@article{ref1,
title="Contextualizing Impressions of Neighborhood Change: Linking Business Directories to Ethnography",
journal="City and community",
year="2008",
author="Joe Schlichtman, John and Patch, Jason",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="273-293",
abstract="This article suggests a research tool, the temporal map, for ethnographers to employ in supplementing the accounts of urban change provided by local informants. Such a map, created using city business directories, can provide an external validity check to ethnographic research. The authors' tool allows urban ethnographers to extend contemporary ethnographic accounts backward to a period prior to the beginning of fieldwork. It provides a geo-temporal contextualization by fitting fragmented, geographically and historically specific ethnographic accounts into a broader area and across a broader period of time. The authors show how two ethnographic case studies were enhanced by such temporal maps. Their cases involve a redeveloped central business district in North Carolina and a gentrified neighborhood in New York City.<p />",
language="",
issn="1535-6841",
doi="10.1111/j.1540-6040.2008.00261.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2008.00261.x"
}