The rent gap at the metropolitan scale: New York city's land-value valleys, 1990-2006

Urban Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 385-405

  Porter, Michael ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Gentrification; Land value; Rent gap

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; GENTRIFICATION; LAND TENURE; METROPOLITAN AREA; RENT SEEKING;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77649095765     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.31.3.385     Document Type: Review

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