Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the
complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview
of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of
disciplines including architectural history art history heritage conservation literary and
cultural studies spatial planning and planning theory geoinformatics urban sociology
economic geography operations research technology studies transport planning aquatic
ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this scope of disciplinary - and increasingly
also interdisciplinary - approaches that allows metropolitan research to address recent
societal challenges of urban life such as mobility health diversity or sustainability.
