Doing Global Urban Research

John Harrison is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. He is an urban-regional geographer interested in how large urban and regional spaces are conceptualized and mobilized politically. His recent publications have focused on global urban and regional governance. He is also co-editor of Planning and Governance of Cities in Globalization (Routledge, 2013) and Megaregions: Globalization's New Urban Form? (Edward Elgar, 2015), as well as an editor of the journal Regional Studies. Michael Hoyler is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. He is an urban geographer interested in the transformation of cities and metropolitan regions in contemporary globalization. His recent publications have focused on (world) city and city-regional network formation. He is also co-editor of Global Urban Analysis (Earthscan, 2011), the International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities (Edward Elgar, 2012), Cities in Globalization (Routledge, 2013) and Megaregions: Globalization's New Urban Form? (Edward Elgar, 2015).

Chapter 1: Making Sense of the Global Urban - John Harrison & Michael Hoyler Chapter 2: Visualizing the Planetary Urban - Nikos Katsikis Chapter 3: Exploring the World City Network - Peter J. Taylor & Ben Derudder Chapter 4: Analysing Cities as Networks - Zachary P. Neal Chapter 5: Examining Global Urban Policy Mobilities - Cristina Temenos & Kevin Ward Chapter 6: Tracking the Global Urbanists - Donald McNeill & Andrea Pollio Chapter 7: Engaging with Global Urban Governance - Michele Acuto Chapter 8: Evaluating Global Urban Sustainability - John Lauermann Chapter 9: Scrutinizing Global Mega-Events - Christopher Gaffney, Sven Daniel Wolfe & Martin Mueller Chapter 10: Studying Global Gentrifications - Hyun Bang Shin Chapter 11: Researching the Global Right to the City - David Wachsmuth Chapter 12: Constructing Global Suburbia, One Critical Theory at a Time - Roger Keil Chapter 13: Comparative Ethnographic Urban Research - Tim Bunnell Chapter 14: Doing Longitudinal Urban Research - Katherine V. Gough Chapter 15: Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban - Mariana Dantas & Emma Hart Chapter 16: Advancing Global Urban Research - Michael Hoyler & John Harrison

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 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 This is a landmark volume addressing the issue of the cumulative global significance and impacts of the majority of the world's population living in cities. Under Harrison and Hoyler's 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 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 Although there are myriad texts about cities, very few provide useful guidance on how and why to research them. Harrison and Hoyler's '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 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