The MIT-led study found a 15% to 30% decrease in the number of visits residents were making to areas that are socioeconomically different than their own.
FILE - A visitor takes a picture of Luis Berrueco,"Saint Francis before Pope Honorius III, on display at the Press Preview For LACMAs"Archive Of The World" Exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 8, 2022, in Los Angeles, CaBetween shutdowns of businesses and schools, social lives upended, and job losses, the pandemic brought dramatic changes to many aspects of life.
"We see that changes like working from home, less exploration, more online shopping, all these behaviors add up," Esteban Moro, a research scientist at MIT’s Sociotechnical Systems Research Center and another of the paper’s co-authors, By late 2021, the study team found that the amount of urban movement overall was returning to pre-pandemic levels, but the scope of places residents were visiting had lessened.
He continued: "Museums are the most diverse places you can find, parks — they took the biggest hit during the pandemic. Places that are [more] segregated, like grocery stores, did not."— Esteban Moro, a research scientist at MIT’s Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
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