Full Description
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.
Contents
Chapter 1: Making Sense of the Global Urban - John Harrison & Michael Hoyler
Chapter 2: Visualizing the Planetary Urban - Nikos Katsikis
Chapter 3: Exploring the World City Network - Peter J. Taylor & Ben Derudder
Chapter 4: Analysing Cities as Networks - Zachary P. Neal
Chapter 5: Examining Global Urban Policy Mobilities - Cristina Temenos & Kevin Ward
Chapter 6: Tracking the Global Urbanists - Donald McNeill & Andrea Pollio
Chapter 7: Engaging with Global Urban Governance - Michele Acuto
Chapter 8: Evaluating Global Urban Sustainability - John Lauermann
Chapter 9: Scrutinizing Global Mega-Events - Christopher Gaffney, Sven Daniel Wolfe & Martin Müller
Chapter 10: Studying Global Gentrifications - Hyun Bang Shin
Chapter 11: Researching the Global Right to the City - David Wachsmuth
Chapter 12: Constructing Global Suburbia, One Critical Theory at a Time - Roger Keil
Chapter 13: Comparative Ethnographic Urban Research - Tim Bunnell
Chapter 14: Doing Longitudinal Urban Research - Katherine V. Gough
Chapter 15: Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban - Mariana Dantas & Emma Hart
Chapter 16: Advancing Global Urban Research - Michael Hoyler & John Harrison
