Francisco Rowe [@fcorowe]1, Alessia Calafiore [@alel_domi ]1, Dani Arribas-Bel [@darribas ]1,2, Krasen Samardzhiev1, Martin Fleischmann[@martinfleis
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1 Geographic Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom. 2 The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, England, NW1 2DB, United Kingdom.
This repository stores the required code to replicate the results of the following article:
Rowe, F., Calafiore, A., Arribas-Bel, D., Samardzhiev, K., Fleischmann, M. 2022. Urban Exodus? Understanding Human Mobility in Britain During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Facebook Data.
This paper aims to analyse the extent and durability of changes in human mobility patterns across the rural-urban continuum in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic, covering an 18-month period from March 2020 to August 2021. Specifically this paper seeks to address the following set of questions:
- To what extent have people moved away from cities, and redistributed across the urban-rural continuum during the pandemic?
- What have been the key interactions between places across the population density hierarchy? Have people mainly moved to sparely populated areas?
- To what extent the intensity of population movement from cities have been sustained throughout the pandemic? Have the observed changes been temporary, or are likely to persist post pandemic?
