Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text Reader

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader provides readers with tools to conduct research on urbanism, focusing on qualitative research in cities and how it provides insights unable to be captured via quantitative methods.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 392 pages
Publication date: 05 May 2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader delves into the urban realm, offering a street-level perspective to readers. It serves as a valuable resource for conducting research on urbanism, encompassing the diverse experiences of people living in cities. Editors Tyler Schafer and Michael Ian Borer argue that culture plays a pivotal role in understanding urbanism, emphasizing the significance of qualitative research in capturing insights that quantitative methods cannot attain. A carefully curated selection of readings encompasses participant observation, interviews, narrative analysis, visual and sensory methods, and approaches for (re)presenting the city. Each section begins with an introduction from the editors, followed by a Reflection Essay contributed by one of the authors, and concludes with practical exercises that encourage hands-on engagement.

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader delves into the urban realm, offering a street-level perspective to readers. It serves as a valuable resource for conducting research on urbanism, encompassing the diverse experiences of people living in cities. Editors Tyler Schafer and Michael Ian Borer argue that culture plays a pivotal role in understanding urbanism, emphasizing the significance of qualitative research in capturing insights that quantitative methods cannot attain. A carefully curated selection of readings encompasses participant observation, interviews, narrative analysis, visual and sensory methods, and approaches for (re)presenting the city. Each section begins with an introduction from the editors, followed by a Reflection Essay contributed by one of the authors, and concludes with practical exercises that encourage hands-on engagement.

Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader delves into the urban realm, offering a street-level perspective to readers. It serves as a valuable resource for conducting research on urbanism, encompassing the diverse experiences of people living in cities. Editors Tyler Schafer and Michael Ian Borer argue that culture plays a pivotal role in understanding urbanism, emphasizing the significance of qualitative research in capturing insights that quantitative methods cannot attain. A carefully curated selection of readings encompasses participant observation, interviews, narrative analysis, visual and sensory methods, and approaches for (re)presenting the city. Each section begins with an introduction from the editors, followed by a Reflection Essay contributed by one of the authors, and concludes with practical exercises that encourage hands-on engagement.

Weight: 860g
Dimension: 231 x 188 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781506355436