The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods

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As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It is now a decisive moment for urban design to reflect on its rigour and relevance. This handbook is an attempt to seize this moment for urban design to further develop its theoretical and methodological knowledge base and engage with the question of "what urban design can be" with a primary focus on its research.

This handbook includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars across the global North and global South to provide a more field-specific entry point by introducing a range of topics and lines of inquiry and discussing how they can be explored with a focus on the related research designs and methods. The specific aim, scope, and structure of this handbook are appealing to a range of audiences interested and/or involved in shaping places and public spaces.

What makes this book quite distinctive from conventional handbooks on research methods is the way it has been structured in relation to some key research topics and questions in the field of urban design regarding the issues of agency, affordance, place, informality, and performance. In addition to the introduction chapter, this handbook includes 80 contributors and 52 chapters organised into five parts.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781000917635
Print ISBN
9780367768058
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2023-08-24
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

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  • Cover
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: urban design research
  • PART I Agency
  • 1.1 Researching urban design governance
  • 1.2 Dynamic multiplicity: contexts, perspectives, and timeframes
  • 1.3 Transect-based coding: a methodology
  • 1.4 Exploring the temporal dimension of urban design thinking
  • 1.5 Commoning urban design: a research programme
  • 1.6 So the story goes: using narrative to explore social connections in urban space
  • 1.7 Bursting housing bubbles and the agency of urban design activism
  • 1.8 An anthropological way of working with urban design: examples from Africa
  • 1.9 Exploring the agents involved in the urban design process for inclusive public spaces
  • 1.10 Exploring financial agency in neoliberal urban design
  • PART II Affordance
  • 2.1 Cognitive mapping as a research method: the childhood city
  • 2.2 Discovering the playful affordances of urban spaces
  • 2.3 Exploring streets as places for social exchange
  • 2.4 Researching the applicability of body language methods in urban design
  • 2.5 Exploring transit morphologies and forms of urbanity in urban design research
  • 2.6 Putting people in place: deconstructing gendered imaginations through mental maps
  • 2.7 Forms of negotiating space inside the Palestinian camp
  • 2.8 Exploring affective infrastructures: a feminist co-production method in urban design
  • 2.9 CPTED: research methods for crime prevention
  • PART III Place
  • 3.1 From place to assemblage: meanings and morphologies in urban design research
  • 3.2 Phenomenological research methods and urban design
  • 3.3 Researching place attachment
  • 3.4 Exploring the perception of urban environments for sound-driven placemaking
  • 3.5 Researching place in urban design
  • 3.6 Territoriology and the study of public place
  • 3.7 Creating character and identity in the rebuilt city: investigating post-war Britain
  • 3.8 Researching place history, memory and contested identities in urban design
  • 3.9 Urban design, consilience, and placemaking
  • 3.10 On the value of non-understanding in urban research: notes from explorations of significant non-translatables that make Tokyo – Tokyo
  • 3.11 Place writing, site drawing: researching graffiti as a critical spatial practice
  • PART IV Informality
  • 4.1 The spatial form and built environment of urban informality: researching informal housing in the Global North
  • 4.2 Researching informal settlements in urban design: documenting urban villages in South China
  • 4.3 The challenges of researching place in informal settlements
  • 4.4 Research by the seat of your pants: the bicycle, the camera, and the sequential case method in studying urban informality
  • 4.5 An urban design framework of informal development stages: exploring self-build and growth in informal settlements
  • 4.6 Exploring informal urbanism
  • 4.7 Understanding how vendors move: mapping spatial informality using grounded theory
  • 4.8 Who authors counter-maps? Lessons from an ethnography of street vending
  • 4.9 Researching the spatial heterogeneity of informal street vending
  • 4.10 Assessing temporary appropriation, informality, and displacement
  • PART V Performance
  • 5.1 Studying the qualities of urban squares
  • 5.2 Designing the urban metaverse: visual analytics for urban design
  • 5.3 Post-occupancy evaluation
  • 5.4 Parameters for action: urban morphology as a framework for research in the built environment
  • 5.5 Modelling, mapping and measuring urban densities
  • 5.6 Fit for all: exploring invitations and imaginaries in urban design research
  • 5.7 Urban design and mapping technologies
  • 5.8 Morpho: urban morphology, performance assessment, and urban design
  • 5.9 Green urban futures: researching the performance of urban design
  • 5.10 Exploring transit-oriented urban design
  • 5.11 Form Syntax 1.0: an analytical tool assisting urban design via the measuring of urban vitality
  • 5.12 Examining the role of the urban built environment in supporting disaster risk reduction
  • Index