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Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approach, the challenge that confronts researchers of our increasingly “globalized” urban studies remains fundamentally the same–how to make sense of urban complexity. This book confronts this challenge by exploring the various methodological approaches for doing global urban research, including Comparative Urbanism, Social Network Analysis, and Data Visualization. With contributions from leading scholars across the world, Doing Global Urban Research offers a key forum to discuss how the practice of research can deepen our knowledge of globalized urbanization.
Visualizing the Planetary Urban
Visualizing the Planetary Urban
Why visualize the planetary urban?
At the beginning of the 21st century, urbanization is widely recognized as a major factor in the extensive social, economic and environmental transformations that have been reshaping life on the planet (Soja and Kanai, 2007). Within this challenging context, one of the most prominent debates in global urban studies today centres on the emerging paradigm of planetary urbanization. Inspired by the writings of Henri Lefebvre (1970 [2003]), in the early 2010s Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid embarked on an intellectual journey to highlight the limitations of the ‘urban age thesis’ (Brenner and Schmid, 2014) and move beyond this to develop a new epistemology of the urban. The agenda was born and cemented ...
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