@stnameslab.bsky.social
Research group focused on the quantitative analysis of urban toponyms, at @pablodeolavide.upo.es Web: en.stnameslab.com People: https://en.stnameslab.com/the-team/
#OTD in 1936, Federico García Lorca was assassinated by Spanish fascists during the Civil War. He was one of the greatest Spanish poets of the 20th cent and one the most commemorated figures in the Spanish street map, with 1154 streets. France and Italy also have more than 100 streets honoring him.
18.08.2025 09:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📍Solo el 12,92 % de calles con nombre de personaje no religioso en España están dedicadas a mujeres.
☑️STNAMES LAB #UPO analiza este sesgo en stnameslab.com/ciudades-con-genero visibilizando una dimensión simbólica clave de #igualdad. Porque nombrar también es reconocer💜
www.upo.es/diario/cienc...
New section on our website
en.stnameslab.com/miscellaneous/
Enlace:
stnameslab.com/ciudades-con...
Y aquí un mapa muy interesante con el personaje masculino y femenino más conmemorado en el callejero de cada comunidad autónoma
01.04.2025 09:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🚨🚨 Novedades 🚨🚨
1️⃣ Hemos actualizado nuestro indicador de % de calles de mujeres a enero de 2025
2️⃣Hemos actualizado también el gráfico para hacer consultas de cada municipio y el mapa interactivo
3️⃣Ponemos a disposición del público la base de datos completa de 2001 a 2025 a nivel municipal.
The endless political controversy over Francoist street names in Spain
www.eldiario.es/politica/fis...
How do you like Vaccine Drive, Radiography Road, or Laboratory Place? Glasgow, Scotland councillors ridiculed over "creative" street name ideas for housing estate. Meant to honor site's history as former hospital, but caused an outbreak of criticism. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
13.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Los nombres de las calles de un municipio no solo trazan su historia, también hablan de su identidad. En esa parte del relato oficial que se monumentaliza, la violencia simbólica excluye a las mujeres.
En @es.theconversation.com con Victoria Galloso
theconversation.com/calles-con-n...
Congrats @stnameslab.bsky.social. What a wonderful resource your team has created for geographers and place/street naming scholars @geographers.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social
24.02.2025 14:44 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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It has been about two years since we launched our street-names search apps.
This figure summarizes the usage of the apps.
In total, 28,400 queries and ~6,000 downloads. Not bad for an app like this, but we hope the numbers keep growing
#Street #names and other toponyms can give us clues about #floodability
Newspaper piece using data from @stnameslab.bsky.social
www.elcorreo.com/sociedad/rio...
@rgsibg.bsky.social @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @geographers.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social I searched @stnameslab.bsky.social for streets named for Martin Luther King among 16 European countries. Found 663 MLK roads total. The top countries are Italy (357 streets), France (236), Spain (27)
14.01.2025 02:58 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Solo se cuentan personajes seculares
28.12.2024 12:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No, solo personajes seculares
28.12.2024 12:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rúas con nome de muller no Estado.
Fonte: stnameslab.com
Open Access - Do women commemorate women? How gender and ideology affect decisions on naming female streets, by Víctor Caballero-Cordero, Demetrio Carmona-Derqui and Daniel Oto-Peralías www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
04.12.2024 01:04 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Listen while driving or walking to this AI-generated podcast about STNAMES LAB's recent research on the influence of street names.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJy...
Check out the latest publication by the STNAMES LAB
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WHAT DOES THE STREET MAP SAY ABOUT WHO IS THE BEST SPANISH ATHLETE?
The sport magazine #Relevo uses our #StreetMapDatabase to analyze the popularity of Spanish athletes
www.relevo.com/mas-deportes...
github.com/StNamesLab/S...
@vistoenrelevo.bsky.social
WHAT DOES THE STREET MAP SAY ABOUT WHO IS THE BEST SPANISH ATHLETE?
The sport magazine #Relevo uses our #StreetMapDatabase to analyze the popularity of Spanish athletes
www.relevo.com/mas-deportes...
github.com/StNamesLab/S...
@vistoenrelevo.bsky.social
RESULT 1: People have more knowledge about the figure commemorated in their streets.
We ask respondents if they know the professions of each figure in the sample of streets. This heatmap shows that figures are much better known by people living on streets honoring them:
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🚨Working Paper Alert 🚨
THE POWER OF COMMEMORATIVE POLICIES: DO STREET NAMES INFLUENCE PEOPLE?
In a recent paper, we investigate through an in-person survey whether street names affect people’s knowledge, opinions and attitudes.
Here is what we do and what we find:👇
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We have developed street-names search apps to make it easy the access and visualization of street names data:
Try out here:
en.stnameslab.com/search-apps/
Hello World!
STNAMES LAB (Street names Lab) is a research group focused on the quantitative analysis of urban toponyms. We apply data science tools to street names to study social phenomena such as religiosity, political identity, and gender inequality.
Visit our website en.stnameslab.com
