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Research design in urban planning : a student's guide / Stuart Farthing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farthing, Stuart M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Research.
- City planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016.
- Summary:
- A short, accessible guide for planning students embarking on a dissertation, taking them from choosing a question right through to analysing results.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. The Design of Planning Research
- Chapter 2. Post-Positivism and Planning Research
- Chapter 3. Policy Issues and Research Questions
- Chapter 4. A Justification For Your Research Question
- Chapter 5. Descriptive Questions: scope, claims, and sampling
- Chapter 6. Explanatory Questions: starting points, claims and sampling
- Chapter 7. Methods of Data Generation in Research
- Chapter 8. Data Analysis
- Chapter 9. Ethics of Research Chapter
- Chapter 10. Cross-National Comparative Research in Urban Planning
- Chapter 11. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781473924048
- 1473924049
- OCLC:
- 932062053
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