The geography of city liveliness and consumption: evidence from location-based big data

Wenjie Wu, Jianghao Wang, Chengyu Li and Mark Wang
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: 武文杰

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Abstract: Understanding the complexity in the connection between city liveliness and spatial configurationsfor consumptive amenities has been an important but understudied research field in fast urbanising countries like China. This paper presents the first step towards filling this gap though location-based big data perspectives. City liveliness is measured by aggregated spacetime human activity intensities using mobile phone positioning data.Consumptive amenities are identified by point-of-interest data from Chinese Yelp website (dian ping). The results provide the insights into the geographic contextual uncertainties of consumptive amenities in shaping the rise and fall in the vibrancy of city liveliness.

Keywords: big data; local linear estimator; city liveliness; consumption; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2016-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-big, nep-cna, nep-geo, nep-pay and nep-ure
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