The ‘Blind Area’ of the city: Drawing shopping-boundaries for people with vision impairments
Authors
Ieva EskyteSession
P1. Walking, navigating and waitingDate and Time
2014-06-16, 12:00 - 13:45Room
MA 10Abstract
The paper examines how the streets’ infrastructure of X city, in Lithuania, and the legacy of a former dependency to the Soviet Union determine ‘no go’ areas in the city and shape the ‘map’ of the private market, inhabited by people with vision impairments and blind people.