Behavior-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience

Behavior-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Behavior-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience Takahiro Yabe, Bernardo Garcia-Bulle, Morgan Frank, Alex Pentland, and 1 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3683842/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Published Journal Publication published 23 Dec, 2024 Read the published version in Nature Human Behaviour → Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Urban economic resilience is intricately linked to how disruptions caused by pandemics, disasters, and technological shifts ripple through businesses and urban amenities. Disruptions, such as closures of non-essential businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, not only affect those places directly but also influence how people live and move, spreading the impact on other businesses and increasing the overall economic shock. However, it is unclear how much businesses depend on each other in these situations. Leveraging large-scale human mobility data and millions of same-day visits in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas, we quantify dependencies between points-of-interest (POIs) encompassing businesses, stores, and amenities. Compared to places' physical proximity, dependency networks computed from human mobility exhibit significantly higher rates of long-distance connections and biases towards specific pairs of POI categories. We show that using behavior-based dependency relationships improves the predictability of business resilience during shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, by around 40% compared to distance-based models. Simulating hypothetical urban shocks reveals that neglecting behavior-based dependencies can lead to a substantial underestimation of the spatial cascades of disruptions on businesses and urban amenities. Our findings underscore the importance of measuring the complex relationships woven through behavioral patterns in human mobility to foster urban economic resilience to shocks. Social science/Complex networks Scientific community and society/Social sciences/Society Full Text Additional Declarations There is NO Competing Interest. 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