Everyday Mobility and Movement Segregation

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Led by Data and Racial Inequality Project
Project Team
- Mario L. Small Principal Investigator
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This project seeks to understand racial segregation based on not where people live, but where they move about the city.

Using newly-available data on people’s daily travel to establishments and neighborhoods across cities, it examines separation, isolation, and integration. Everyday Mobility and Movement Segregation is part of the Data and Racial Inequality Project.

Related Works

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Àlex G. de la Prada and Mario L. Small, "How people are exposed to neighborhoods racially different from their own", PNAS, July 1, 2024
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Mario L. Small, "The Data Revolution and the Study of Social Inequality: Promise and Perils", Social Research, January 4, 2024
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Weiyu Li, Qi Wang, Yuanyuan Liu, Mario L. Small, and Jianxi Gao , "A spatiotemporal decay model of human mobility when facing large-scale crises", PNAS, August 8, 2022
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Nolan E. Phillips, Brian L. Levy, Robert J. Sampson, Mario L. Small, and Ryan Q. Wang, "The Social Integration of American Cities: Network Measures of Connectedness Based on Everyday Mobility Across Neighborhoods", Sage Journals, July 17, 2019

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