Research Methodology in Landscape Architecture
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This book involves the introduction and exploration of problems and opportunities of several basic research methods currently employed in landscape architecture research. Emphasis will be on how researchers identify research topics and develop appropriate research methods. It will also introduce analysis and interpretation of research results. With this caveat, the book provides an array of tools, which includes qualitative and quantitative methods, to make inquiry into landscape architecture research topics and to translate research findings into realistic and usable strategies and solutions. The book builds on the foundation of exploring individual interests for a topical study and how to go about conducting research to address these interests.
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Being the first of its kind this book will help the readers especially students and writers to be able to write papers, theses, dissertations and journal articles in the field of landscape architecture. It explains in very simple terms the various steps and process of a research process. It covers from choosing a research topic, literature review, research methodology, data collection, data analysis, results and discussion, conclusions and recommendations. The readers will be able to grasp very easily the technique of doing research methodology. Beginning from the simple definitions to the final write up this book will guide the reader all the way towards completing the research process. Hundreds of lecturers and students have benefitted from this book and many have successfully written a well defined research papers in landscape architecture and terminal papers on other design based discipline. It has been lauded by university professors, students and paper writers as being timely and helpful in aiding them in writing research papers.