Metropolitan Research: Methods and Approaches

Contents
Introduction
I Metropolitan Space and the Built Environment
Urban Typology, Morphology, Iconography
Exploratory Statistical Analysis of Spatial Structures in Urban Datasets
Spatial Analysis as a Tool for Architectural and Urban Historians
Historic Preservation as Change Management: Methods in Context
Urban Art History: Cultural Heritage, Flâneurs, and Points of Presence
II Metropolitan Functions and Infrastructures
Methods of Central Place Research
Methods for the Identification and Analysis of Clusters in Metropolitan Economies: Overview and Comparative Assessment
Agent-Based Modelling of Infrastructure Systems
Methodologies for Urban Transport Studies
III Metropolitan Resilience, Sustainability, and Health
Disaster Risk and Climate Impact Research
Volunteered Geographic Information for Sustainable Urban Development
Assessing Metropolitan Biodiversity Using Aquatic Environmental DNA Metabarcoding
Concept and Methods in Urban Public Health
IV Metropolitan Culture(s)
Storytelling
Narrative Analysis
Interdiscourse Theory and the Analysis of Collective Symbols
V Interdisciplinary and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Urban Complexity
Comparisons
Urban Modelling: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Delineating and Typifying Urban Neighbourhoods: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Mixed-Methods Monitoring of Large-Scale Urban Development Projects: The Case of Lake Phoenix in Dortmund-Hörde
Contributors