A statistical approach for studying urban human dynamics 

    Santa Guzmán, Luis Fernando (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)

    This doctoral dissertation proposed several statistical approaches to analyse urban dynamics with aiming to provide tools for decision making processes and urban studies. It assumed that human activity and human mobility ...

    Geographies of Empathy: Affective reconfigurations of Cities, Objects & Places 

    Portela, Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)

    This work addresses the development of digital technologies from the perspective of corporeal and embodied encounters. It offers a critical view of the openness and smartness of cities, at the same time that propose a novel ...

    Place and City: merging our affective and social spatial dimension in the (smart) platial city 

    Acedo Sánchez, Albert (Date of defense: 2018-11-28)

    In this research, we highlight the need to understand and operationalize social concepts spatial dimension for a better understanding of a smart citizen-centric approach which is mainly dependent on our capability to ...