Thickness of Accesessibility

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Desigualdad y Exclusin Urbana:desde una concepcin fija a un anlisis mvil

Movilidad cotidiana urbana y exclusion social urbana en Santiago de ChileProyecto FONDECYTN1090198

Paola Jirn, Investigadora ResponsableFacultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo - Universidad de [email protected]

Workshop Exploring Dimensions of Daily Mobility in the CityUniversidad de Chile - Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo - 25 de agosto 2011

Movilidad cotidiana urbana y exclusion social urbana en Santiago de ChileProyecto FONDECYT N1090198 www.santiagosemueve.com

The Thickness of Accessibility in Santiago de Chile


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Urban Daily

Mobility Approach

Routines or trajectories

Experiences that generate these trajectores

Consequences of the trips

Urban Daily Mobility refers to the ways in

which moving in the city impacts daily lifeand the way in which people relate sociallyto the movement. This involves more thantypes and forms of transport.

This approach implies analysing practicesincluding:

experiences are just as important astravel behaviour.


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Research Objectives

> Identify, describe and compare the forms in which

inhabitants of Santiago access diverse activities, relationsand places through their practices of urban daily mobility.

> Analyse the existing relation between urban daily mobilitypractices carried out by inhabitants of the city of Santiago

and the patterns ofinequality and social exclusion.


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How do we approach

urban daily experience?

Undertand how inequality is experienced in movement from social practice

theory, spatiality and embodiment. Analysis of rhythms, routines, habits thatmake up daily life.

Understand mobility as a manifestation and a cause of inequality.

Inequality in movement understood from the the concept ofaccesibility.

Accesibility: the ability to negotiate time and space to carry out daily activities,maintain social relations and generate places that people require for theirsocial participation.


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Mobility Barriers/

Accesibility

Dimensions

Socio-cultural Conditions (gender, age, life cycle, income)

Financial Physical/

Spatial

Organisational Temporal Abilities and skills Technologial

Activities

(employment,education, health,

recreation)

Social Relations

(networks)

Places (mobile,

fixed, transient)

Accesibility barriers

What are the consequences of mobility? Can mobility be seen as a form ofsocial integration?What accesses are important today? Which barriers should be removed?


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Methodological Approach

Ethnographic approach to daily mobility, main tool: shadowing

Trying tomap spatiality of movement: emotions, corporality, materiality,trajectories, meanings, stretegies.

Importance of revealing not only that inequality exists, but also, how it thisinequality takes place


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Cases


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Accesibility barriers and conditions have spatial

significance, but this requires broadening traditional

approaches that see space as an absolute element,

seen as a stage for the different urban spectacles,

towards a social spatiality, through which space isseen as socially produced individually and collectivelly,

in processes that are mediated by power relations,

and are materiallly or subjectively representated on

space.

Accesibility and Spatiality


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Spatiality is produced within interrelations that oscilate from the

global to the intimate, and everyday life is relational, takes place

at diverse time space scales that escape or overflow the

residential, neighbourhood, borough or even nation state limits.

Different trajectories coexist, allowing multiple and simultaneousexistances and spatialities are not fragmented or isolated for

each individual.

Space is always becoming, never finished or closed. Time is

indivisible from space, as well as understanding that some

spatialities trascend in time, while others are ephimeral and

changing.

Accesibilidad and

Spatiality


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Need to broaden comprehension of accessibility

beyond physical conditions of space that determine or

condition accessibility, restricted to the transport

network in relation to the disposition of urban functions

and land use.

Accessibility requires identifying other barriers that

limit the possibility of accessing the city.

Everyday life experience are relevant to identify

obstacles and possibilities that get constructed from

travel experience.

Accessibility beyond

physical conditions


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Interrelated barriers

Barriers and conditions are relational and dynamic, as

they enter in connection at different time space scales.

Barriers and conditions are multiple, as they enter into

contact with other situations and other peoplestrajectories. They seldom involve an individual

condition, but are constructed from encounters or non

encounters with different personal trajectories. Within

multiple mobilities, particular spatialities of the city

begin to emerge.

Accessibility barriers are not fixed, they are constantly

changing, becoming, in constant transformation and

thus contain diverse thicknesses, that can be

permanent or fleeting.

Intensity and Thickness

Barriers and conditions cannot be defined in a binaryway, as present or absent.

The have various thicknesses in relational was, some

are permanent, independent of scale, while others

acquire thickness and intensity, depending on the

experience of the trip, the appear or disappear, as we

relate to different time space scales.

Intensity and Thickness


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Final reflexions

Degree of intensity of barriers vary in time space.

Accessibility goes beyond physical space.

When resolving barriers, which are more important?

How is connectivity increase related to accessibility?

What costs do people bear in order to improve accessibility.

If barriers are naturalised are they still barriers, unrecognized asbarriers.

Accessibility is an analytical category to analyse urban inequality, from a

mobility point of view.

Accessibility allows subject constructed spatiality to emerge

Some manage to improve their accessibility conditions from the

interdependence of others, social networks impact power relations.


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