Emerging big datasets about human mobility provide new and powerful ways of studying
cities and addressing various urban issues. However, human mobility has usually been …

Urban agglomerations are constantly and rapidly evolving ecosystems, with globalization
and increasing urbanization posing new challenges in sustainable urban development well …

While social media make it easy to connect with and access information from anyone, they
also facilitate basic influence and unfriending mechanisms that may lead to segregated and …

Echo chambers on social media are a significant problem that can elicit a number of
negative consequences, most recently affecting the response to COVID-19. Echo chambers …

Urban income segregation is a widespread phenomenon that challenges societies across
the globe. Classical studies on segregation have largely focused on the geographic …

Millions commute to work every day in cities and interact with colleagues, partners, friends,
and strangers. Commuting facilitates the mixing of people from distant and diverse …

As described in the proverb “birds of a feather flock together”, the term homophily narrates
the principle that stronger spatial interactions tend to be formed among locations with similar …

Recent theoretical and methodological advances in activity space and big data provide new
opportunities to study socio-spatial segregation. This review first provides an overview of the …

The digital revolution has brought ethical crossroads of technology and behavior, especially
in the realm of sustainable cities. The need for a comprehensive and constructive ethical …

Culture and creative production have an important but somewhat elusive role in urban
development. None of the many conceptual paradigms that have been proposed so far to …