Concepts and Techniques in Urban Analysis

Concepts and Techniques in Urban Analysis
Author: 'Bola Ayeni
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351600869

This book, first published in 1979, discusses the concepts, models and techniques used in urban analysis and planning. This study reviews many of the older concepts and models of urban spatial structure, laying the foundations of analysis carried out in the later parts of the book. Topics such as social area analysis, urban economic activity and spatial interaction are considered. This comprehensive study of geography and planning presents a distinctive contribution to the understanding of the nature of the city and its inherent problems.

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners
Author: Reid Ewing
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2020-03-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000036448

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies. This book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive and detailed understanding of advanced quantitative methods and to provide guidance on technical writing. Complex material is presented in the simplest and clearest way possible using real-world planning examples and making the theoretical content of each chapter as tangible as possible. Hands-on techniques for a variety of quantitative research studies are covered to provide graduate students, university faculty, and professional researchers with useful guidance and references. A companion to Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners, Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners is an ideal read for researchers who want to branch out methodologically and for practicing planners who need to conduct advanced analyses with planning data.

Selected Methods of Planning Analysis

Selected Methods of Planning Analysis
Author: Xinhao Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811528268

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the fundamental methods related to planning and human services delivery. These methods aid planners in answering crucial questions about human activities within a given community. This book brings the pillars of planning methods together in an introductory text targeted towards senior level undergraduate and graduate students. Planning professionals will also find this book an invaluable reference.

Decision-making in Urban Planning

Decision-making in Urban Planning
Author: Ira M. Robinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1972
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

"The systematic presentation of this book follows in a formal way a well established paradigm of the planning process. It deals with the setting of goals, the formulation of alternatives, the prediction of outcomes, and the evaluation of the alternatives in relation to the goals and the outcomes." From foreward.

Urban Planning Methods

Urban Planning Methods
Author: Ian Bracken
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317833260

In order to develop and exercise their skills urban planners need to draw upon a wide variety of methods relating to plan and policy making, urban research and policy analysis. More than ever, planners need to be able to adapt their methods to contemporary needs and circumstances. This introductory textbook focuses on the need to combine traditional research methods with policy analysis in order to understand the true nature of urban planning processes. It describes both planning methods and their underlying concepts and principles, illustrating applications by reference to the daily activities of planning, including the assessment of needs and preferences of the population, the generation and implementation of plans and policies, and the need to take decisions related to the allocation of land, population change, employment, housing and retailing. Ian Bracken also provides a comprehensive guide to the more specialized research literature and case studies of contemporary urban planning practice. This book was first published in 1981.