![]() “Although income inequality remains extremely high, that doesn’t mean that we also have to reconcile ourselves to highly segregated cities in which people who are rich never see or interact with those who are poor.” Few opportunities to meet “As we become an ever more urban country, it’s important to figure out whether big cities are living up to the long-standing assumption that they promote mixing and diversity,” said David Grusky, the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. 29 in Nature, show that if we want cities to be the cosmopolitan mixing grounds we expect them to be, we need to make intentional urban design choices to encourage those interactions. Using cellphone data, a collaboration of researchers led by Stanford University determined that most people in big cities have very few opportunities for even brief interactions with those outside their own socioeconomic status. But according to new research, people in big cities tend to primarily interact with other individuals in the same socioeconomic bracket, whereas people in small cities and rural areas are much more likely to have diverse interactions. ![]() We tend to think of large cities as melting pots – places where people from all sorts of backgrounds can mingle and interact. Big cities might be more socioeconomically segregated than small cities because they have a larger variety of stores, restaurants, recreation areas, and venues – and these choices cater to narrow socioeconomic brackets.
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