Human Environments Analysis Lab (HEAL)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2015
Journal
Transactions in GIS
Volume
19
Issue
2
First Page
225
Last Page
246
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12089
Abstract
This article presents a methodological model for the study of the space‐time patterns of everyday life. The framework utilizes a wide range of qualitative and quantitative sources to create two environmental stages, social and built, which place and contextualize the daily mobilities of individuals as they traverse urban environments. Additionally, this study outlines a procedure to fully integrate narrative sources in a GIS. By placing qualitative sources, such as narratives, within a stage‐based GIS, researchers can begin to tell rich spatial stories about the lived experiences of segregation, social interaction, and environmental exposure. The article concludes with a case study utilizing the diary of a postal clerk to outline the wide applicability of this model for space‐time GIS research.
Notes
Also available open access in Transactions in GIS at: https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12089