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STNAMES LAB
@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/
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/...
September 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#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.
August 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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📍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...
April 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New section on our website

en.stnameslab.com/miscellaneous/
April 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🚨🚨 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.
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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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/...
Glasgow councillors ridiculed over ‘silly’ new street names
Radiography Road and Virology Grove also suggested for roads on the site of a former hospital, but locals mocked Glasgow council’s ‘creative’ plans
www.thetimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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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...
Calles con nombre de mujer: lejos, pequeñas y olvidadas
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
theconversation.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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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
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
February 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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February 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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
February 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#Street #names and other toponyms can give us clues about #floodability

Newspaper piece using data from @stnameslab.bsky.social

www.elcorreo.com/sociedad/rio...
January 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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@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)
January 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Rúas con nome de muller no Estado.

Fonte: stnameslab.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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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...
December 4, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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...
Do street names influence people?
YouTube video by @OtoPeralias
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Check out the latest publication by the STNAMES LAB

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🚨PUBLICATION ALERT🚨

Very pleased to see this paper published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social

DO WOMEN COMMEMORATE WOMEN? HOW GENDER AND IDEOLOGY AFFECT DECISIONS ON NAMING FEMALE STREETS

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Brief 🧵summarizing the paper 👇:

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December 3, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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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
November 28, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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
November 28, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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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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November 5, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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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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November 5, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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
STNAMES LAB – Street names lab
Data science applied to urban toponymy.
en.stnameslab.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:42 PM