The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods

Hesam Kamalipour is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design, Co-Director of MA Urban Design, and Co-Founding Director of the Public Space Observatory Research Centre at Cardiff University. Patricia Aelbrecht is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Intercultural Studies and Co-Founding Director of the Public Space Observatory Research Centre at Cardiff University. Nastaran Peimani is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Design, Leader of the Urbanism Research and Scholarship Group, and Co-Founding Director of the Public Space Observatory Research Centre at Cardiff University.

Introduction: urban design research
Hesam Kamalipour, Patricia Aelbrecht & Nastaran Peimani

PART 1: AGENCY

1.1. Researching urban design governance

Matthew Carmona

1.2. Dynamic multiplicity: contexts, perspectives, and timeframes

Ali Madanipour

1.3. Transect-based coding: a methodology

Emily Talen

1.4. Exploring the temporal dimension of urban design thinking

Olgu Çalışkan & Egbert Stolk

1.5. Commoning urban design: a research program

Stavros Stavrides

1.6. So the story goes: using narrative to explore social connections in urban space

Troy D. Glover & Rebecca F. Mayers

1.7. Bursting housing bubbles and the agency of urban design activism

Thomas Markussen

1.8. An anthropological way of working with urban design: examples from Africa

Claire Panetta & Suzanne Scheld

1.9. Exploring the agents involved in the urban design process for inclusive public spaces

Müge Akkar Ercan

1.10. Exploring financial agency in neoliberal urban design

Francisco Vergara-Perucich

PART 2: AFFORDANCE

2.1. Cognitive mapping as a research method: the childhood city

Tridib Banerjee

2.2. Discovering the playful affordances of urban spaces

Quentin Stevens

2.3. Exploring streets as places for social exchange

Vikas Mehta

2.4. Researching the applicability of body language methods in urban design

Patricia Aelbrecht

2.5. Exploring transit morphologies and forms of urbanity in urban design research

Nastaran Peimani

2.6. Putting people in place: deconstructing gendered imaginations through mental maps

Shilpa Ranade & Shilpa Phadke

2.7. Forms of negotiating space inside the Palestinian camp

Samar Maqusi

2.8. Exploring affective infrastructures: a feminist co-production method in urban design

Catalina Ortiz, Yael Padan, Belen Desmaison, Judith Mbabazi, Jane Rendell, Vanesa Castán Broto, Paul Isolo Mukwaya, & Teddy Kisembo

2.9. CPTED: research methods for crime prevention

Miguel Saraiva & Ana Verónica Neves

PART 3: PLACE

3.1. From place to assemblage: meanings and morphologies in urban design research

Kim Dovey

3.2. Phenomenological research methods and urban design

David Seamon

3.3. Researching place attachment

Maria Lewicka

3.4. Exploring the perception of urban environments for sound-driven placemaking

Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, & Jian Kang

3.5. Researching place in urban design

Gethin Davison & Ian Woodcock

3.6. Territoriology and the study of public place

Andrea Mubi Brighenti & Mattias Kärrholm

3.7. Creating character and identity in the rebuilt city: Investigating post-war Britain

Peter J. Larkham

3.8. Researching place history, memory and contested identities in urban design

Ross King

3.9. Urban design, consilience and placemaking

Mahyar Arefi & Amir Tayyebi

3.10. On the value of non-understanding in urban research: notes from explorations of significant non-translatables that make Tokyo - Tokyo

Darko Radović

3.11. Place writing, site drawing: researching graffiti as a critical spatial practice

Konstantinos Avramidis

PART 4: INFORMALITY

4.1. The spatial form and built environment of urban informality: researching informal housing in the Global North

Vinit Mukhija

4.2. Researching informal settlements in urban design: documenting urban villages in South China

Stefan Al

4.3. The challenges of researching place in informal settlements

Gabriela Quintana Vigiola

4.4. Research by the seat of your pants: the bicycle, the camera, and the sequential case method in studying urban informality

Gordon C. C. Douglas

4.5. An urban design framework of informal development stages: exploring self-build and growth in informal settlements

Jota Samper

4.6. Exploring informal urbanism

Hesam Kamalipour

4.7. Understanding how vendors move: mapping spatial informality using grounded theory

Kiran Keswani & Banashree Banerjee

4.8. Who authors counter-maps? Lessons from an ethnography of street vending

Francesca Piazzoni

4.9. Researching the spatial heterogeneity of Informal Street Vending

Lautaro Ojeda Ledesma

4.10. Assessing temporary appropriation, informality, and displacement

J. Antonio Lara-Hernandez & Abraham Echazarreta

PART 5: PERFORMANCE

5.1. Studying the qualities of urban squares

Jon Lang & Nancy Marshall

5.2. Designing the urban metaverse: visual analytics for urban design

Andy Hudson-Smith & Michael Batty

5.3. Post-occupancy evaluation

Mike Biddulph

5.4. Parameters for action: urban morphology as a framework for research in the built environment

Karl Kropf & Regina Lim

5.5. Modelling, mapping and measuring urban densities

Elek Pafka

5.6. Fit for all: exploring invitations and imaginaries in urban design research

Rachel Berney

5.7. Urban design and mapping technologies

Ole B. Jensen, Lea Holst Laursen & Signe Hald

5.8. Morpho: urban morphology, performance assessment and urban design

Vítor Oliveira

5.9. Green urban futures: researching the performance of urban design

Steffen Lehmann

5.10. Exploring transit-oriented urban design

Weichang Kong & Dorina Pojani

5.11. Form syntax 1.0: an analytical tool assisting urban design via the measuring of urban vitality

Yu Ye, Dan Qiang & Wei Zeng

5.12. Examining the role of the urban built environment in supporting disaster risk reduction

Jorge León & Magdalena Vicuña