Americans spending more and more time at home, with COVID pandemic accelerating trend

Brian D. Taylor is a professor of urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, Eric Morris is a professor of city and regional planning at Clemson University and Sam Speroni is a PhD Student in urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In his February 2025 cover story for The Atlantic, journalist Derek Thompson dubbed our current era "the anti-social century."