Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies.

This book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive and detailed understanding of advanced quantitative methods and to provide guidance on technical writing. Complex material is presented in the simplest and clearest way possible using real-world planning examples and making the theoretical content of each chapter as tangible as possible. Hands-on techniques for a variety of quantitative research studies are covered to provide graduate students, university faculty, and professional researchers with useful guidance and references.

A companion to Basic Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners, Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners is an ideal read for researchers who want to branch out methodologically and for practicing planners who need to conduct advanced analyses with planning data.

Reid Ewing, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and Cities, and columnist for Planning magazine, writing the column "Research You Can Use". He directs the Metropolitan Research Center at the University. He holds master’s degrees in Engineering and City Planning from Harvard University and a PhD in Urban Planning and Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A recent citation analysis found that Ewing, with 24,600 citations, is the sixth most highly cited among 1,100 planning academic planners in North America.

Keunhyun Park, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Landscape Architecture from Seoul National University and a PhD in Metropolitan Planning, Policy, Design from the University of Utah. His research interests include technology-driven behavioral research (e.g. drone, VR/AR, sensor, etc.), behavioral outcomes of smart growth, and active living.