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.

About the Author
John Harrison is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. He is an urban-regional geographer interested in how large urban and regional spaces are conceptualized and mobilized politically. His recent publications have focused on global urban and regional governance. He is also co-editor of Planning and Governance of Cities in Globalization (Routledge, 2013) and Megaregions: Globalization's New Urban Form? (Edward Elgar, 2015), as well as an editor of the journal Regional Studies. Michael Hoyler is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. He is an urban geographer interested in the transformation of cities and metropolitan regions in contemporary globalization. His recent publications have focused on (world) city and city-regional network formation. He is also co-editor of Global Urban Analysis (Earthscan, 2011), the International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities (Edward Elgar, 2012), Cities in Globalization (Routledge, 2013) and Megaregions: Globalization's New Urban Form? (Edward Elgar, 2015).

Reviews

In the exciting recent whirl of theorising cities and urbanisation through new globalised and planetary configurations, empirical underpinnings have often struggled to keep pace. This much needed collection addresses this issue head-on offering a carefully assembled and importantly pluralistic set of tools, techniques and insights to guide and inspire new and enhanced routes into global urban research.

-- Andrew Harris

This agenda-setting volume provides a cohesive, candid, and conceptually rich perspective on global urban research. Emerging and established scholars share insights about their methods, ethics, and research practices. These interdisciplinary perspectives make Doing Global Urban Research a valuable and provocative resource for researchers interested in global urban analysis.

-- Michael Glass

This is a landmark volume addressing the issue of the cumulative global significance and impacts of the majority of the world's population living in cities. Under Harrison and Hoyler's leadership, Doing Global Urban Research unlocks new intellectual and political territory to reconfigure the debates on why and how cities matter now and into the future.

-- Susan Parnell
The cities of the world and the world of cities have transformed rather dramatically in the past half century. Instead of offering rather frictionless theorizing on these changes, this volume offers a very useful and highly reflective guide to do actual empirical research on a wide range of topics related to global urban studies. -- Robert C. Kloosterman
Although there are myriad texts about cities, very few provide useful guidance on how and why to research them. Harrison and Hoyler's 'Doing Global Urban Research' does just that: it provides novice and seasoned scholars alike with a range of approaches to researching cross-cutting urban themes at the global scale. Highly recommended to those interested in researching cities from geographical, sociological, historical, and/or planning disciplinary lenses, particularly as looking 'across' methodological and theoretical perspectives has great potential to enhance research bridging the global and urban scales. -- Thomas Sigler
While globalization has become a common subject of the social sciences, the practice of doing global urban studies has been neglected so far. This book provides a good sense of how to deal with this, both for students and researchers. -- Markus Hesse



Book Information
ISBN 9781473978577
Author John Harrison
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 460g