CITB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Academic Writing, Eura
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Departments of city and regional planning are often located within professional colleges that group architecture, planning, landscape architecture and other dept. related to the built environment. Urban economists study eco of cities through quantitative methods. Urban sociologists study social aspects of cities through qualitative methods. But both dept. do use other methods. Topics on urban politics has been written by political scientists based on theory and methods political scientist use. Myron orfield mapped metropolitan areas using gis: geographical information systems. Saskia sassaen- sociologist did writings on the global system of cities. Advantage - you get a wide aspect of many courses if you are getting a ph d in. Disadvantage people who study a certain stream like economics, they may tend to see things through a economical perspective. Academic writing about cities is guided by theory logically coherent bodies of principles that are advanced to explain a topic of high level.
