that would potentially encourage greater cross-movement of people throughout the city. Second, the specialization of activities becomes more evident in Functional Clusters than in Administrative Neighborhoods. Third, access to up-to-date data makes possible a timely diagnosis of the quantity and diversity of urban activities—i.e., economic activities, services, and facilities—through Google Places data. The value of this contribution is to inform urban decision-making and policies in order to better balance the provision of a neighborhood’s economic activity.

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Pablo Martí; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Jesús López Baeza. Revisiting the Spatial Definition of Neighborhood Boundaries: Functional Clusters versus Administrative Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Technology 2021, 1 -22.

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Pablo Martí, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Jesús López Baeza. Revisiting the Spatial Definition of Neighborhood Boundaries: Functional Clusters versus Administrative Neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Technology. 2021; ():1-22.

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Pablo Martí; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Jesús López Baeza. 2021. "Revisiting the Spatial Definition of Neighborhood Boundaries: Functional Clusters versus Administrative Neighborhoods." Journal of Urban Technology , no. : 1-22.

Journal article
Published: 30 November 2020 in Revista Urbano
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Resumen Los ejes viarios metropolitanos son espacios de centralidad urbana y de oportunidad para promover una mejor conectividad entre las distintas partes del continuo urbano. En este sentido, la caracterización funcional de seis ejes representativos en Madrid, Barcelona, París, Londres, Nueva York y Ciudad de México permite obtener un diagnóstico actual sobre la densidad y diversidad de actividades económicas y urbanas, con el fin identificar aspectos clave sobre los que incidir para mejorar su estructura funcional y social. Para ello, se propone un método que adopta los datos geolocalizados de la red social Google Places como principal fuente de información. De la investigación se deducen importantes similitudes en el carácter funcional de los ejes, entre otras, la predominancia de las actividades relacionadas con los servicios y el comercio o la mayor diversidad de actividades económicas y urbanas en los espacios más centrales. Pero también se identifican diferencias, como son la especialización de determinadas actividades características en cada eje metropolitano o la diferencial relación entre la densidad de población y cantidad de actividades, tanto en términos de densidad como en cuantificación lineal. En definitiva, el método propuesto abre nuevas posibilidades para la planificación estratégica de actividades económicas y urbanas en ámbitos metropolitanos.

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Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Álvaro Bernabeu Bautista; Pablo Martí Ciriquián. Actividades económicas y urbanas en ejes estructurantes metropolitanos. La aportación de los datos geolocalizados de Google Places. Revista Urbano 2020, 23, 80 -97.

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Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Álvaro Bernabeu Bautista, Pablo Martí Ciriquián. Actividades económicas y urbanas en ejes estructurantes metropolitanos. La aportación de los datos geolocalizados de Google Places. Revista Urbano. 2020; 23 (42):80-97.

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Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Álvaro Bernabeu Bautista; Pablo Martí Ciriquián. 2020. "Actividades económicas y urbanas en ejes estructurantes metropolitanos. La aportación de los datos geolocalizados de Google Places." Revista Urbano 23, no. 42: 80-97.

Journal article
Published: 18 November 2020 in Land
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The Huerta is recognised as one of the 13 specific agricultural landscapes in Europe, present in only three Mediterranean countries, namely Spain, Italy, and Greece. In the case of Spain, three areas fall within the established Huerta agricultural classification: the Huertas de Valencia, Murcia, and Vega Baja. While all of them share common landscape features, each Huerta has distinguishing singularities which are approached through two perspectives: firstly, the structural tangible elements, related to functional networks—water distribution, pathways networks, settlement patterns, and the agricultural production system; and secondly, the role of the intangible components—connotations of the word Huerta, water management, canal and path upkeep rules, and the administration of these territories. The analysis of the tangible elements and intangible components in the three Spanish Huertas shows these territories as complex and balanced systems that have historically counterbalanced the environmental drawbacks in one of the most arid European regions. Despite being a highly appreciated environmental and productive asset, these Huertas are under intense pressure from urban development in highly urbanized metropolitan areas. This study shows Huertas’ uniqueness through their historical role in the territorial planning and management strategies at the local level, finally depicting Huertas as a present strategical opportunity for reaching environmental goals in peri-urban areas.

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Pablo Martí; Clara García-Mayor. The Huerta Agricultural Landscape in the Spanish Mediterranean Arc: One Landscape, Two Perspectives, Three Specific Huertas. Land 2020, 9, 460 .

