Our NERDS seminars continue on Wednesday Feb 15 with a talk from Francisco Rowe, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool.

Francisco Rowe will introduce the research project ITINERANT: InequaliTies IN Experiencing uRbAn fuNcTion:

ITINERANT aims to understand how different socio-economic groups experience, access and benefit from the wide array of functions cities offer. To this end, ITINERANT uses machine learning and combines a variety of traditional and digital footprint sources to measure urban function and capture how people move through these functional spaces. Understanding of how people use urban spaces is key to develop policies that ensure that benefits in accessibility to urban amenities are shared fairly across society. In the talk, we will describe the key findings of the project. First, we will describe the extent to which people move from urban areas to suburbs and further afield during COVID-19. Second, we will present a novel approach to create a classification of urban function. Third, we will show differences in the patterns of how people from different deprivation areas move across ranging types of urban functions.