"Location, Location, Location!" the Price Gradient for Vacant Urban Land: New York, 1835 to 1900

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 151-172

  Atack, Jeremy ^a,b   Margo, Robert A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Land prices; New York; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032345121     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007703701062     Document Type: Article

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