ABSTRACT
Introduction Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania (536.000 inhabitants in 2011), was greatly reshaped by processes of massive industrialisation and urbanisation during the communist period (Vanagas et al. 2002). The post-1990 period was also characterised by massive urban transitions triggered by reforms to a market-led neo-liberal economy (Aidukaitė 2014; Brade et al. 2009). These recent transitions resulted in an annihilation of public-housing policies and fast urban sprawl, stimulated by loosely regulated suburbanisation. At the same time fundamental changes took place in the Lithuanian society and economy, resulting in a changing occupational structure and an increase in social inequalities. It is likely that these inequalities also have a spatial dimension, but to date there has been no systematic research into the changing socio-spatial patterns of post-communist Vilnius.
