A city is not a static tree: understanding urban areas through the lens of real-time behavioral data

Q4 Engineering

ZARCH Pub Date : 2023-02-11 DOI:10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022197407

E. Moro

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Abstract

Cities are the main ground on which our society and culture develop today and will develop in the future. Against the traditional understanding of cities as physical spaces mostly around our neighborhoods, recent use of large-scale mobility datasets has enabled the study of our behavior at unprecedented spatial and temporal scales, much beyond our static residential spaces. Here we show how it is possible to use these datasets to investigate the role that human behavior plays in traditional urban problems like segregation, public health, or epidemics. Apart from measuring or monitoring such problems in a more comprehensive way, the analysis of those large datasets using modern machine learning techniques or causality detection permits to unveil of the behavioral roots behind them. As a result, only by incorporating real-time behavioral data can we design more efficient policies or interventions to improve such critical societal issues in our urban areas.

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城市不是一棵静止的树：通过实时行为数据的视角理解城市地区

城市是我们今天和未来社会和文化发展的主要基础。与传统上将城市理解为主要围绕我们社区的物理空间不同，最近大规模流动数据集的使用使我们能够在前所未有的空间和时间尺度上研究我们的行为，远远超出了我们静态的居住空间。在这里，我们展示了如何使用这些数据集来调查人类行为在隔离、公共卫生或流行病等传统城市问题中的作用。除了以更全面的方式测量或监测这些问题外，使用现代机器学习技术或因果关系检测对这些大型数据集的分析还可以揭示它们背后的行为根源。因此，只有结合实时行为数据，我们才能设计更有效的政策或干预措施，以改善我们城市地区的这些关键社会问题。

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ZARCH Engineering-Architecture

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0.20

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22 weeks

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