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Researching the city / edited by Kevin Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sage knowledge.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Research--Methodology.
- Cities and towns.
- Sociology, Urban--Research--Methodology.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Cities and towns--Research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2014.
- Summary:
- This practical guide for students focuses on both the city, and the different ways academics research it.
- Contents:
- chapter 1. Introduction
- chapter 2. Designing an urban research project
- chapter 3. Archival research
- chapter 4. Interviews
- chapter 5. Urban ethnographic research
- chapter 6. Working in the shadow zones of urban economies : using questionnaires to research hidden populations
- chapter 7. Discourse and linguistic analysis
- chapter 8. Using diaries to study urban worlds
- chapter 9. GIS : a method and practice
- chapter 10. Worlds through glass : photography and video as geographic method
- chapter 11. Writing up.
- Notes:
- Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on MARC record for print version.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781526401885 (ebook) :
- OCLC:
- 1017713873
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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