Urban access is inequitably distributed in cities across the world

Disparity in spatial accessibility manifests as an outcome of and is responsible for growing poverty among urban communities. Since improving levels of accessibility can address social exclusion and poverty, 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-source and data-driven framework to under- stand the spatial nature of accessibility to infrastructure among the different demographics in cities. We find systematically 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 such an approach can support cities to devise targeted measures for addressing inequalities for certain underprivileged communities.