RESEARCHING THE CITY : A Guide For Students /
"This practical guide for students focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it. The authors explain how urban studies research is done, from the original idea to design and implementation, through to writing up and representation. Substantive chapters explain each method in det...
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| description | "This practical guide for students focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it. The authors explain how urban studies research is done, from the original idea to design and implementation, through to writing up and representation. Substantive chapters explain each method in detail, from using archival methods, interviews, ethnography, questionnaires, discourse analysis and diaries, to using GIS and visual methods."-- |
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| spelling | KOHA-OAI-TEST:5929832021-10-31T01:00:16ZRESEARCHING THE CITY : A Guide For Students / Ward, Kevin, 1969-, editor 564608 textLondon ; Los Angeles : SAGE,2020©2020eng"This practical guide for students focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it. The authors explain how urban studies research is done, from the original idea to design and implementation, through to writing up and representation. Substantive chapters explain each method in detail, from using archival methods, interviews, ethnography, questionnaires, discourse analysis and diaries, to using GIS and visual methods."--Includes bibliographical references and index.1 Introduction by Kevin Ward -- 2 Designing an urban research project by Kevin Ward -- 3 Archival research by Stephen V. Ward -- 4 Interviews by Allan Cochrane -- 5 Urban ethnographic research by Kate Swanson -- 6 Using questionnaires to survey hidden populations by Nik Theodore -- 7 Discourse and linguistic analysis by Annette Hastings -- 8 Using diaries to study urban worlds by Alan Latham -- 9 GIS: a method and practice by Matthew Wilson -- 10 Worlds through glass: photography and video as geographic method by Bradley L. Garrett -- 11 Researching urban life through social media by Susan Moore and Scott Rodgers -- 12 Mapping the urban experience digitallyby Monica Degen and Manuela Barz -- 13 Writing up by Kevin Ward."This practical guide for students focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it. The authors explain how urban studies research is done, from the original idea to design and implementation, through to writing up and representation. Substantive chapters explain each method in detail, from using archival methods, interviews, ethnography, questionnaires, discourse analysis and diaries, to using GIS and visual methods."--PSZ_JBSociology, UrbanCities and townsURN:ISBN:9781529700954 |
| spellingShingle | Sociology, Urban Cities and towns Ward, Kevin, 1969-, editor 564608 RESEARCHING THE CITY : A Guide For Students / |
| title | RESEARCHING THE CITY : A Guide For Students / |
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