Spatial Accessibility in Urban Regeneration Areas: A Population-Weighted Method Assessing the Social Amenity Provision

Principles of social sustainability serve to guide urban regeneration programmes around the world. Increasingly, upholding these principles is subject qualified evaluation and monitoring. One cornerstones access basic services. This also a strategic operational objective in measures. While indicator-based evaluations accessibility do exist, hitherto they have tended apply descriptive statistics or density parameters only. Therefore, there need for small-scale, regularly updated information on accessibility, such as nearest facility based street networks population density. deficit can often be attributed complex methodological requirements. To meet this need, our article presents method determining spatial services with low data Accessibility measured walking time linked local distribution. More specifically, GIS tools connection land survey are used estimate number inhabitants per building; needed reach four types amenity along network then determined each finally, population-weighted index derived mapped 50-m grid. test method, we investigated areas Dresden, Germany. The results show that freely available geodata, it possible identify neighbourhoods buildings both high densities poor Corresponding maps monitor measures form basis further action.