In many countries, the recent history of public policymaking, particularly planning, shows a distinct move away from supposedly "rational" approaches towards a reliance upon more pragmatic procedures. The move is partly a result of similar changing attitudes amongst academics. Despite this new conventional wisdom, some policy analysts warn against ......
This is the first introduction to an area of research which has grown up in recent years, and which has begun to answer Lethaby's call of nearly seventy years ago for a programme of theoretical work on the geometry of architectural plans. The work attempts to show how, given suitable geometric definitions of certain classes of plans, systematic ......
Our present knowledge of the design process is anecdotal and based either on introspection or on transfer of results obtained in other fields. New technologies and new attitudes in society demand that the proactice of architecture become more comprehensive, precise and efficient. This book attempts to provide fundamental theoretical constructs and ......
This volume explores the regression (or structural equation) approach to the analysis of time series data in which the modeller makes an initial specification of a causal structure and then analyzes the data to determine whether there is any empirical support for the specification. The great advantage of time series regression analysis is the possibility for both explaining the past, and predicting the future behaviour of variables of interest. Although this volume does not cover Box-Jenkins types of models for explaining endogenous variables, it does introduce the Box-Jenkins time series method as an alternative to modelling the underlying error processes. As such, the book attempts to partially bridge the gap between the two approaches to the analysis of time to time series data.
This guide provides clear, concise guidance for the researcher dealing with the everyday problems of sampling. Using the Practical Design Approach, the author integrates sampling design into the over-all research design and explains the interrelations between research design and sampling choices. The author takes the perspective of the researcher faced with making sampling decisions, laying out alternatives and the implications of different choices. The author uses a narrative, conceptual approach throughout the book. Mathematical presentations are limited to necessary formulas and examples of calculating using the formulas.
It is not unusual for communication and media researchers to study law or legal issues, nor is it uncommon for legal scholars to study communication law. But it is something of a departure for the two to come together as has been accomplished in this innovative volume. Social Research in Communication and Law is a practical guide for conducting research involving both legal and communication questions. Offering rich citations and examples from existing literature, this engaging volume shows communication law scholars how to make more effective use of the methodologies employed in communication science. Topics addressed include reconciling communication and law, social research approaches to libel and theories pertaining to freedom of expression.
This book elaborates on the distinctive qualities of a global city and focuses on the future of the traditional city, the challenges and opportunities facing the industrial cities and the development of "livable" winter cities in the 20th century. The editors and contributing authors argue that managing rapid urbanization must become a significant professional preoccupation, and that professionals must develop a criteria for assessing "world class" status of particular cities, urban environments, institutions, innovations and even buildings.
This classic text is a comparative political study, based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the Greek concept of civic virtuelture: the political and social attitudes that are crucial to the success of modern democracy in Western nations. Cited extensively, the book was origionall published in 1963.
This textbook is specifically designed to give criminology and law students the elements of social statistics. Using examples entirely from criminology, law and justice research, the authors begin with simple mathematical notation and manipulation and work up through: } definitions of major terms } reading of graphs, charts and tables } theoretical basis of statistics, with discussions of probability, sampling and hypothesis testing. Only when the student has a firm mastery of these basic tools do the authors present some of the basic statistical techniques most commonly used in criminal justice research such as t-tests, correlations, simple regression, ANOVA and measures of association.
