Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which the accessibility of various public and private facilities associate neighborhood socio-economic status in Osaka metropolitan area, where socio-economic residential segregation is relatively clearly, from a perspective of social equity in the era of growing economic disparities. First, measuring the nearest distance to facilities, we found that accessibility to facilities are not always disproportionately distributed between socio-economic groups: for only several facilities there were substantial inequalities in accessibility between different socio-economic groups, but the magnitude and significance vary according to the type of facilities and population density. Second, using cluster analysis we identified that socio-economically disadvantaged areas without good accessibility of facilities are spatially concentrated in the metropolitan area. Our findings suggest that there remain some neighborhoods that should be addressed to equalize access to facilities (particularly public services).
