‘I Thought… I Saw… I Heard…’: The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces

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“…Such "reading" can be referred not only to the reader's reflectiveness but also to the way researchers "read" urban space themselves. Autoethnography is already used in public spaces research [58]. This human-oriented study complements more conventional methods of research in urban studies such as analysis of secondary data (e.g., public statistics) or GIS spatial analysis.…”