I will be keynote speaker at the The 3rd International Conference on Urban Science and Intelligence in August. I will present three papers developed in collaboration with Nandini Iyer, Clodomir Santana & Lavinia Rossi Mori
Title
How Space-Time Movement Patterns Reveal Inequality in Urban Dynamic and Transport
Abstract
Our research uncovers how income-segregated neighbourhoods create temporal patterns of inclusion and exclusion, where different social groups occupy the same urban spaces at different times of day, driven by the city’s topology and infrastructure layout. The COVID-19 pandemic served as a natural experiment, exposing how these embedded urban inequalities translated into differential mobility disruptions across geographical areas and socioeconomic groups. Rural and economically disadvantaged areas faced the greatest constraints on their spatial reach, while higher-income individuals adapted more easily through remote work arrangements. Building on this insight, we expand our analysis to consider how rural and urban mobility constraints function in everyday contexts in developing  countries, focusing on Colombia, Mexico, and India, we demonstrate how these patterns scale up to national rural-urban divides, where mobility inefficiency reflects not just distance but systematic underinvestment in connectivity infrastructure. This multi-scale analysis reveals mobility inequality as both a symptom and driver of broader socioeconomic divides, offering new insights for policy interventions that address the geographic dimensions of social justice.
More infos on the three paper:Iyer, N., Luca, M. & Di Clemente R., Understanding Urban-Rural Disparities in Mobility Inefficiency for Colombia, Mexico, and India, Project Page
Rossi Mori, L., Loreto, V., & Di Clemente, R. (2025). Time-space dynamics of income segregation in the city of Milan. IN PRESS PNAS Nexus. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2309.17294, Project Page
Santana C., Botta F., Barbosa H., Privitera F.,Menezes R. & Di Clemente R.,
COVID-19 is linked to changes in the time-space dimension of human mobility Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1729–1739, (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01660-3, Project Page