METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE USE OF LIFE STORIES IN THE RESEARCH OF URBAN CHANGE

Abstract

This paper is a methodological analysis as a result of Bogota´s urban changing and metropolitan’s area in the last twenty years. Fieldwork was based on a research system known as biographic method which includes quantitative information from 1993 and 2005 population census and survey applied within the research area in 2009. This methodology included 66 life histories from Bogotá (Colombia), Barcelona (Spain) and Paris (France). This paper is an analysis about creation of these life histories, which aims at contributing to the understanding of this methodological approaches for future researches in social science fields, particularly in Geography, so that allow to record urban space transformation.