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Revisiting the Concept of Accessibility: Some Comments and Research Questions

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Information, Place, and Cyberspace

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Almost all urban systems in developed countries are undergoing a number of institutional, socio-economic and cultural changes, pushing them towards a ‘new’ societal configuration that is generally taken to be more democratic, better educated, culture-based, and environmentally sensitive, i.e., the so-called Post-Fordist society (Aminl994). Space-adjusting technologies, and particularly the New Information Technologies (NIT), are playing a substantial role in this transition, since they affect both the range and time-related organization of activities offered in an urban setting, as well as the ways in which individuals participate in them (see Castells 1989, Graham and Marvin 1996).

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Occelli, S. (2000). Revisiting the Concept of Accessibility: Some Comments and Research Questions. In: Janelle, D.G., Hodge, D.C. (eds) Information, Place, and Cyberspace. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04027-0_17

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