馃摚 New work! Places, businesses, and amenities depend on each other. Using massive human mobility data, we unravel that behavioral-based network of dependencies, important for resilient planning, policy-making, and urban design.
Lifestyles of urban dwellers connect places & businesses really far away. Dependency between businesses goes beyond the traditional "proximity" paradigm. That long-range structure improves predictability of urban shocks (e.g., COVID19) by 40%.