Print Email Facebook Twitter Disadvantaged communities have lower access to urban infrastructure Title Disadvantaged communities have lower access to urban infrastructure Author Nicoletti, L.A. Sirenko, M. Verma, T. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) Date 2022 Abstract Disparity in spatial accessibility is strongly associated with growing inequalities among urban communities. Since improving levels of accessibility for certain communities can provide them with upward social mobility and address social exclusion and inequalities in cities, it is important to understand the nature and distribution of spatial accessibility among urban communities. To support decision-makers in achieving inclusion and fairness in policy interventions in cities, we present an open and data-driven framework to understand the spatial nature of accessibility to infrastructure among the different demographics. We find that accessibility to a wide range of infrastructure in any city (54 cities) converges to a Zipf’s law, suggesting that inequalities also appear proportional to growth processes in these cities. Then, assessing spatial inequalities among the socioeconomically clustered urban profiles for 10 of those cities, we find urban communities are distinctly segregated along social and spatial lines. We find low accessibility scores for populations who have a larger share of minorities, earn less and have a relatively lower number of individuals with a university degree. These findings suggest that the reproducible framework we propose may be instrumental in understanding processes leading to spatial inequalities and in supporting cities to devise targeted measures for addressing inequalities for certain underprivileged communities. Subject equitymachine learningopen-source datapublic policyurban accessibility To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8c1aa7e6-6c43-4115-bd36-f3b622c99420 DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221131044 ISSN 2399-8083 Source Environment and Planning B: Urban Cities and City Science, 50 (3), 831-849 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 L.A. Nicoletti, M. Sirenko, T. Verma Files PDF 23998083221131044.pdf 1.5 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8c1aa7e6-6c43-4115-bd36-f3b622c99420/datastream/OBJ/view