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Place Based Research

Tips for researching neighborhoods, buildings, historic districts, and more. Covers architectural, historical, and socio-political dimensions of place-based research and use of archival, library, and web materials.

Place Based Research

When you study a place, you learn about different disciplines and how they intersect in space and time

Place based research is often used as a way to situate a broader inquiry in a local environment. Because place based research can take many forms and involve different disciplines it's important to develop a clear, specific research question in order to determine what kinds of sources you should consult. 

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What is Interdisciplinary Research?

A 2004 National Academies' report defines Interdisciplinary Research as "a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice."