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Examining Socio-Economic Isolation in Urban Spaces

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Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling (SBP-BRiMS 2024)

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Urbanization offers the potential to reduce socio-economic disparities by fostering interaction among diverse population groups. However, its success is often hindered by factors leading to socio-economic segregation. Utilizing anonymized mobility data, this study investigates socio-economic isolation in Salvador, Brazil, with a focus on gender and age isolation. We analyze isolation at both the census and individual levels, measuring isolation among gender and age groups in public spaces and examining interactions among individuals from different social groups. Our results highlight significant gender and age disparities at the census-level, with social class having a major influence at the individual-level.

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We thank Logan for providing the mobility data for Salvador.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Hend Alrasheed

  2. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT Connection Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Hend Alrasheed, Vinicius Andrade Brei & Alex Paul Pentland

  3. School of Management, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Alina Fonseca Flores & Vinicius Andrade Brei

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  1. United States Military Academy, Army Cyber Institute, West Point, NY, USA

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  2. The University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, KY, USA

    Aravind Hariharan

  3. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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  4. Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

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  5. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

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Alrasheed, H., Flores, A.F., Brei, V.A., Pentland, A.P. (2024). Examining Socio-Economic Isolation in Urban Spaces. In: Thomson, R., et al. Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14972. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72241-7_18

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