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Metropolitan Research

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This book provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines.
  • 27 September 2022
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Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies, spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology studies, transport planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this scope of disciplinary – and increasingly also interdisciplinary – approaches that allows metropolitan research to address recent societal challenges of urban life, such as mobility, health, diversity or sustainability.
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Pages: 388
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Urban Studies
Publication Date: 27 September 2022
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837663105
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Jens Martin Gurr, born in 1974, is a professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is co-founder and speaker of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the Universitätsallianz Ruhr (KoMet). His research areas include literary urban studies, theories and methods of urban and metropolitan research, model theory, literature and climate change as well as British literature of the 17th to the 21st centuries and contemporary US fiction.
Rolf Parr is professor emeritus of German literature and media studies at the Universität Duisburg-Essen.
Dennis Hardt (Dipl.-Geogr.), born in 1984, is an urban geographer and regional planner in the Department of Regional Development at Regionalverband Ruhr. Before, he was coordinator of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the University Alliance Ruhr (KoMet) and researcher in the Department of Spatial Planning and Planning Theory at Technische Universität Dortmund. His research areas include strategic planning, regional and metropolitan governance, housing and spatial analysis.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 9
Urban Typology, Morphology, Iconography 17
Exploratory Statistical Analysis of Spatial Structures in Urban Datasets 37
Spatial Analysis as a Tool for Architectural and Urban Historians 63
Historic Preservation as Change Management: Methods in Context 75
Urban Art History: Cultural Heritage, Flâneurs, and Points of Presence 91
Methods of Central Place Research 115
Methods for the Identification and Analysis of Clusters in Metropolitan Economies: Overview and Comparative Assessment 135
Agent-Based Modelling of Infrastructure Systems 155
Methodologies for Urban Transport Studies 167
Disaster Risk and Climate Impact Research 187
Volunteered Geographic Information for Sustainable Urban Development 205
Assessing Metropolitan Biodiversity Using Aquatic Environmental DNA Metabarcoding 223
Concept and Methods in Urban Public Health 249
Storytelling 275
Narrative Analysis 289
Interdiscourse Theory and the Analysis of Collective Symbols 299
Comparisons 315
Urban Modelling: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches 325
Delineating and Typifying Urban Neighbourhoods: A Mixed-Methods Approach 343
Mixed-Methods Monitoring of Large-Scale Urban Development Projects: The Case of Lake Phoenix in Dortmund-Hörde 367
Contributors 383