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• Title:Research design in urban planning : a student's guide / Stuart Farthing.
  
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• Author/Creator:Farthing, Stuart M., author.
  
• Published/Created:London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, 2016.
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT165.5 .F37 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Research.
  
• Description:xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781446294451 paperback
  1446294455 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  Research design
  Types of research design
  Structure of the book
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  popular conception of science
  Post-positivism
  Box 2.1 Values and the research process
  Hidden assumptions in research: The iceberg model
  Conclusions
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  What sort of discipline is planning?
  What arguments are used in planning policy debates?
  Box 3.1 Types of research question
  Research questions
  Generating research questions: reviewing the literature
  How to recognise research questions in published research
  Research questions, hypotheses and theories
  Creating helpful research questions from initial ideas
  Conclusion
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  Practical justifications for further research: Two examples
  Reviews of literature: Justifying research in academic terms
  Box 4.1 Arguments typically developed by researchers to justify further research
  structure of a literature review
  Box 4.2 Example of a short literature review
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  Scoping research questions
  Box 5.1 Scoping your research questions
  Sampling: data sources and methods
  Sampling and the selection of cases to study
  Sampling methods
  Box 5.2 Example [
  ] Quota sampling as used by Burgess et al. (1988)
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  Starting points
  Causal explanation or understanding?
  Box 6.1 Criteria for assessing the existence of a causal relationship
  Sampling and the selection of cases to study
  Box 6.2 Example [
  ] Theoretical sampling in a study
  Case studies
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  Key issues in the choice of methods
  Interviews and questionnaires
  Ethnography and observation
  Documents
  Official Statistics
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  Qualitative and quantitative data
  Quantitative analysis of survey data
  Box 8.1 Statistical significance of Table 8.3 from Atkinson and Kintrea (2001)
  Qualitative analysis
  Box 8.2 Example of discourse analysis
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  framing of research
  How close should the relationship between academic researchers and practice be?
  generation and analysis of data
  Summary/key lessons
  Exercise
  Further reading
  References
  Key questions
  Key concepts
  Overview
  What is cross-national comparative research in planning?
  Research purposes and research questions
  justification of the question
  appropriate logic for answering the question
  Methods of data generation
  Analysis
  Ethics
  Summary/key lessons
  Further reading
  References.