John Harrison (editor) - Doing Global Urban Research

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Editorial arrangement, Chapter 1 & Chapter 16 John Harrison & Michael Hoyler, 2018

Chapter 2 Nikos Katsikis, 2018

Chapter 3 Peter J. Taylor & Ben Derudder, 2018

Chapter 4 Zachary P. Neal, 2018

Chapter 5 Cristina Temenos & Kevin Ward, 2018

Chapter 6 Donald McNeill & Andrea Pollio, 2018

Chapter 7 Michele Acuto, 2018

Chapter 8 John Lauermann, 2018

Chapter 9 Christopher Gaffney, Sven Daniel Wolfe & Martin Mller, 2018

Chapter 10 Hyun Bang Shin, 2018

Chapter 11 David Wachsmuth, 2018

Chapter 12 Roger Keil, 2018

Chapter 13 Tim Bunnell, 2018

Chapter 14 Katherine V. Gough, 2018

Chapter 15 Mariana Dantas & Emma Hart, 2018

First published 2018

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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, Co-director of UCL Urban Lab and Senior Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies, University College London

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, Senior Lecturer of Urban Studies, University of Pittsburgh

This is a landmark volume addressing the issue of the cumulative global significance and impacts of the majority of the worlds population livingin cities.

Under Harrison and Hoylers 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, Professor of Environmental & Geographical Science, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town

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, Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, University of Amsterdam

Although there are myriad texts about cities, very few provide useful guidance on how and why to research them. Harrison and Hoylers 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, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, The University of Queensland

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, Professor of Urban Studies, University of Luxembourg