Researching the city / Ed by Kevin Ward.
Publication details: New Delhi: Sage, 2014.Description: viii, 167 pISBN:- 9781446202104
- 307.760 72 Q4
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Designing an urban research project / Kevin Ward -- Archival research / Stephen V. Ward -- Interviews / Allan Cochrane -- Urban ethnographic research / Kate Swanson -- Working in the shadow zones of the urban economies : using questionnaires to research hidden populations / Nik Theodore -- Discourse and linguistic analysis / Annette Hastings -- Using diaries to study urban worlds / Alan Latham -- GIS : a method and practice / Matthew W. Wilson -- Worlds through glass : photography and video as geographic method / Bradley L. Garrett -- Writing up / Kevin Ward.
"This is the practical guide for any student doing urban fieldwork. It explains how to undertake research from the initial idea, through design and implementation, to writing up and representation. Substantive chapters explain all the core methods in detail: Archival Methods; Interviews; Ethnography; Questionnaires; Discourse analysis; Diaries; using GIS; and Visual Methods. Using examples throughout, the text will help students think about fieldwork in relation to real-world evidence"--Publisher's description.
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