Researching the city / Ed by Kevin Ward.

Contributor(s):

Ward, Kevin

Publication details: New Delhi: Sage, 2014.Description: viii, 167 pISBN:

9781446202104

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DDC classification:

307.760 72 Q4

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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.

List(s) this item appears in: New Additions November-December 2018

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Mahatma Gandhi University Library General Stacks	307.760 72 Q4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		58930

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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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