Social circles: Study details the degree to which urban movement is linked to social activity
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 15:30
in Psychology & Sociology
If you live in a city, you know that a fair amount of your movement around town is social in nature. But how much, exactly? A new study co-authored by MIT researchers uses a novel method to infer that around one-fifth of urban movement is strictly social, a finding that holds up consistently in multiple cities.