“…The second section, in turn, presents a peculiar methodology for addressing the issue based both on Lefebvre’s regressive-progressive method, which this author developed in order to cope in operational and conceptual terms with the relations between historical time and (body-) space, and on Goffman’s phenomenological approach to the rules of conduct in situations of verbal and non-verbal interaction (1963, 1967, 1970, 1983a, 1983b). Indeed, this has helped me in analytical terms in the framework of wider documentary and ethnographic researches on the everyday ‘bodily’ experiences of pedestrians in the São Paulo downtown streets and squares from the early 19th to the 21st centuries (Frehse, 2005, 2011, 2013a, 2013b, 2013c, 2014, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, forthcoming; Frehse and Vidal, 2016).…”