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Connecting intercity mobility with urban welfare

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    Identifier:  imarina:9282439
    Authors:  Mimar, Sayat; Soriano-Paños, David; Kirkley, Alec; Barbosa, Hugo; Sadilek, Adam; Arenas, Alex; Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesus; Ghoshal, Gourab
    Abstract:
    Abstract While significant effort has been devoted to understand the role of intraurban characteristics on sustainability and growth, much remains to be understood about the effect of interurban interactions and the role cities have in determining each other’s urban welfare. Here we consider a global mobility network of population flows between cities as a proxy for the communication between these regions, and analyze how it correlates with socioeconomic indicators. We use several measures of centrality to rank cities according to their importance in the mobility network, finding PageRank to be the most effective measure for reflecting these prosperity indicators. Our analysis reveals that the characterization of the welfare of cities based on mobility information hinges on their corresponding development stage. Namely, while network-based predictions of welfare correlate well with economic indicators in mature cities, for developing urban areas additional information about the prosperity of their mobility neighborhood is needed. We develop a simple generative model for the allocation of population flows out of a city that balances the costs and benefits of interaction with other cities that are successful, finding that it provides a strong fit to the flows observed in the global mobility network and highlights the differences in flow patterns between developed and developing urban regions. Our results hint towards the importance of leveraging interurban connections in service of urban development and welfare.
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    Link to the original source: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/4/pgac178/6693724
    APA: Mimar, Sayat; Soriano-Paños, David; Kirkley, Alec; Barbosa, Hugo; Sadilek, Adam; Arenas, Alex; Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesus; Ghoshal, Gourab (2022). Connecting intercity mobility with urban welfare. Pnas Nexus, 1(4), pgac178-. DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac178
    Paper original source: Pnas Nexus. 1 (4): pgac178-
    Article's DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac178
    Journal publication year: 2022
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Record's date: 2024-09-28
    URV's Author/s: Arenas Moreno, Alejandro
    Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
    Author, as appears in the article.: Mimar, Sayat; Soriano-Paños, David; Kirkley, Alec; Barbosa, Hugo; Sadilek, Adam; Arenas, Alex; Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesus; Ghoshal, Gourab
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Thematic Areas: Social sciences, interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary sciences, Multidisciplinary
    Author's mail: alexandre.arenas@urv.cat
  • Keywords:

    Multidisciplinary Sciences
    Social Sciences
    Interdisciplinary
    Multidisciplinary
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