Our work on gendered cities continues to be cited by journalists and public entities. In this case, the Gijón City Council (Asturias) cited our work and website in an initiative to rename a street after a female figure: 🔗 www.gijon.es/es/noticias/...

A good read www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#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.

📍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/

🚨🚨 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/...

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

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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)

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...

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 👇👇

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: [3/10]

🚨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:👇 [1/10]

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