Interesting. It strikes me that all these studies come from the largest cities. And while the same factors (smartphones) affect peoples' behavior everywhere, I wonder what these researchers would find if they applied the same methods to smaller places.
Interesting point. It would be nice to see if the same issues abound in smaller cities and towns. I would guess it would depend on whether those smaller places have quality environments that cause people to slow down. I can think of a lot of smaller cities that have nice streets to walk down -- and also many that do not!
Attention directly goes to Busy schedules, Busy life styles, Digitalizing, Loss of human-human interactions, human-nature interactions etc. etc. What impacts does the security of the environments (the places to gather having a safer feeling), attractiveness of the environments have on this? #By the way, a fascinating fact. Particularly in a world in which AI is stealing human focus and relationships
Two things. One, the impact and influence of access to food. Many options to procuring food in close proximity for lower income neighborhoods (food deserts) in contrast to wealthier ones has consequences.
Two, the age old generational impacts of self segregation on neighborhood composition and its impact for socioeconomic interactions.
The ideas of Jacobs about streets in *Death and Life* and agglomeration studies by Glaeser and other economists do not play well together. Glaeser often conflates "cities" with "metros." He reports metro data and ascribes them to "cities." Glaeser does not seem to care about geographical proximity; instead, he imagines that high-speed mobility brings people together. Not that I have time, but I keep thinking about writing a review of *Triumph of the City*.
I think the lingering data helps to get at the important issue of measuring qualitative experiences in cities.
Re: Glaeser, let's go on a little tangent here : ) I have gone through many phases with his work! I remember feeling like "what is the big deal about this guy" when I first encountered him, nearly 20 years ago now. And now, I realize that often whenever I am researching something, he got there first. He studied it. So yeah, not always a fan of what it seems like is his "agenda" but on the other hand I'm impressed by how prolific and inquisitive he has been over his career. For example, I was going to write a piece about how air conditioning changed the south and came across this piece from 2007 -- so long ago! And so relevant still! https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13071/w13071.pdf
Yes. Fair point, but conflating “cities” and “metros” should get your undergraduate paper marked down to a “C.” However, I also see this enough to suggest that this is part of social science-planner-urbanist Group Think.
In an academic context I agree cities and metros should be treated distinctly but for a general public audience, it’s more reasonable to use them interchangeably
Would love to see the impact of smartphones a decade and a bit on. Back in 2010 the social media addiction created by them wasn't quite there. So I imaging it must be even worse today.
In Fulton article on retail, You asked about the internet share of food is excluded. Excluding Food and, transportation purchases, such as Grocery, restaurant, car purchases, and gasoline, the net now has a 1/3 share
Interesting. It strikes me that all these studies come from the largest cities. And while the same factors (smartphones) affect peoples' behavior everywhere, I wonder what these researchers would find if they applied the same methods to smaller places.
Interesting point. It would be nice to see if the same issues abound in smaller cities and towns. I would guess it would depend on whether those smaller places have quality environments that cause people to slow down. I can think of a lot of smaller cities that have nice streets to walk down -- and also many that do not!
Attention directly goes to Busy schedules, Busy life styles, Digitalizing, Loss of human-human interactions, human-nature interactions etc. etc. What impacts does the security of the environments (the places to gather having a safer feeling), attractiveness of the environments have on this? #By the way, a fascinating fact. Particularly in a world in which AI is stealing human focus and relationships
We have become a society that mostly relies on purposeful interactions now instead of incidental. We lose spontaneity.
Two things. One, the impact and influence of access to food. Many options to procuring food in close proximity for lower income neighborhoods (food deserts) in contrast to wealthier ones has consequences.
Two, the age old generational impacts of self segregation on neighborhood composition and its impact for socioeconomic interactions.
I cannot read enough about lingering.
The ideas of Jacobs about streets in *Death and Life* and agglomeration studies by Glaeser and other economists do not play well together. Glaeser often conflates "cities" with "metros." He reports metro data and ascribes them to "cities." Glaeser does not seem to care about geographical proximity; instead, he imagines that high-speed mobility brings people together. Not that I have time, but I keep thinking about writing a review of *Triumph of the City*.
I think the lingering data helps to get at the important issue of measuring qualitative experiences in cities.
Re: Glaeser, let's go on a little tangent here : ) I have gone through many phases with his work! I remember feeling like "what is the big deal about this guy" when I first encountered him, nearly 20 years ago now. And now, I realize that often whenever I am researching something, he got there first. He studied it. So yeah, not always a fan of what it seems like is his "agenda" but on the other hand I'm impressed by how prolific and inquisitive he has been over his career. For example, I was going to write a piece about how air conditioning changed the south and came across this piece from 2007 -- so long ago! And so relevant still! https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13071/w13071.pdf
Yes. Fair point, but conflating “cities” and “metros” should get your undergraduate paper marked down to a “C.” However, I also see this enough to suggest that this is part of social science-planner-urbanist Group Think.
In an academic context I agree cities and metros should be treated distinctly but for a general public audience, it’s more reasonable to use them interchangeably
Would love to see the impact of smartphones a decade and a bit on. Back in 2010 the social media addiction created by them wasn't quite there. So I imaging it must be even worse today.
In Fulton article on retail, You asked about the internet share of food is excluded. Excluding Food and, transportation purchases, such as Grocery, restaurant, car purchases, and gasoline, the net now has a 1/3 share