Researching the city

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"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"--Publish…

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Full title :Researching the city / edited by Kevin Ward.

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Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SAGE
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:viii, 167 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 25 cm

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ISBN:9781446202104, 1446202100, 1446202119, 9781446202111, 9781526401885, 1526401886
oclc:ocn858825127
LC Classification:HT110
Dewey Decimal:307.76072

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.

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