Music Zones in the United States

This dataset documents 108 music zones across 27 states and 59 cities, collectively hosting 1,423 music venues. It also includes those venues in a master list as well as separate sheets by states and cities. Only areas with five music venues or more were retained. Several metrics are included including square mileage, the distance between outer venues within each music zone, the proximity of the closest venue in each music zone to the downtown area, and the geographical areas covered by the cities associated with these music zones. The measuring tools available within the online version of ArcGIS were used top that effect. The distance measurements were based on a straight-line approach for the sake of data collection efficiency. The dataset curated for this study encompasses a comprehensive range of information, including the names of the music zones, their respective cities and states, the number of zones within each state and city, and the total number of venues within each music zone. The distances between the outer venues facilitating an assessment of walkability, and the proximity of the closest venue in each music zone to the downtown center to evaluate whether a music zone might attract tourists, even if it also remains frequented by local residents. It is important to note that defining an exact geographical extent for a city's “downtown\" is not possible and was approximate.本数据集记录了覆盖27个州、59座城市的108个音乐区域，共计包含1423个音乐演出场馆。数据集不仅提供了收录所有场馆的主列表，还按州和城市分别设置了独立工作表。本次筛选仅保留了拥有5个及以上音乐场馆的区域。 数据集涵盖多项测算指标，包括区域平方英里面积、各音乐区域内外围场馆间的距离、各音乐区域内最近场馆与市中心的距离，以及这些音乐区域关联城市的覆盖地理范围。所有测算均通过在线版ArcGIS (ArcGIS)工具完成，为提升数据收集效率，距离测算统一采用直线距离法。 本研究构建的数据集包含全面的信息维度，涵盖音乐区域名称、所属城市与州、各州及各城市的音乐区域数量，以及各音乐区域内的场馆总数。其中，外围场馆间的距离可用于评估区域步行可达性，而各音乐区域内距离市中心最近的场馆与市中心的距离，则可用于测算该音乐区域对游客的吸引力——即便其同时也深受本地居民青睐。 需要特别说明的是，无法精准界定城市“市中心”的地理范围，仅能采用近似估算的方式。