SPIN Unit

SPIN Unit

Urban research & innovation practice

Since 2012 we’ve partnered with municipalities, government agencies, and universities across Europe to turn complex urban data into decisions cities can act on — from parking policy and shrinking-cities research to accessibility mapping and participatory planning.

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How We Work

Every SPIN Unit project sits under one of three recurring lenses. Click a card to filter the archive below by that lens.

Selected public-sector clients

City of Tallinn City of Turku Municipality of Sipoo City of Tallinn City of Turku Municipality of Sipoo

Selected Projects

A running archive of SPIN Unit’s urban research, mobility, and public-engagement work since 2012.

  • EHR Building Registry Data Pipeline — TalTech

    EHR Building Registry Data Pipeline — TalTech

  • Pärnu Parking Analysis & Strategy

    Pärnu Parking Analysis & Strategy

  • Winter Maintenance for Walking and Cycling — Harju County

    Winter Maintenance for Walking and Cycling — Harju County

  • Bolt Drive — Car-Sharing Mode-Shift Survey

    Bolt Drive — Car-Sharing Mode-Shift Survey

  • Tallinn Service Accessibility Analysis

    Tallinn Service Accessibility Analysis

  • Tartu Parking Policy Baseline Analysis

    Tartu Parking Policy Baseline Analysis

  • Block 1 — Reimagining a Socialist-Era Superblock in Prishtina

    Block 1 — Reimagining a Socialist-Era Superblock in Prishtina

  • SMARTLAND by TELT — Interactive Storymap

    SMARTLAND by TELT — Interactive Storymap

  • Tallinn Traffic Planning — Scope Update for International Client

    Tallinn Traffic Planning — Scope Update for International Client

  • Stockmann Building — Rail Baltica Pedestrian Flow Analysis

    Stockmann Building — Rail Baltica Pedestrian Flow Analysis

  • Tallinn Green Factor (Rohefaktor)

    Tallinn Green Factor (Rohefaktor)

  • National Study of Shrinking Patterns in Estonia

    National Study of Shrinking Patterns in Estonia

  • RIPA2TAN — Environmental Drivers of Health in the Kilimanjaro Region

    RIPA2TAN — Environmental Drivers of Health in the Kilimanjaro Region

  • Ida-Viru County Shrinking Cities Analysis

    Ida-Viru County Shrinking Cities Analysis

  • Experimentation Evaluation Toolkit — Ylä-Malmi Pilot

    Experimentation Evaluation Toolkit — Ylä-Malmi Pilot

  • Tallinn 1.5 — A Plan for a Planetary City

    Tallinn 1.5 — A Plan for a Planetary City

  • e-Residency Digital Ease of Doing Business — Competitor Analysis

    e-Residency Digital Ease of Doing Business — Competitor Analysis

  • e-Residency Marketplace — Annual Monetary Impact Model (FY2021 update)

    e-Residency Marketplace — Annual Monetary Impact Model (FY2021 update)

  • City Unfinished — Museum Exhibition

    City Unfinished — Museum Exhibition

  • The New Modal — Mobility Equity in Harju County

    The New Modal — Mobility Equity in Harju County

  • Kiida Peatust / Laida Peatust — Crowdsourced Bus Stop Survey

    Kiida Peatust / Laida Peatust — Crowdsourced Bus Stop Survey

  • Fyma × SPIN Unit — Mobility KPIs for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

    Fyma × SPIN Unit — Mobility KPIs for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

  • Akkadian — e-Residency Economic Impact Analysis

    Akkadian — e-Residency Economic Impact Analysis

  • Tallinn Traffic Planning — International Engineering Subcontract

    Tallinn Traffic Planning — International Engineering Subcontract

  • Circular Park — Yerevan

    Circular Park — Yerevan

  • metaYLE — Ülemiste Mobility Nudge

    metaYLE — Ülemiste Mobility Nudge

  • Ethical Use of Urban Data

    Ethical Use of Urban Data

  • Nikkilä Colour Analysis

    Nikkilä Colour Analysis

  • ReCenter Narva — Youth Vision for Narva 2035

    ReCenter Narva — Youth Vision for Narva 2035

  • A Research Pilot for Shrinking Cities

    A Research Pilot for Shrinking Cities

  • Riga Mobility Metrics

    Riga Mobility Metrics

  • Lyon-Turin Multimodal Network Maps

    Lyon-Turin Multimodal Network Maps

  • Porvoo Square Benchmark

    Porvoo Square Benchmark

  • Warsaw Spatial Development Scenarios

    Warsaw Spatial Development Scenarios

  • metaPARK — Tallinn Citywide Parking Count Map

    metaPARK — Tallinn Citywide Parking Count Map

  • metaPARK — Tallinn Parking Technical Normative

    metaPARK — Tallinn Parking Technical Normative

  • metaPARK — Performance-Based Parking Policy for Tallinn

    metaPARK — Performance-Based Parking Policy for Tallinn

  • metaLINN — Tallinn City Centre

    metaLINN — Tallinn City Centre

  • Heritage of Sipoo — Typomorphology Map

    Heritage of Sipoo — Typomorphology Map

  • Vision for Land Use Monitoring — Finnish Ministry of the Environment

    Vision for Land Use Monitoring — Finnish Ministry of the Environment

  • metaLINN+8 — Unfinished City

    metaLINN+8 — Unfinished City

  • City Unfinished / The City Uncomputed

    City Unfinished / The City Uncomputed

  • New Futurama

    New Futurama

  • Turku Open Platform (TOP)

    Turku Open Platform (TOP)

  • The Hidden Life of 32 Russian Monotowns

    The Hidden Life of 32 Russian Monotowns

  • The Hidden Life of 38 Cities — World Cup 2018 Heritage

    The Hidden Life of 38 Cities — World Cup 2018 Heritage

  • MediaCityUK Activity Analysis

    MediaCityUK Activity Analysis

  • Voorbij de Winkelstraat — Schiedam

    Voorbij de Winkelstraat — Schiedam

  • Moscow Green & Water Accessibility Analysis

    Moscow Green & Water Accessibility Analysis

  • Rio de Janeiro Olympic Urbanism Maps

    Rio de Janeiro Olympic Urbanism Maps

  • A Sense of Place — Turku

    A Sense of Place — Turku

  • Colosseum Night Lighting Map

    Colosseum Night Lighting Map

  • TAB-Lab — Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2015

    TAB-Lab — Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2015

  • Tallinn Cycling & Morning Paths (2014 update)

    Tallinn Cycling & Morning Paths (2014 update)

  • Crime, Society and Urban Design (CPTED)

    Crime, Society and Urban Design (CPTED)

  • CONTOUR — Tallinn Seaside

    CONTOUR — Tallinn Seaside

  • From Ballroom to Dead End — Tallinn Night Map

    From Ballroom to Dead End — Tallinn Night Map

  • Edise Concept Plan

    Edise Concept Plan

  • Bike Paths — Tallinn (2012)

    Bike Paths — Tallinn (2012)