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What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot

Baua Electric

Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight. When Milan’s authorities embarked years ago on plans to promote the city as a buzzy destination by building on its reputation as Italy’s hip fashion and design capital, the resulting noise and rowdy overcrowding were perhaps not quite what they had in mind.

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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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To conduct the study, the researchers used anonymized cellphone data from large communications providers to track the movement of people in the metro areas of Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Boston; Braga, Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal; Dakar, Senegal; and Singapore. 2021) “The universal visitation law of human mobility.” Schläpfer, M.,

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