Urbanism as a Way of Life

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Research method in urban studies: principles and guidelines

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The blog attempts to articulate the research method, especially within the field of urban studies. The chart attempts to decode the various knowledge territories that are operative functionally as well as spatially within various research areas. The chart also attempts to acknowledge and recognise such knowledge systems. This also makes tangible links that research in any such knowledge systems are central to various urban discourses that recognise the liveability indexes and sustainability of such characters of the city.   

Methodology is the systematic, theoretical position, approach that is applied to a field of study. It comprises the theoretical analysis and principles associated with a branch of knowledge.

Method is simply a research tool and technique component of conducting research – a qualitative method such as interview or quantitative method such as demographic study are examples of methods.

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Gladys West Modelled the Earth So That We Can Have GPS

The name Gladys West is probably unfamiliar, but she was part of creating something you probably use often enough: GPS. You wouldn’t think a child who grew up on a sharecropping farm would wind up as an influential mathematician, but perhaps watching her father work very hard for very little and her mother working for […]

Gladys West Modelled the Earth So That We Can Have GPS — Hackaday
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Urban Growth underpinned by Livability and Sustainable Growth — MENA-Forum

What drives the shape of cities, and what actions can policymakers take to guide their growth? The authors of Pancakes to Pyramids set out to find out. I am pleased to say that they have succeeded in increasing our understanding of the economic variables that drive urban expansion while challenging conventional wisdom about sprawl. .

Urban Growth underpinned by Livability and Sustainable Growth — MENA-Forum
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