A Qualitative Methodological Approach Through Field Research

Life in the city is often chaotic and fast-paced. It is as quick as a television dinner. Often, people are forgetting the art of appreciation. Things go unnoticed like a pebble under a shoe, like sparkling windows on corporate buildings. Now, people are typically giving more time to their technological devices- which is not necessarily a terrible thing. If anything, it speaks more of an imbalance. There is a wider disconnect in every day social interactions (communications) and public spaces (location). It has been noted by a creator of public spaces, Goldberger, that people are “there but not there”. They have closed themselves off from experiencing what is right in front of them. For example, the average adult spends seven hours on a technological

Public spaces are social spaces where social phenomena happens, different activities leading to different social relations and interactions. Spaces with own rhythms of use and regulations that one can discover or rediscover in different cultural context.10 steven To understand how architecture can activate public spaces through play to make social spaces, spaces for public life, this paper first investigates how architecture defines the nature of a public spaces with the possibility of engaging public into play. Then, the paper discuss how play can engage people to redefine spaces and find something that have in common with others. And finally, how people can obtain their freedom through playing in a space will be explored. To do so, the

Public space can easily be changed if you belong to certain minority groups that are stereotyped and devalued, such as being a person of color. Brent Staples describes his “ability to alter public space in ugly ways” in his essay “Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space” (239). Racial profiling is still a discernible issue in America and Staples’ essay is a perfect example of the damaging effects racial profiling has on people of color. He recounts the event that caused him to become aware of the change his presence creates in public and the steps he took to help people not fear him during the walks he took at night to help battle his insomnia.

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(Dorsey & Mulder, 2013) It increases “eyes on the streets” which sociologist, Jane Jacobs, believes is essential when re-thinking city spaces as they allow people to take care of each other. This BIA has a fair amount of people walking around tending to their everyday business. Because it is located near residential areas, it is not unusual to see small families exploring the BIA or people walking around at night which increases the efforts alongside vehicle traffic to lower the chances of something wrong, such as a crime, from occurring in the

Think back to the last time you walked through a busy street. After making it through the crowd, you may have noticed that there was a crowd of people surrounding something, which turned out to be a street vendor and their wares. You may have viewed it as a nuisance which benefited your life in no shape or form, but have you ever taken into consideration the vendor and their life? In Mitchell Duneier 's ethnographic novel Sidewalk, he researches the lives of these very street vendors. Duneier spent years involved in the street vendor lifestyle so he could collect his data for his work. His results show that vendors are necessary to the city life and sometimes choose that lifestyle, rather than the other way around. This is introduced to the reader through the various people he met during his research. In spite of Duneier standing out in this lifestyle as a white male, he allows the vendors, which are primarily black males, to tell their stories from their own perspectives. When Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier was released, he was an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California at Santa Barbara. To observe the lives of those who lived and/or worked on the sidewalk, Duneier used a variety of research methods to compile the information necessary for him to answer the questions behind life on the sidewalk of Greenwich Village, New York City. Over the course of five years which he

The city is a nexus of social interaction. Humans originating from various locations all tangle together in the city. Louis Mumford characterizes the city as “a theater of social action,” where “man's more purposive activities are focused and work out…into more significant culminations.” The social actions occurring in a city connect and gradually culminate into a something that contributes to the fabric of the city. The interactions between people are no longer discrete events in isolation. Instead they come together to contribute something to the city, whether in the form of politics, architecture, or entertainment. The city provides a theater or playground for social action, and subsequently becomes a stage where the results of the social actions can be clearly viewed.

The world has been evolving as quickly as the population has grown. As the years progressed, the habitual lifestyle has transformed from spread out house and land living to city and suburban occupation. Along with the living style, cities have progressed from just roads and buildings to multifunctional spaces with copious possibilities. Federation Square in the ‘heart of the city’ is an example of how a space in the city vastly contributes to the visual culture of Melbourne. Times Square in New York also displays how what was previously an intersection of roads, has been transformed into a visual landmark. Melbourne city had always lacked a functional public space ever since its birth.

In addition, she extends the idea of eyes upon the street showing that using and watching the street not only guarantees the safety, but it makes the street more attractive. She argues: “the sight of people attracts still other people” (37). Here, she points out the fact that people like watching other people and activities around them. Nobody likes places where there is nothing to see or to do. Interesting streets are attractive because we see different people, and different activities or businesses. In short, the more a street is frequented, the more it is secure and interesting and vice-versa. Safe streets and sidewalks contribute to the economic expansion of the city and the social fulfillment of people. Then we can conclude that safety is a one of primordial factor to the social and economic development of the city.

William Whyte’s excerpts on “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” was an interesting read. After reading the text I watched the film to reinforce what I had read. Although the film was recorded a couple of decades ago, it was very informative. I learned that many factors, such as sittable space, streets, the sun, food, water, trees, and triangulation, all have effects on how public space is utilized. The insight about public space that I found most interesting in the film was triangulation. I have never heard of this term before today, even though I experience it almost everyday. I definitely agree with Whyte in that triangulation brings people together, even if they are strangers.

I am a firm believer that being able to sit in a public space is a top priority when considering where to spend one’s time. Someone that has to run back and forth between places while at work would like to have a break and sit, not stand. If the plaza is particularly busy and there is no seating available, the individual will probably walk to another plaza close by and settle for a less pleasant area just so they can sit. When watching the film, it did not surprise me that a gentleman settled for sitting on a fire hydrant. The gentleman probably had a long day at work and just wanted to read the paper before heading home for the day. Lastly, it was interesting to learn that the most common activity in a public space is people watching, I would

According to many studies, social interaction is consistently proven as correlated with health. This research has been successful in proving the number of benefits resulting from these human relationships such as; reduced stress levels, lower blood pressure, and cognitive health. In order to facilitate these interactions, many place makers aim to reject the increase of inhospitable environments and rather implement environments that promote socialization. In his book, Street Reclaiming, David Engwicht successfully expresses the ways in which we can foster these spontaneous exchanges

The objective of this research is to examine the normalization of work that is centered around child abuse. This is a qualitative ethnographic study of Children and Youth caseworkers and supervisor, as well as my own experience working at Children and Youth. The research will be centered on the examination of emotional capital, occupational selection, socialization, and identity. My research will interview assessment and treatment caseworkers and supervisors, in order to explore the four concepts mentioned above. Comparing similarities or differences with the two separate departments, within Children and Youth, and management (supervisors) versus caseworkers, can help understand why some workers are successful and why some choose to leave

Space that is documented and utilized by humans, whether directly or indirectly, takes on a basic level of social utility and cultural construction. As Elias Canetti would suggest, the prospect of touch carries with it the risk of being taken and subsequently assimilated or digested (1). The predecessors to the first great urban parks in the United States, namely country estates, cemeteries, and town squares or plazas, all contribute some aesthetic and related ideological basis for a newly emerging discourse of urban parks. Parks were seen as the “poor-man’s countryside,” in reference to the country estates of the wealthy. Also, cemeteries were the first naturalistic open spaces consistently built within urban boundaries. The idea of the commons and town square is perhaps the most telling predecessor of the city park.