Birmingham's services evidence map dataset

Leach, Joanne M (2018) Birmingham's services evidence map dataset.

Dataset Details

Data creator(s):

Creators	Email	ORCID
Leach, Joanne M	j.leach@bham.ac.uk	orcid.org/0000-0001-7526-624X

Research Data Type:

Dataset

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25500/eData.bham.00000240

Publisher:

University of Birmingham

Funder:

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Keywords:

Urban Living Birmingham, Birmingham, Birmingham UK, city, services, city services, evidence mapping, evidence map

Managing organisational unit:

Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Engineering & Physical Sciences

UoB School, Department or Institute:

Department of Civil Engineering

Date:

1 March 2018

Additional Details

Project/Grant:

EP/P002021/1

Primary language:

English

Collection period:

From	To
1 July 2016	31 December 2016

Temporal coverage:

From	To
1 January 2010	31 December 2017

Data collection method:

Literature review of academic and policy-related documents that met the following criteria: - Spoke to the city-services and city-systems challenges that Birmingham, UK, currently faces. Urban services and systems were defined to include ‘soft infrastructure services and systems’ such as education, health, governance and ecosystem services, as well as ‘hard infrastructure services and systems’ such as energy, water, waste, and transport. - Did not predate 2010 unless they remained the most relevant for the city’s current situation. - Were within the political boundary of the city of Birmingham, UK, including some part thereof; i.e., data and documents did not have to reflect the entire city. Included documents comprised the following. - The Birmingham Development Plan (Birmingham City Council, 2013) and those documents and studies that informed it (83 in total) - Academic studies arising from a Web of Science search, topic search: “Birmingham” and within this “UK”, language: English, timespan: 2010-2016. 426 results returned. 262 relevant documents included. - Other documents that adhered to the selection framework (21 in total).

Data processing and preparation activities:

A spreadsheet was created as follows. 1. Each document was given a unique identifier. 2. Each document was identified as arising from either the policy-related or academic literature. 3. Each document’s primary and secondary area of city service/function focus were recorded as relational topic pairs (e.g., growth and housing, economy and innovation, heritage and conservation, waste and recycling, mobility and accessibility), with the foci arising organically from reviewing the evidence base. The foci were subjected to very little aggregation. 4. Each document’s primary and secondary area of city service/ function focus were aggregated into themes. The themes were those used in the resource-based identification framework. 5. The geographical focus of each document was described as either regional (with specifics listed, such as the West Midlands Combined Authority area), whole city or sub-city (with specifics listed, such as Eastside). Geographical foci were not dis/aggregated to correspond with any official boundaries, such as political boundaries.

Depositing User:

Joanne Leach

Date Deposited:

05 Oct 2018 10:08

Last Modified:

20 Jul 2021 09:22

Available Files

Data

BirminghamServi ... nceMapping.xlsx