Cities are home to a vast array of amenities, from local barbers to science museums and
shopping malls. But these are inequality distributed across urban space. Using Google
Places data combined with trip-based mobility data for Bogot\'a, Colombia, we shed light on
the impact of neighbourhood amenities on urban mobility patterns. Deriving a new
accessibility metric that explicitly takes into account spatial range, we find that a higher
density of local amenities is associated a higher likelihood of walking as well as shorter bus …

Cities are home to a vast array of amenities, from local barbers to science museums and
shopping malls. But these are unequally distributed across urban space. Using Google
Places data combined with trip-based mobility data for Bogotá, Colombia, we shed light on
the impact of neighbourhood amenities on urban mobility patterns. By deriving a new
accessibility metric that explicitly takes into account spatial range, we find that a higher
density of local amenities is associated with a higher likelihood of walking as well as shorter …