Center for Urban Ethnography
University of California, Berkeley: Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
The Center for Urban Ethnography's broad mission is to promote and support interdisciplinary research on urban issues using participant-observation and allied techniques. In this regard, the Center has two mandates: research and training. The primary objective in the area of research is to provide in-depth understanding of issues and problems facing urban environments throughout the world. In the area of training, the primary goal is to instruct undergraduate and graduate students in the principles and techniques of various schools of ethnography.
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Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning
Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy.
The primary aims of the journal are to analyze and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.
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Catherine Fennell explores sensory politics through the context of heat use in Chicago public housing projects.
April 27, 2011
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
Research Center for Urban Cultural History
University of Massachusetts Boston
The Research Center for Urban Cultural History (RCUCH) premises its work on the multi-disciplinary study of cities as dynamic sites where cultures are generated, renegotiated and transmitted. Housed within an institution of higher learning with a commitment to an urban mission and an exceptionally diverse student body, and located in a city richly endowed with intellectual resources, the RCUCH initiates and facilitates scholarly and teaching projects that explore a wide array of possible links between studies of cities in the U.S. and throughout the world, encompassing both contemporary and historical topics. The Center's educational, scholarly, and outreach activities are directed toward achieving a flexible, comprehensive and innovative approach to urban cultural history in a global context.
The Center's principal focus is on interdisciplinary and collaborative research and teaching in urban cultural history. This field focuses on: the specificity of the urban setting and its environs; spatial definition; demographic and economic shifts; temporal change; cultural exchange and cultural transformation; and discursive and signifying networks created by the production of meaning between groups and populations.
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Researchers found that different cities shaped people’s identities in different ways.
October 09, 2012
Filed under: New & Noteworthy
University of Pennsylvania Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
The Center for Urban Ethnography (CUE) was founded in 1969 with a major grant from the Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems of the National Institute of Mental Health. CUE moved to the Graduate School of Education in 1976, where it undertook a series of funded research projects, including studies of urban literacy, urban neighborhood studies and research on a range of urban issues. The expertise of the staff and faculty associates of the Center for Urban Ethnography is nationally recognized in the areas of practitioner research, ethnographic research design, school/community studies, qualitative evaluation and technical assistance, and monitoring classroom instruction and learning environments.
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Urban Affairs Center
University of Toledo
The UAC works with clients to develop and conduct surveys to facilitate analysis and policy-making. The UAC develops an approach customized to serve the needs of clients which include: local governments, non-profits, community organizations, and researchers.
We can develop all aspects of survey research projects, or we can provide just the piece a client needs:
We assist in initiating a survey research and facilitate SBE IRB process
We construct data collection instruments.
We conduct data collection activities (online surveys, focus groups, mail surveys, etc.).
We analyze the results.
We report results.
We can help you develop a programmatic or policy response to the results of your research.
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Urbanities
Urbanities is an international academic peer-reviewed journal. The Editorial and Scientific Boards reflect the journal’s aims and broad ethnographic spread, and include international scholars who specialize in different ethnographic and theoretical fields.
Urbanities aims at publishing original articles on research at the forefront of the discipline, at exploring new trends and debates in Urban Anthropology that promote critical scholarship in international anthropology and at highlighting the contribution of urban research to the broader society. Articles published in the journal are ethnographically based and address theoretical, methodological or public issues concerning all aspects of urban research. Urbanities is also committed to promoting debate between socio-cultural anthropology and biological anthropology as well as between anthropology and other cognate disciplines.
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Will shrinking the city save Detroit?
The recent census indicates that Detroit lost 237,500 residents, or 25% of the 2000 population, over the past ten years. The city also lost 25% of its jobs since 2000—over 498,000 positions. The rapid decline of what was once the nation’s fourth largest city has motivated Detroit government officials, city planners, and community members to propose a radical solution: make the city smaller.
April 11, 2011
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