A multi-method proposal to study the Public Space in the Scale of Neighborhood from a Transactional Approach

Abstract

The transactional perspective is very attractive to analyze and act on public space on the scale of the neighborhood, however, language and methodological differences between the various disciplines involved make it quite complex. In this article we present a multi-method qualitative strategy of analysis that integrates graphical work spatialisation results, as an attempt to bring together the graphic and textual languages that dominate single-discipline approaches of public space.
Various techniques were triangulated and underwent the same analytical process (Grounded Theory), which supported by the processing software Atlas / ti and made it possible to link aspects Arcgis graphics (maps and images) with comments from researchers and biographical accounts of the participants, associating in this manner, specific physical spaces with the development and construction of spatial meanings and uses.