RT Journal Article
T1 City dynamics through Twitter: Relationships between land use and spatiotemporal demographics
A1 García Palomares, Juan Carlos
A1 Salas Olmedo, María Henar
A1 Moya Gómez, Borja
A1 Condeço Melhorado, Ana Margarida
A1 Gutiérrez Puebla, Javier
AB Social network data offer interesting opportunities in urban studies. In this study, we used Twitter data to analyse city dynamics over the course of the day. Users of this social network were grouped according to city zone and time slot in order to analyse the daily dynamics of the city and the relationship between this and land use. First, daytime activity in each zone was compared with activity at night in order to determine which zones showed increased activity in each of the time slots. Then, typical Twitter activity profiles were obtained based on the predominant land use in each zone, indicating how land uses linked to activities were activated during the day, but at different rates depending on the type of land use. Lastly, a multiple regression analysis was performed to determine the influence of the different land uses on each of the major time slots (morning, afternoon, evening and night) through their changing coefficients. Activity tended to decrease throughout the day for most land uses (e.g. offices, education, health and transport), but remained constant in parks and increased in retail and residential zones. Our results show that social network data can be used to improve our understanding of the link between land use and urban dynamics.
PB Elselvier
SN 0264-2751
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94769
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94769
LA eng
NO García-Palomares, Juan Carlos, María Henar Salas-Olmedo, Borja Moya-Gómez, Ana Condeço-Melhorado, y Javier Gutiérrez. «City Dynamics through Twitter: Relationships between Land Use and Spatiotemporal Demographics». Cities 72 (febrero de 2018): 310-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.09.007.
NO European Commission 
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025