Research Design in Urban Planning: A Student's Guide - Paperback

by Stuart Farthing (Author)

A short, accessible guide for planning students embarking on a dissertation, taking them from choosing a question right through to analysing results.

Author Biography

Stuart Farthing was Principal lecturer in Urban Planning in the Department of Planning & Architecture at the University of the West of England, Bristol until his retirement in July 2011. He was the programme leader for the MA Applied Social Research from 1997 until 2011, the then ESRC-recognised cross-disciplinary doctoral training programme at UWE, and leader of the specialist Environmental planning pathway in that degree. Much of his career was spent in Bristol but he also taught at the Universities of Reading and Cardiff in Britain as a specialist in planning methods in the 1980s and early 1990s. Under Erasmus exchange programmes he taught at the Universities of Hannover and Tours and was a visiting researcher in the Department of Planning at the University of Melbourne. His teaching interests were in urban planning research, social research methods, and research methodology. His research interests have been in planning for housing, and, more recently, comparative planning and city region planning.