Alessia Calafiore

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Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Data Science, ESALA/ECA, Edinburgh Future Institute, University of Edinburgh. #maps #R #urbanAnalytics

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Websitehttps://aelissa.github.io/
Researchhttps://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/alessia-calafiore
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"Do you not see there's a problem?"

"There's an algorithm here tracking a human worker."

Labour MP Darren Jones absolutely slates Amazon's European head of public policy over their dystopian surveillance of workers.

RT @SegByDesign
Construction of I95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents—nearly 100% of them black. Using eminent domain, the gov't seized buildings across the heart of Miami's black community in Overtown, offering owners well below market rate—and renters nothing.
Interesting to see some initial analysis on the impact in terms of car trips reduction of three car-free initiatives in Avatar Simpson's presentation #urbantransitions2022
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Excellent work by @fcorowe et al. on mobility flows throughout the pandemic. Interesting paper showing how initial population losses in urban centres are now trending back to 'normal' - more here https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03272
Urban Exodus? Understanding Human Mobility in Britain During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Facebook Data

Existing empirical work has focused on assessing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions on human mobility to contain the spread of COVID-19. Less is known about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the spatial patterns of population movement within countries. Anecdotal evidence of an urban exodus from large cities to rural areas emerged during early phases of the pandemic across western societies. Yet, these claims have not been empirically assessed. Traditional data sources, such as censuses offer coarse temporal frequency to analyse population movement over short-time intervals. Drawing on a data set of 21 million observations from Facebook users, we aim to analyse the extent and evolution of changes in the spatial patterns of population movement across the rural-urban continuum in Britain over an 18-month period from March, 2020 to August, 2021. Our findings show an overall and sustained decline in population movement during periods of high stringency measures, with the most densely populated areas reporting the largest reductions. During these periods, we also find evidence of higher-than-average mobility from highly dense population areas to low densely populated areas, lending some support to claims of large-scale population movements from large cities. Yet, we show that these trends were temporary. Overall mobility levels trended back to pre-coronavirus levels after the easing of non-pharmaceutical interventions. Following these interventions, we also found a reduction in movement to low density areas and a rise in mobility to high density agglomerations. Overall, these findings reveal that while COVID-19 generated shock waves leading to temporary changes in the patterns of population movement in Britain, the resulting vibrations have not significantly reshaped the prevalent structures in the national pattern of population movement.

arXiv.org

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Spent the morning chatting about social science methods with the lovely @aspect_network Methods for Change team as part of the #ESRCFestival...

Including thoughts on what to consider when taking a critical approach to #spatialdatascience 📊📍🗨️

If you're at #urbantransitions2022 and you're interested in 15- 20- minute cities I will talk about a related project in collaboration with Liverpool City Region in the next session at 12:30 "Justice in planning". A couple of maps below, paper accessible here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920921004077

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ICYMI: We're hiring - Research Associate in Housing Analysis

Are you a quantitative researcher with an economics/social policy background interested in working with #HousingData?

If yes, come and work with us: http://ow.ly/vcPC50LxfUl (deadline: 24 Nov)

#AcademicJobs

Research Associate in Housing Analysis at University of Glasgow

Jobs.ac.uk
We need to move from a car-centric to an integrated system to achieve net zero. Prof. Woodcock at #urbantransitions2022