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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.
Constructing Global Suburbia, One Critical Theory at a Time
Constructing Global Suburbia, One Critical Theory at a Time
Why do suburban research?
Most of what we call urbanization in this so-called century of the ‘urban revolution’ (Lefebvre, 1970 [2003]) is in form and process suburbanization. On a planet that may eventually house ten billion humans, this includes the hundreds of millions who are expected to continue the original rural-to-urban migration and those who leave established cities for the periphery – both displaced populations and privilege seekers. These are worldwide processes that involve a large variety of phenomena from gated communities to squatter settlements, and from single-family home subdivisions to suburban high-rise hubs (Keil, 2013, 2018). Suburbanization includes complex processes of post-suburbanization through which the city ...
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