1st Edition
Seeing the City Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- or exclusion, gentrification, or social mobility; others biological evolution, traffic flows, or spatial development. Many combine these topics or add still more topics beyond... Read more
1 Introduction - Nanke Verloo and Luca Bertolini, 2 Quantitative data collection: A meta view - Willem Boterman, 3 Urban ethnography and participant observations: Studying the city from within - Nanke Verloo, 4 Sensing the city through new forms of urban data - Achilleas Psyllidis, 5 Interviewing in urban research - Fenne M. Pinkster, 6 Digging in the crates: Archival research and historical primary sources - Tim Verlaan, 7 Reading spaces: A cultural analysis approach - Daan Wesselman, 8 The practice of institutional analysis in urban contexts - Federico Savini, 9 Household preferences and hedonic pricing - Hans R.A. Koster and Jan Rouwendal, 10 Urban research in another dimension: methods for modelling historical cities - Claartje Rasterhoff, 11 Mapping the city: Geographic Information Systems and science in urban research - Rowan Arundel, 12 Methods for studying urban biodiversity - Gerard Oostermeijer, 13 Action research in the city: developing collaborative governance arrangements for the urban commons - Joachim Meerkerk and Stan Majoor, 14 Streetlabs as a co-creative approach to Research Through Design - STBY (Nina Stegeman, Geke van Dijk, Bas Raijmakers), 15 Too many cities in the city? Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary city research methods and the challenge of integration - Machiel Keestra and Nanke Verloo, 16 Exploring city science - Caroline Nevejan, 17 Conclusions - Luca Bertolini and Nanke Verloo, Glossary, List of contributors.
Biography
Nanke Verloo is Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Conflict at the Department of Human Geography of the University of Amsterdam. Luca Bertolini is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Centre for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
