Drawing on studies that used qualitative research techniques of life history and trajectory analysis in different disciplines, the text attempts to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of these techniques in the incorporation of the relational dimension of territory in the definition of public policies and in what we called "sociourbanistic" research. Here, the knowledge about the ways of life of so-called "users" of public policy could represent an important key to locate the citizens on the centrality of the processes in public administration, creating conditions to the prevalence of the inseparable connection between the urban and social fields
Urbanism; Life histories; Trajectory analysis; Public policies; Territory