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Pablo Martí, Clara García-Mayor. The Huerta Agricultural Landscape in the Spanish Mediterranean Arc: One Landscape, Two Perspectives, Three Specific Huertas. Land. 2020; 9 (11):460.

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Pablo Martí; Clara García-Mayor. 2020. "The Huerta Agricultural Landscape in the Spanish Mediterranean Arc: One Landscape, Two Perspectives, Three Specific Huertas." Land 9, no. 11: 460.

Journal article
Published: 13 October 2020 in Applied Sciences
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This work examines the implementation of energy labelling by the residential real estate sector. First, it considers the interest by real estate sellers in not publishing energy certification information, and then, it quantifies the impact of the housing’s energy certification on the asking price. The results are compared with those obtained from other studies conducted in distinct European countries. The study’s final sample was collected, including information from 52,939 multi-family homes placed on the real estate market in the province of Alicante (Spain). One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used, as well as an ordinary least squares regression model. This study highlights the fact that, in the current market, owners and sellers have no incentive to reveal the energy certification, since this permits them to sell homes with low energy ratings at prices similar to those of more energy efficient homes. In addition, it was found that homes with better energy ratings (letters A and B) are not sold at higher prices than homes with other rating letters, unlike the case of other European countries that were examined.

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Maria-Francisca Cespedes-Lopez; Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia; V. Raul Perez-Sanchez; Pablo Marti-Ciriquian. The Influence of Energy Certification on Housing Sales Prices in the Province of Alicante (Spain). Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 7129 .

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Maria-Francisca Cespedes-Lopez, Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia, V. Raul Perez-Sanchez, Pablo Marti-Ciriquian. The Influence of Energy Certification on Housing Sales Prices in the Province of Alicante (Spain). Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (20):7129.

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Maria-Francisca Cespedes-Lopez; Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia; V. Raul Perez-Sanchez; Pablo Marti-Ciriquian. 2020. "The Influence of Energy Certification on Housing Sales Prices in the Province of Alicante (Spain)." Applied Sciences 10, no. 20: 7129.

Journal article
Published: 06 June 2020 in Land Use Policy
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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 from Location Based Social Network —LBSN— Foursquare is used as a complementary data source. This involved the construction of an interdisciplinary correlation framework, between the Landscape Ecology principles and the GI elements, that included the classification of Foursquare data into grouping types. The classification considered the potential role of Foursquare venues in the GI network. Valencia City in Spain served as an illustrative case study to test the validity of the proposed method. The results suggest that Foursquare can provide a valuable insight on user perceptions of potential GI elements. Moreover, the findings indicate that user generated content from LBSNs like Foursquare can serve as a complementary tool for analysing the dynamics of urban outdoor spaces to assess GI network, thereby facilitating more effective urban planning and contributing to the social sustainability of the city.

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Pablo Martí; Clara García-Mayor; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Green infrastructure planning: Unveiling meaningful spaces through Foursquare users’ preferences. Land Use Policy 2020, 97, 104641 .

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Pablo Martí, Clara García-Mayor, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Green infrastructure planning: Unveiling meaningful spaces through Foursquare users’ preferences. Land Use Policy. 2020; 97 ():104641.

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Pablo Martí; Clara García-Mayor; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. 2020. "Green infrastructure planning: Unveiling meaningful spaces through Foursquare users’ preferences." Land Use Policy 97, no. : 104641.

Journal article
Published: 24 January 2020 in Sustainability
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The reuse of Spain’s obsolete railway infrastructure as greenways, namely vías verdes, reflects a Europe-wide territorial strategy, which has resulted in the refurbishment of more than 2500 km of abandoned Spanish railway lines. The potential of these vías verdes as strategical green infrastructure linkers between settlements and their peripheral natural environments is assessed in two Spanish case studies of Girona and Alicante. The territorial elements that affect vías verdes (natural landscape areas, urban settlements and population) are obtained from public administration sources. Additionally, users’ activity through the Wikilock social network is considered. The spatial analysis shows the role of vías verdes in terms of landscape value, accessibility and planning strategy: the itineraries of the vías verdes connect different valuable natural areas with diverse landscape patterns in near proximity to urban nuclei; more than 65% of the population can access a vía verde in less than 200 metres. Moreover, it offers the opportunity to complete a network which could link urban nuclei and their natural periphery through the refurbishment of the remaining stretches. Despite the fact that the full potential of these vías verdes as strategical greenways has not been fully considered in the green infrastructure planning, these corridors could meet environmental, cultural and social sustainable goals.

