DOI: 10.22217/upi.2015.315
The Craft of “Doing Research” in Planning

Elisabete A. Silva, Patsy Healey, Neil Harris, Pieter Van den Broeck

Keywords: Planning Research Methods; Spatial and Regional Planning; Intellectual Traditions in Planning

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This paper focuses on “doing research” within the discipline of spatial and regional planning. There are some important differences of research methods in the planning field and other spatial disciplines. The paper addresses on followings: (1) the argument for focusing on research in the planning discipline; (2) the specificities of doing research in spatial and regional planning; (3) intellectual traditions in planning and their impacts on research practices; (4) epistemological and ethical sensibility in planning research; (5) research in practice: the interaction between research and practice.


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