Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability

Aims of the course

The course aims at helping doctoral students and students who specialize in the fields of urban research, spatial research or sustainability research to operationalize their research questions, i.e. to plan the research process and to choose the appropriate sampling, data collection, data analysis and evaluation methods for their particular research question. The course is part of the mandatory program of Action 3-1 in the “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS), but it is also open to bachelor and master students at TU Berlin.

Speakers & Topics

• Introduction and Organisation
  • Nina Baur: Introduction and Organisation
  • Thando Tilmann: Science Communication: Blogging – Twitter – Facebook
• Widening Knowledge on Methods and Tools of Social Research and Planning – On Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability
  • Nina Baur: Widening Knowledge on Methods and Tools of Social Research and Planning – On Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability
• Operationalization and Focussing your Research Question
  • Nina Baur: Operationalization and Focussing your Research Question
  • Nina Baur: Focussing your Research Question: Dimensions of Social Inequality
  • Nina Baur: Focussing your Research Question: Substantial Topic
• Sampling and Case Selection
  • Ariane Sept: Sampling: Selecting Cities and Quarters (1)
  • Nina Baur: Sampling: Selecting Cities and Quarters (2): What is a Sampling Unit?
  • Nina Baur: Sampling within a City: Purposeful vs. Random Sampling
• Epistemology
  • Nina Baur & Angela Million: The Problem of Normativity: Methods of Social Research and Planning Methods
  • Nina Baur: Objectivity and Reflexivity: Decolonizing Social Science Methodology
  • Ignacio Castillo Ulloa: Low Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD)
• Types of Data and Data Collection
  • Cornelia Thierbach: Qualitative Methods – Quantitative Methods – Mixed Methods
  • Theresa Vollmer: Ethnography & Videography 
  • Susanne Vogl: Qualitative Interviews
  • Nina Baur: Research-Elicited Quantitative Data: Surveys
  • Nina Baur: Process-Produced Quantitative Data: Digital Data and Public Administrational Data
  • Tim Nebert: GIS 1
  • Tim Nebert: GIS 2
  • Tim Nebert: GIS 3
• Types of Data Analysis
  • Nina Baur: Introduction to Data Analysis: What Goals of Analysis are there?
  • Séverine Marguin: Design-Based, Participatory and Actions-Based Methods
  • Barbara Pfetsch: Design-Based, Participatory and Actions-Based Methods
  • Nina Baur: Assessing Causality
  • Nina Baur: Qualitative Data Analysis (1) 
  • Nina Baur: Qualitative Data Analysis (2)
  • Nina Baur: Qualitative Data Analysis (3)
  • Nina Baur: Quantitative Data Analysis