Urban Research Methods Books

New and Published Books

1. Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism

   By Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert, Andreas Novy

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within a globalized world. The main argument put forward is that current mainstream analyses...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Interpretive Research Design

   Concepts and Processes

   By Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Dvora Yanow

   Series: Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods

   Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. New Approaches to Qualitative Research

   Wisdom and Uncertainty

   Edited by Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major

   Qualitative research has seen a surge of growth during the past decade. This is in large part because positivist approaches have not yielded the kinds of results that had been anticipated, and more researchers are seeking alternative perspectives to understand phenomena. The number of researchers...

   Published April 6th 2010 by Routledge
4. Global Gender Research

   Transnational Perspectives

   Edited by Christine Bose, Minjeong Kim

   Series: Perspectives on Gender

   Readers of Global Gender Research will learn to compare and contrast feminist concerns globally, gain familiarity with the breadth of gender research, and understand the national contexts that produced it. This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist...

   Published February 1st 2009 by Routledge
5. GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences

   Coding, Mapping, and Modeling

   By Robert Nash Parker, Emily K. Asencio

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry. The book contains a wealth of examples as to why...

   Published July 9th 2008 by Routledge
6. Evaluation Practice

   How To Do Good Evaluation Research In Work Settings

   By Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson

   Professional accountability has become central to both public and private sectors. Governments have emphasized and even developed empirical models, logic modeling, and evidence-based practice in the programs they support, and not-for-profit, for-profit and NGO entities increasingly rely on...

   Published December 25th 2007 by Routledge