by Michael Hoyler (Author), Michael Hoyler (Author), John Harrison (Author)
Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approach, the challenge that confronts researchers of our increasingly globalized urban studies remains fundamentally the same-how to make sense of urban complexity.
This book confronts this challenge by exploring the various methodological approaches for doing global urban research, including Comparative Urbanism, Social Network Analysis, and Data Visualization. With contributions from leading scholars across the world, Doing Global Urban Research offers a key forum to discuss how the practice of research can deepen our knowledge of globalized urbanization.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
Edition: 1
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 04 Apr 2018
ISBN 10: 1473978572
ISBN 13: 9781473978577
In the exciting recent whirl of theorising cities and urbanisation through new globalised and planetary configurations, empirical underpinnings have often struggled to keep pace. This much needed collection addresses this issue head-on offering a carefully assembled and importantly pluralistic set of tools, techniques and insights to guide and inspire new and enhanced routes into global urban research.
-- Andrew HarrisThis agenda-setting volume provides a cohesive, candid, and conceptually rich perspective on global urban research. Emerging and established scholars share insights about their methods, ethics, and research practices. These interdisciplinary perspectives make Doing Global Urban Research a valuable and provocative resource for researchers interested in global urban analysis.
-- Michael GlassThis is a landmark volume addressing the issue of the cumulative global significance and impacts of the majority of the world's population living in cities. Under Harrison and Hoyler's leadership, Doing Global Urban Research unlocks new intellectual and political territory to reconfigure the debates on why and how cities matter now and into the future.
-- Susan Parnell