Patrícia Pereira is an urban sociologist and an ethnographer. She is a
researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences of the
NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon.
Currently, she researches, writes, and teaches about gentrification,
displacement, resistance, and everyday life. She can be reached at
ppereira@fcsh.unl.pt
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Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.