Pricing accessibility: Urban morphology, design and missing markets

Progress in Planning

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 77-111

  Webster, Chris ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Open space; Property rights; Space syntax; Urban design; Urban morphology

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SPACE; PRICING POLICY; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 77950367384     PISSN: 03059006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.progress.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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