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| author | Pranto, Protik Bose Islam, Minhazul Saha, Ripon Kumar Rivera, Abimelec Mercado Abbasov, Namig |
| author_facet | Pranto, Protik Bose Islam, Minhazul Saha, Ripon Kumar Rivera, Abimelec Mercado Abbasov, Namig |
| contents | Cultural infrastructures, such as libraries, museums, theaters, and galleries, support learning, civic life, health, and local economies, yet access is uneven across cities. We present a novel, scalable, and open-data framework to measure spatial equity in cultural access. We map cultural infrastructures and compute a metric called Cultural Infrastructure Accessibility Score (CIAS) using exponential distance decay at fine spatial resolution, then aggregate the score per capita and integrate socio-demographic indicators. Interpretable tree-ensemble models with SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) are used to explain associations between accessibility, income, density, and tract-level racial/ethnic composition. Results show a pronounced core-periphery gradient, where non-library cultural infrastructures cluster near urban cores, while libraries track density and provide broader coverage. Non-library accessibility is modestly higher in higher-income tracts, and library accessibility is slightly higher in denser, lower-income areas. |
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| spellingShingle | From Hubs to Deserts: Urban Cultural Accessibility Patterns with Explainable AI Pranto, Protik Bose Islam, Minhazul Saha, Ripon Kumar Rivera, Abimelec Mercado Abbasov, Namig Computers and Society Machine Learning I.2.m Cultural infrastructures, such as libraries, museums, theaters, and galleries, support learning, civic life, health, and local economies, yet access is uneven across cities. We present a novel, scalable, and open-data framework to measure spatial equity in cultural access. We map cultural infrastructures and compute a metric called Cultural Infrastructure Accessibility Score (CIAS) using exponential distance decay at fine spatial resolution, then aggregate the score per capita and integrate socio-demographic indicators. Interpretable tree-ensemble models with SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) are used to explain associations between accessibility, income, density, and tract-level racial/ethnic composition. Results show a pronounced core-periphery gradient, where non-library cultural infrastructures cluster near urban cores, while libraries track density and provide broader coverage. Non-library accessibility is modestly higher in higher-income tracts, and library accessibility is slightly higher in denser, lower-income areas. |
| title | From Hubs to Deserts: Urban Cultural Accessibility Patterns with Explainable AI |
| topic | Computers and Society Machine Learning I.2.m |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07475 |