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Clara García-Mayor; Pablo Martí; Manuel Castaño; Álvaro Bernabeu-Bautista. The Unexploited Potential of Converting Rail Tracks to Greenways: The Spanish Vías Verdes. Sustainability 2020, 12, 881 .

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Clara García-Mayor, Pablo Martí, Manuel Castaño, Álvaro Bernabeu-Bautista. The Unexploited Potential of Converting Rail Tracks to Greenways: The Spanish Vías Verdes. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (3):881.

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Clara García-Mayor; Pablo Martí; Manuel Castaño; Álvaro Bernabeu-Bautista. 2020. "The Unexploited Potential of Converting Rail Tracks to Greenways: The Spanish Vías Verdes." Sustainability 12, no. 3: 881.

Articles
Published: 03 January 2020 in Current Issues in Tourism
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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 dynamic zones in an urban context. Instasights Heatmaps and data from Location Based Social Networks – Foursquare, Google Places, Twitter and Airbnb – were used to depict tourist urban activity. This reproducible method transcends Instasights generic visualization of popular areas by exploiting the benefits of overlapping LBSN data sources. This method facilitates a granular analysis of tourism-related places of interest and makes headway in bridging the gap between traditional approaches and user preferences, revealed through digital footprints, for urban analysis. The results indicate the potential of this method as a complementary tool for urban planning decision-making.

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Pablo Martí; Clara García-Mayor; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Taking the urban tourist activity pulse through digital footprints. Current Issues in Tourism 2020, 24, 157 -176.

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Pablo Martí, Clara García-Mayor, Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Taking the urban tourist activity pulse through digital footprints. Current Issues in Tourism. 2020; 24 (2):157-176.

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Pablo Martí; Clara García-Mayor; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. 2020. "Taking the urban tourist activity pulse through digital footprints." Current Issues in Tourism 24, no. 2: 157-176.

Journal article
Published: 12 December 2019 in Investigaciones Geográficas
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Los procesos de globalización están provocando una nueva reestructuración de la división internacional del trabajo, en el que las viejas fronteras, sometidas a intensos procesos de cambio, alteran su función de aislar, para convertirse, en ocasiones, en puentes de intercambio. Es un proceso selectivo, que endurece los flujos de mano de obra y mercancías y favorece el tránsito de capitales. La frontera de Melilla (España) y Nador (Marruecos), pese al llamativo drama humano del control migratorio, se convierte en oportunidades para el capital trasnacional, precisamente por el desequilibrio socioeconómico existente. A partir de análisis cartográficos de densidades, del mercado laboral y de la oferta y demanda de servicios, se comprueba la formación de una región funcional transfronteriza, cuya forma urbana tiende a la conurbación, jerarquizada por Melilla, sin que existan planes de integración, comunes en el proceso de reformulación de las fronteras dentro de la Unión Europea. Se concluye que la frontera asimétrica es el motor de la economía de una amplia región transfronteriza, desprovista de otros recursos, conforme con un enfoque geoeconómico que explota (y mantiene) la desigualdad, y que la forma urbana se asemeja al modelo de los complejos urbanos transfronterizos latinoamericanos. El reconocimiento de esta realidad es básico para el desarrollo de futuras estrategias de cohesión e integración supraestatales, y para la puesta en marcha de planes de gobernanza conjunta.

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Gabino Ponce Herrero; Pablo Martí Ciriquián. El complejo urbano transfronterizo Melilla-Nador. Investigaciones Geográficas 2019, 101 .

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Gabino Ponce Herrero, Pablo Martí Ciriquián. El complejo urbano transfronterizo Melilla-Nador. Investigaciones Geográficas. 2019; (72):101.

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Gabino Ponce Herrero; Pablo Martí Ciriquián. 2019. "El complejo urbano transfronterizo Melilla-Nador." Investigaciones Geográficas , no. 72: 101.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2019 in ACE: Architecture, City and Environment
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Pablo Martí Ciriquián; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Los datos geolocalizados de las redes sociales en el estudio de cuestiones urbanas complejas: cinco temas, cinco redes. ACE: Architecture, City and Environment 2019, 14, 83 .

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Pablo Martí Ciriquián, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Los datos geolocalizados de las redes sociales en el estudio de cuestiones urbanas complejas: cinco temas, cinco redes. ACE: Architecture, City and Environment. 2019; 14 (41):83.

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Pablo Martí Ciriquián; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. 2019. "Los datos geolocalizados de las redes sociales en el estudio de cuestiones urbanas complejas: cinco temas, cinco redes." ACE: Architecture, City and Environment 14, no. 41: 83.

