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.

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Chapter 1: Making Sense of the Global Urban
Chapter 2: Visualizing the Planetary Urban
Chapter 3: Exploring the World City Network
Chapter 4: Analysing Cities as Networks
Chapter 5: Examining Global Urban Policy Mobilities
Chapter 6: Tracking the Global Urbanists
Chapter 7: Engaging with Global Urban Governance
Chapter 8: Evaluating Global Urban Sustainability
Chapter 9: Scrutinizing Global Mega-Events
Chapter 10: Studying Global Gentrifications
Chapter 11: Researching the Global Right to the City
Chapter 12: Constructing Global Suburbia, One Critical Theory at a Time
Chapter 13: Comparative Ethnographic Urban Research
Chapter 14: Doing Longitudinal Urban Research
Chapter 15: Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban
Chapter 16: Advancing Global Urban Research