Neighborhood travel and racial segregation

How people travel to racially different neighborhoods

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In this episode, Mario Small talks about patterns of people's travel to neighborhoods racially different than their home neighborhood.

In this episode, we cover:
•[00:00] Introduction
•[00:59] Sociologist Mario Small describes how everyday travel can temper residential segregation.
•[01:57] Small talks about how their study tracked peoples’ movements and defined travel beyond a person’s racial comfort zone.
•[03:48] Small explains the study’s results.
•[06:08] He explores why some destinations take people to racially similar neighborhoods and some take people to racially different neighborhoods.
•[07:15] Small shows how “15-minute cities” might inadvertently reinforce residential segregation.
•[08:21] He lists the caveats and limitations of the study.
•[10:34] Conclusion.

About Our Guest:

Mario Small
Quetelet Professor of Social Science
Columbia University

View related content here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401661121

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