Stanovanja so osnovna potreba in eden glavnih inštrumentov socialne politike. Stanovanjska gradnja v mestih, zlasti v starih mestnih jedrih je v 80. letih postala osrednji socialni problem. V zaodrjem desetletju opažamo izrazit razvoj kvalitativnih metod predvsem kot protest proti statističnim poprečjem in kvantitativnemu raziskovanju. Kulturološka analiza, je kot interdisciplinarna in kompleksna metoda uporabna povsod tam, kjer se z prenovo ali izgradnjo poskuša fizično in drugače recivilizirati neko območje oziroma skupnost. Močan poudarek je na participaciji Uporabnost, korist in učinki metode so ponazorjeni na treh primerih. Urban dwellings are a basic need and one of the main instruments of social policies. Housing in cities and especially inner cities became a major social problem in the 1980s. In the last decade we can notice a rapid development of qualitative methods, as an answer to predominant statistical averages and quantitative research. Culturological analysis, which is an interdisciplinary and complex method, is useful wherever rehabilitation and development are used to physically or otherwise recivilize an area or society. Participation is strongly emphasized. The possibilities and benijits of the method are presented in three examples.