Reframing Accessibility: Mapping Physical, Informational and Symbolic Access to Public Space in Lazdynai
Abstract
The chapter explores how the transition from socialism to post-socialism in Lazdynai, Vilnius can be understood as, and analysed through, changing modes of accessibility of space and places. For the authors, not only have the hilly landscape and an ageing population brought a new urgency to problems of physical accessibility, but post-socialism in the district is also marked by new barriers to informational and symbolic access.
However dimensions of informational and symbolic accessibility are essential for our theoretical understanding of possible exclusion of certain groups of people (e. g. elderly, people on parental leave, people with disabilities) and for the assessment of empirical evidence of interaction with and within urban space and places.