Journal article
Published: 28 September 2019 in ZARCH
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La información geolocalizada generada en las redes sociales, producto de la socialización virtual, ofrece un amplio panorama de posibilidades para el estudio de fenómenos urbanos que atañen a las ciudades del presente. Se trata de huellas digitales de distinta naturaleza, compartidas pública y voluntariamente que, en gran medida, son evidencia de la interacción individuo-entorno a escalas espaciotemporales anteriormente impensables, abriendo nuevos campos en el análisis e interpretación de fenómenos fugaces y mutables. Este trabajo recoge y analiza una muestra representativa de estudios realizados durante la última década que, a partir de los datos provenientes de redes sociales, se centran el análisis de fenómenos efímeros relacionados con la percepción, la socialización, la actividad urbana y la temporalidad, poniendo de manifiesto el gran potencial y la versatilidad de estos datos para complementar los estudios urbanos tradicionales.

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Almudena Nolasco Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano Estrada; Pablo Martí Ciriquián. Expresión de fenómenos urbanos efímeros a partir de las redes sociales. ZARCH 2019, 164 -177.

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Almudena Nolasco Cirugeda, Leticia Serrano Estrada, Pablo Martí Ciriquián. Expresión de fenómenos urbanos efímeros a partir de las redes sociales. ZARCH. 2019; (13):164-177.

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Almudena Nolasco Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano Estrada; Pablo Martí Ciriquián. 2019. "Expresión de fenómenos urbanos efímeros a partir de las redes sociales." ZARCH , no. 13: 164-177.

Journal article
Published: 26 February 2019 in Cities
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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 that involves pre-processing, analyzing and interpreting single and overlapped LBSN data. A two-fold perspective—people-based and place-based—is adopted. Data from four LBSNs—Foursquare, Twitter, Google Places and Airbnb—represent the people-based approach as it offers an insight into individual preferences, use and activities. The place-based approach is provided by an illustrative case study. Local unexpected nuances were gathered by the interlinking of data from different LBSNs, and opportunity places for urban regeneration have been recognized, as well as potential itineraries to boost urban liveliness and connectivity at both intra and inter- neighborhood scales. Findings show that overlapping data from various LBSNs enriches the analysis that would previously have relied on a single source.

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Pablo Martí; Clara García-Mayor; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Identifying opportunity places for urban regeneration through LBSNs. Cities 2019, 90, 191 -206.

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Pablo Martí, Clara García-Mayor, Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Identifying opportunity places for urban regeneration through LBSNs. Cities. 2019; 90 ():191-206.

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Pablo Martí; Clara García-Mayor; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. 2019. "Identifying opportunity places for urban regeneration through LBSNs." Cities 90, no. : 191-206.

Journal article
Published: 15 January 2019 in Sustainability
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After almost a decade of crisis, the housing market in Spain shows significant signs of recovery, with increases in both the average price and the number of sales transactions. Housing is the main asset for the majority of households, and it also has the most resources devoted to it, thus, when it comes to buying a residence, people do not only look at the asset’s intrinsic characteristics, but also consider other particularities such as the neighbourhood, accessibility to services, availability of public transport or adequate funding. The study aimed to analyse and quantify the relationship that exists between the asking price of second-hand housing on the market in Alicante and the attributes that characterise them. This was done using a multivariate analysis to estimate a hedonic pricing model by ordinary least squares and a quantile regression to analyse the impact of the characteristics in different price ranges. The results show the segmentation of the prices in the Alicante market, with higher prices in the northern coastal area over the southern and inland comarcas.

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Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia; Maria-Francisca Cespedes-Lopez; V. Raul Perez-Sanchez; Pablo Marti; Juan-Carlos Perez-Sanchez. Determinants of the Price of Housing in the Province of Alicante (Spain): Analysis Using Quantile Regression. Sustainability 2019, 11, 437 .

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Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia, Maria-Francisca Cespedes-Lopez, V. Raul Perez-Sanchez, Pablo Marti, Juan-Carlos Perez-Sanchez. Determinants of the Price of Housing in the Province of Alicante (Spain): Analysis Using Quantile Regression. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (2):437.

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Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia; Maria-Francisca Cespedes-Lopez; V. Raul Perez-Sanchez; Pablo Marti; Juan-Carlos Perez-Sanchez. 2019. "Determinants of the Price of Housing in the Province of Alicante (Spain): Analysis Using Quantile Regression." Sustainability 11, no. 2: 437.

