Stuart Farthing

Research Design in Urban Planning

A Student's Guide

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A short, accessible guide for planning students embarking on a dissertation, taking them from choosing a question right through to analysing results.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781446294444
• ISBN-10: 1446294447
• Artikelnr.: 43708695

Autorenporträt

Stuart Farthing was Principal Lecturer in the Department of Planning & Architecture, at UWE, Bristol and spent most of his working life in Bristol though he had an international reputation, having been a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Melbourne, Curtin and Murdoch in Australia, the University of Tours in France and University of Hannover in Germany. He was also a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme 'Villes et Territoires' at the University of Tours. His research interests in recent years  have included understanding how planning affects the nature of housing development but also how national housing policies shape changes in planning policy; investigating the changing role of small towns in rural regeneration; and analysing policy-oriented learning in the context of European spatial planning. Stuart has supervised hundreds of dissertations in planning over the years, supervised many PhD students and he played a leading role in the training and supervision of social science doctoral students at UWE Bristol, developing and running the cross-disciplinary Masters in Applied Social Research.

Inhaltsangabe

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 10: Cross-National Comparative Research in Urban Planning
Chapter 11: Conclusion

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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 10: Cross-National Comparative Research in Urban Planning
Chapter 11: Conclusion

Rezensionen

This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and implementation of small-scale student research projects.

Although aimed primarily at planning students, the text is equally relevant to those undertaking similar tasks on other social science and built environment programmes. Chris Couch