4.1 Case study

ownership of the space and enhance vibrant public life correspondently. This incidental linear park naturally forms a space, collocates attributes of both the public and private, however, the current utilitarian transit function of the space is unitary and mundane. Referring to Sim (2010) thought based on Virginia Woolf’s idea of patterns of ordinary experience and Michael Gardiner (2000), this space has potential to provoke creativity and sense of belonging which would then cultivate community cohesiveness. Gardiner (2000: 199) argues that "Although everyday life can display routinized, static and unreflexively characteristics, it is also capable of a surprising dynamism and moments of penetrating insight and boundless creativity. ", which echos with Jacob’s idea of having diversity for public space. Jacob (1992: 92) perceives the public space as “backdrop” of collective social interaction, which forms socio-spatial networks and diversity of social groups. Diversity itself includes architectural and social aspects.

4. Methodologies

As shared by Creswell (2018), qualitative researchers will gather data from multiple sources to arrive at a definitive conclusion. Our team, as a result employed the following instruments and methods to design this proposal to support the project objectives and hypotheses:

a. Case study b. Structured observation c. Survey d. Interactive-participatory (semi-structured) interview

4.1 Case study

This proposal will use two overseas cases with similar architectural attributes to the linear park to reflect how such places have been reinvented. We recognize that the use of case study has limitations in that places could have similarphysical attributes but vastly different social, cultural, political and economic underpinnings. Nonetheless, our case studies will serve to illustrate the potential and open minds to possibilities for the AMK linear park. The two selected cases, to be elaborated in section 5 – Underline project in Miami and Underway project in Rockaway.