A Survey on “Research Methodology” in Geography and Urban Planning Research, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review the "research method" of research in the field of geography and urban planning. The method of this paper is to assess the structural validity of articles in the field of geography and urban planning. The results show that the most important method used in the field of geography and urban planning, which is "observation", and the most important tool, which is "survey", has been forgotten over time. Today, the imperfect form of quantitative methods in research has dominated. As a result, the expectation of producing knowledge based on the principles of methodology (paradigm, theory and method) is false. In the methodology of geography and urban planning of Iran; how to enter reality (the realities of a city include: social, physical and natural), the model of entering into reality (deductive or inductive), the method of measuring variables in the city (quantitative, qualitative or mixed).

Keywords

• methodology
• planning
• geography
• research
• method