Metropolitan Research: Methods and Approaches

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Metropolitan Research

Methods and Approaches

Edited by: Jens Martin Gurr , Rolf Parr and Dennis Hardt
Funded by: Stiftung Mercator and Universität Duisburg-Essen

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839463109

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

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Raumforschung Raumordnung, 1-2 (2023), John Harrison

Supplementary Materials

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Jens Martin Gurr, Rolf Parr and Dennis Hardt Open Access Download PDF	9
I Metropolitan Space and the Built Environment
Urban Typology, Morphology, Iconography Wolfgang Sonne Open Access Download PDF	17
Exploratory Statistical Analysis of Spatial Structures in Urban Datasets René Westerholt Open Access Download PDF	37
Spatial Analysis as a Tool for Architectural and Urban Historians Cornelia Jöchner Open Access Download PDF	63
Historic Preservation as Change Management: Methods in Context Ingrid Scheurmann Open Access Download PDF	75
Urban Art History: Cultural Heritage, Flâneurs, and Points of Presence Barbara Welzel Open Access Download PDF	91
II Metropolitan Functions and Infrastructures
Methods of Central Place Research Thomas Terfrüchte Open Access Download PDF	115
Methods for the Identification and Analysis of Clusters in Metropolitan Economies: Overview and Comparative Assessment Matthias Kiese Open Access Download PDF	135
Agent-Based Modelling of Infrastructure Systems Johannes Weyer, Marlon Philipp and Fabian Adelt Open Access Download PDF	155
Methodologies for Urban Transport Studies Regine Gerike and Joachim Scheiner Open Access Download PDF	167
III Metropolitan Resilience, Sustainability, and Health
Disaster Risk and Climate Impact Research Stefan Greiving Open Access Download PDF	187
Volunteered Geographic Information for Sustainable Urban Development Andreas Rienow Open Access Download PDF	205
Assessing Metropolitan Biodiversity Using Aquatic Environmental DNA Metabarcoding Kamil Hupało, Till-Hendrik Macher, Robin Schütz and Florian Leese Open Access Download PDF	223
Concept and Methods in Urban Public Health Susanne Moebus Open Access Download PDF	249
IV Metropolitan Culture(s)
Storytelling Julia Sattler Open Access Download PDF	275
Narrative Analysis Julia Sattler Open Access Download PDF	289
Interdiscourse Theory and the Analysis of Collective Symbols Rolf Parr Open Access Download PDF	299
V Interdisciplinary and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Urban Complexity
Comparisons Julia Sattler Open Access Download PDF	315
Urban Modelling: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches Jochen Gönsch and Jens Martin Gurr Open Access Download PDF	325
Delineating and Typifying Urban Neighbourhoods: A Mixed-Methods Approach Thomas Terfrüchte and Susanne Frank Open Access Download PDF	343
Mixed-Methods Monitoring of Large-Scale Urban Development Projects: The Case of Lake Phoenix in Dortmund-Hörde Susanne Frank, Verena Gerwinat, Ulla Greiwe and Jörg Peter Schmitt Open Access Download PDF	367
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	383

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 388
Keywords: Metropolitan Research; Methods; Interdisciplinarity; Sustainability; City; Social Geography; Cultural Geography; Space; Geography

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Published: September 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839463109