TY - BOOK ID - 68903269 TI - Seeing the city : interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of the urban AU - Verloo, Nanke AU - Bertolini, Luca PY - 2020 SN - 9789463728942 9789048553099 9048553091 PB - Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - Cities and towns KW - Research KW - Methodology. KW - Research. KW - Netherlands KW - Sociology of environment KW - Environmental planning KW - Social geography KW - urban sociology KW - gentrification KW - Amsterdam UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68903269 AB - The city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infrastructures, buildings, history, art, or technical networks. Some researchers analyse processes of in- or exclusion, gentrification, or social mobility; others biological evolution, traffic flows, or spatial development. Many combine these topics or add still more topics beyond this list. Some projects cross the boundaries of research and practice and engage in action research, while others pursue knowledge for the sake of curiosity. This volume embraces this variety of perspectives and provides an essential collection of methodologies for studying the city from multiple, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives. We start by recognizing that the complexity of the urban environment cannot be understood from a single vantage point. We therefore offer multiple methodologies in order to gather and analyse data about the city, and provide ways to connect and integrate these approaches.The contributors form a talented network of urban scholars and practitioners at the forefront of their fields. They offer hands-on methodological techniques and skills for data collection and analysis. Furthermore, they reveal honest and insightful reflections from behind the scenes. All methodologies are illustrated with examples drawn from the authors own research applying them in the city of Amsterdam. In this way, the volume also offers a rich collection of Amsterdam-based research and outcomes that may inform local urban practitioners and policy makers.Altogether, the volume offers indispensable tools for and aims to educate a new generation of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary-minded urban scholars and practitioners. ER -