TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ward, Kevin 
TI  -  Researching the city
SN  - 9781446202111
U1  - 23 307.760721
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE, 
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  -  Research Methodology
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research Methodology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Urban
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Introduction
; 2. Designing an urban research project / Kevin Ward; 3. Archival research / Stephen V. Ward
; 4. Interviews / Allan Cochrane
; 5. Urban ethnographic research / Kate Swanson
; 6. Working in the shadow zones of the urban economies : using questionnaires to research hidden populations / Nik Theodore
; 7. Discourse and linguistic analysis / Annette Hastings
; 8. Using diaries to study urban worlds / Alan Latham
; 9. GIS : a method and practice / Matthew W. Wilson
; 10. Worlds through glass : photography and video as geographic method / Bradley L. Garrett
Writing up / Kevin Ward
N2  - 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
ER  -