Journal article
Published: 05 December 2018 in Sustainability
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Breakthrough changes in the rental market have occurred with the introduction of peer-to-peer accommodation services such as Airbnb. This phenomenon is attracting tourists who contribute to the sustainability of local trade and the economic development of the city. This research enriches the current debate on the range of factors that influence Airbnb accommodation prices. To that end, a method was developed to understand the relationship between Airbnb accommodation attributes and listing prices; and to consider variables related to the properties’ location and surrounding urban environment, considering the touristic characteristics of the four Spanish Mediterranean Arc cities selected as case study. A multivariable analysis technique is used for estimating a hedonic price model that adopts the ordinary least squares and the quantile regression methods. The findings obtained for the impact of location on listing prices are contrary to previous studies. In fact, accommodation prices increase incrementally by 1.3% per kilometer from the tourist area, which in all four cases are situated in the historic area of the city. However, at the same time, accommodation prices decrease incrementally as distance from the coastline increases. Lastly, results related to how the listings’ accommodation, host, and advertising characteristics impact Airbnb prices concur with previous studies.

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V. Raul Perez-Sanchez; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Pablo Marti; Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia. The What, Where, and Why of Airbnb Price Determinants. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4596 .

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V. Raul Perez-Sanchez, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Pablo Marti, Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia. The What, Where, and Why of Airbnb Price Determinants. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (12):4596.

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V. Raul Perez-Sanchez; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Pablo Marti; Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia. 2018. "The What, Where, and Why of Airbnb Price Determinants." Sustainability 10, no. 12: 4596.

Journal article
Published: 15 November 2018 in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
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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 collection and use of LBSN data from Foursquare, Twitter, Google Places, Instagram and Airbnb in the context of urban phenomena research. The most recent research that uses LBSN data to understand city dynamics is presented. A method is proposed for LBSN data retrieval, selection, classification and analysis. In addition, key thematic research lines are identified given the data variables offered by these LBSNs. A comprehensive and descriptive framework for the study of urban phenomena through LBSN data is the main contribution of this study.

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Pablo Martí; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda. Social Media data: Challenges, opportunities and limitations in urban studies. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 2018, 74, 161 -174.

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Pablo Martí, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda. Social Media data: Challenges, opportunities and limitations in urban studies. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2018; 74 ():161-174.

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Pablo Martí; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda. 2018. "Social Media data: Challenges, opportunities and limitations in urban studies." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 74, no. : 161-174.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2018 in Bitácora Urbano Territorial
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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 conectividad territorial y entre tramas urbanas; ii) la redistribución de equipamientos en la ciudad; iii) la regeneración ambiental; y iv) una nueva articulación de las redes de espacios públicos urbanos y periurbanos. Los proyectos de renovación que han incluido los frentes marítimos y fluviales han supuesto no solo la transformación física del lugar, sino el cambio de percepción sobre estos espacios por parte de la población. La constatación de las preferencias y el uso social del espacio público en las áreas renovadas se analiza a través de las redes sociales, concretamente, a partir de los mapas de calor generados por el visor cartográfico Instasights.

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Pablo Martí Ciriquián; Clara Garcia-Mayor. Frentes marítimo-fluviales en ciudades españolas: nuevos espacios urbanos. Bitácora Urbano Territorial 2018, 28, 71 -79.

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Pablo Martí Ciriquián, Clara Garcia-Mayor. Frentes marítimo-fluviales en ciudades españolas: nuevos espacios urbanos. Bitácora Urbano Territorial. 2018; 28 (3):71-79.

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Pablo Martí Ciriquián; Clara Garcia-Mayor. 2018. "Frentes marítimo-fluviales en ciudades españolas: nuevos espacios urbanos." Bitácora Urbano Territorial 28, no. 3: 71-79.

Journal article
Published: 18 March 2018 in Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles
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La Costa Blanca (España) es uno de los destinos turísticos más relevantes de la costa mediterránea. La importante transformación urbana experimentada por la intensa demanda turística invita a estudiar cuáles son las estrategias de ocupación de suelo y los patrones de organización espacial que configuran estos asentamientos turísticos. Se estudian tres casos representativos –Dénia, Benidorm y Torrevieja– donde se relaciona el turismo de masas con las morfologías de tejido urbano continuo y el turismo residencial y vacacional con las morfologías de tejido urbano discontinuo.

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Pablo Martí Ciriquián; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Estrategias de ocupación territorial en áreas turísticas consolidadas de la Costa Blanca (España). Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles 2018, 430 .

