Hybrid Format

Talk@MPIDR Noli Brazil

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock, Germany, October 16, 2024

11:00 AM: Noli Brazil -  Beyond residential and extra-local environments: The emergence of neighborhood networks as a higher-order ecological scale in urban research

Abstract: A large literature has documented the impact of residential neighborhood conditions on individual health and well-being.  The neighborhood effects framework was broadened by the perspective that ecological features shaping well-being are spatially clustered and extend to their extra-local environments.  While the neighborhood effects and spatial diffusion frameworks established foundational understandings of whether and how neighborhood conditions influence well-being, scholars have noted their limitation in conceptualizing exposure as a spatially bounded process.  A third framework emerged in response. This framework proposes neighborhoods as embedded within a higher-order network linked via mobility flows structured by the various ways residents move around their cities for daily routines. In this talk, I will summarize the results of a scoping review of the burgeoning neighborhood networks literature. I then present results of applications of this framework that uses 2018-2019 data from over 40 million cell phone devices to construct neighborhood networks based on daily mobility flows for the 100 largest US metropolitan areas. 

Bio: Noli Brazil is a Demographer and an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of California, Davis. He is interested in spatial demography, or more broadly, the connections between people and places.  Neighborhoods play a central role in his research, and is a theme that unifies many of the projects across his primary research domains.  At the broadest spatial scale, he studies the consequences of large-scale urban trends and interventions.  Moving down the geographic ladder, he examines the causes and consequences of neighborhood inequality.   At the individual level, he investigates the determinants and consequences of migration and residential mobility with a particular focus on adolescents and young adults.

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