The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods

Introduction: urban design research
Hesam Kamalipour, Patricia Aelbrecht & Nastaran Peimani

1.1. Researching urban design governance

1.2. Dynamic multiplicity: contexts, perspectives, and timeframes

Ali Madanipour

1.3. Transect-based coding: a methodology

1.4. Exploring the temporal dimension of urban design thinking

1.5. Commoning urban design: a research program

1.6. So the story goes: using narrative to explore social connections in urban space

1.7. Bursting housing bubbles and the agency of urban design activism

1.8. An anthropological way of working with urban design: examples from Africa

1.9. Exploring the agents involved in the urban design process for inclusive public spaces

1.10. Exploring financial agency in neoliberal urban design

2.1. Cognitive mapping as a research method: the childhood city

2.2. Discovering the playful affordances of urban spaces

2.3. Exploring streets as places for social exchange

2.4. Researching the applicability of body language methods in urban design

2.5. Exploring transit morphologies and forms of urbanity in urban design research

2.6. Putting people in place: deconstructing gendered imaginations through mental maps

2.7. Forms of negotiating space inside the Palestinian camp

2.8. Exploring affective infrastructures: a feminist co-production method in urban design

2.9. CPTED: research methods for crime prevention

3.1. From place to assemblage: meanings and morphologies in urban design research

3.2. Phenomenological research methods and urban design

3.3. Researching place attachment

3.4. Exploring the perception of urban environments for sound-driven placemaking

3.5. Researching place in urban design

3.6. Territoriology and the study of public place

3.7. Creating character and identity in the rebuilt city: Investigating post-war Britain

3.8. Researching place history, memory and contested identities in urban design

3.9. Urban design, consilience and placemaking

3.10. On the value of non-understanding in urban research: notes from explorations of significant non-translatables that make Tokyo - Tokyo

3.11. Place writing, site drawing: researching graffiti as a critical spatial practice

4.1. The spatial form and built environment of urban informality: researching informal housing in the Global North

4.2. Researching informal settlements in urban design: documenting urban villages in South China

4.3. The challenges of researching place in informal settlements

4.4. Research by the seat of your pants: the bicycle, the camera, and the sequential case method in studying urban informality

4.5. An urban design framework of informal development stages: exploring self-build and growth in informal settlements

4.6. Exploring informal urbanism

4.7. Understanding how vendors move: mapping spatial informality using grounded theory

4.8. Who authors counter-maps? Lessons from an ethnography of street vending

4.9. Researching the spatial heterogeneity of Informal Street Vending

4.10. Assessing temporary appropriation, informality, and displacement

5.1. Studying the qualities of urban squares

5.2. Designing the urban metaverse: visual analytics for urban design

5.3. Post-occupancy evaluation

5.4. Parameters for action: urban morphology as a framework for research in the built environment

5.5. Modelling, mapping and measuring urban densities

5.6. Fit for all: exploring invitations and imaginaries in urban design research

5.7. Urban design and mapping technologies

5.8. Morpho: urban morphology, performance assessment and urban design

5.9. Green urban futures: researching the performance of urban design

5.10. Exploring transit-oriented urban design

5.11. Form syntax 1.0: an analytical tool assisting urban design via the measuring of urban vitality

5.12. Examining the role of the urban built environment in supporting disaster risk reduction

Jorge León & Magdalena Vicuña

Biography

Hesam Kamalipour is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design, Co-Director of MA Urban Design, and Co-Founding Director of the Public Space Observatory Research Centre at Cardiff University.

Patricia Aelbrecht is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Intercultural Studies and Co-Founding Director of the Public Space Observatory Research Centre at Cardiff University.

Nastaran Peimani is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design, Leader of the Urbanism Research and Scholarship Group, and Co-Founding Director of the Public Space Observatory Research Centre at Cardiff University.

"This new Routledge handbook brings together a remarkable range of scholars, covering a vast range of topics and methods employed in urban design research. As much a snapshot of where we are now and how we've arrived here - as where we are heading in the field - it is a must have for any urban designer's bookshelf."

Tim Townshend, Professor of Urban Design for Health, Newcastle University, UK

"The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods is an expansive exposition of the diverse ways to interrogate and understand the city. The book critically demonstrates the modes by which urban practitioners can engage with city making and brings to sharp focus the unfulfilled potentials Urban Design."

Rahul Mehrotra, founder principal of RMA Architects and John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization at the GSD, Harvard University, US

"This timely book presents a rich variety of approaches and hands on tools and has the format to become a key source of inspiration for researchers, practitioners as well as policy makers. In a world with much shouting and screaming on social media, also when it comes to the build environment, we need dialogue tools and creative approaches. The tools presented in this handbook could serve to create a constructive dialogue around the build environment."

Birgitte Svarre, PhD, CEO, BARK Consulting A/S, Denmark (co-author of How to study public life with Jan Gehl)

"In sum, the Routledge Handbook...evidence[s] both the breadth and depth of urban design research globally. The diversity and strength of the work on offer provides great hope—for an increasingly recognised academic field whose robust knowledge base supports the delivery of more successful, sustainable, and equitable places in wide-ranging contexts. Taking forward this important challenge is a compelling prospect for those of us working within urban design research."

Robert Richardson, Centre for Public Policy, University of Glasgow; review for Urban Design International