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Pablo Martí Ciriquián, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Leticia Serrano-Estrada. Estrategias de ocupación territorial en áreas turísticas consolidadas de la Costa Blanca (España). Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles. 2018; (76):430.

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Pablo Martí Ciriquián; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano-Estrada. 2018. "Estrategias de ocupación territorial en áreas turísticas consolidadas de la Costa Blanca (España)." Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles , no. 76: 430.

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Published: 01 October 2017 in Tourism Management
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Benidorm (Spain) is a large-scale tourism destination on the Mediterranean coast, and its temporary population can be divided into users of regulated tourist accommodation and unregistered visitors, as occurs in other destinations. The number of these different types of unregistered temporary inhabitants should be estimated separately to gauge more accurate population figures in tourist destinations which are subject to seasonality. Indicators such as drinking water consumption or solid waste generation are used to estimate the number of unregistered visitors. The results reveal that the average total population of Benidorm at least doubles the registered resident population. Additionally, a population density index has been calculated to assess urban sustainability. The methodology adopted can be applied to other case studies in order to estimate total populations, which is vital for the adequate provision of public services.This work was partially supported by the Office of the Vice President of Research and Knowledge Transfer of the University of Alicante (Patricia Fernández-Aracil has a scholarship for The Training of University Teachers from the University of Alicante, FPU UA 2014)

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Juan-Carlos Sánchez-Galiano; Pablo Martí Ciriquián; Patricia Fernández-Aracil. Temporary population estimates of mass tourism destinations: The case of Benidorm. Tourism Management 2017, 62, 234 -240.

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Juan-Carlos Sánchez-Galiano, Pablo Martí Ciriquián, Patricia Fernández-Aracil. Temporary population estimates of mass tourism destinations: The case of Benidorm. Tourism Management. 2017; 62 ():234-240.

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Juan-Carlos Sánchez-Galiano; Pablo Martí Ciriquián; Patricia Fernández-Aracil. 2017. "Temporary population estimates of mass tourism destinations: The case of Benidorm." Tourism Management 62, no. : 234-240.

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Published: 01 April 2017 in Cities
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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 stages. First, the most important cities of the province of Alicante were selected. Second, the most relevant plaza of each city was identified using data retrieved from the social network Foursquare. Finally, the location of each plaza is analyzed in relation to the historic center and the main axes of the city. Possible correlations between their urban location and their vibrant character were subsequently identified. Two findings have emerged from this study: (a) a strong spatial relationship exists between the most successful plazas and the historic city center, which reinforces their traditional social character; and (b) all plazas share two similar traits, their location within the urban network and their proximity to the main axes of the city.This work was supported by the University of Alicante. Project: Representation and interpretation of urban dynamics through LBSN data. MAPPINGAME. No. GRE15-14 2015

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Pablo Martí; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda. Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas. Cities 2017, 64, 66 -78.

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Pablo Martí, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda. Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas. Cities. 2017; 64 ():66-78.

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Pablo Martí; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda. 2017. "Using locative social media and urban cartographies to identify and locate successful urban plazas." Cities 64, no. : 66-78.

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Published: 16 November 2016 in Applied Network Science
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This paper analyzes success public spaces (specifically plazas) in the urban fabric of the city of Murcia, Spain. Two approaches were adopted. Firstly, the city was visualized as a complex network whose nodes represent plazas. A centrality algorithm was applied to determine the importance of each node. Secondly, data sets were used from social networks Foursquare and Twitter, which provide different types of data as well as user profiles. Foursquare data indicates user preferences of urban public spaces, while in this respect Twitter offers less specific user generated data. Both perspectives have facilitated two rankings based on the most visited plazas in the city. The results enabled a comparative study to determine the potential differences or similarities between both approaches.

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Taras Agryzkov; Pablo Martí; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Leandro Tortosa; José-Francisco Vicent. Analysing successful public spaces in an urban street network using data from the social networks Foursquare and Twitter. Applied Network Science 2016, 1, 1 -15.

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Taras Agryzkov, Pablo Martí, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Leandro Tortosa, José-Francisco Vicent. Analysing successful public spaces in an urban street network using data from the social networks Foursquare and Twitter. Applied Network Science. 2016; 1 (1):1-15.

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Taras Agryzkov; Pablo Martí; Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda; Leticia Serrano-Estrada; Leandro Tortosa; José-Francisco Vicent. 2016. "Analysing successful public spaces in an urban street network using data from the social networks Foursquare and Twitter." Applied Network Science 1, no. 1: 1-15.