From elevated freeways to surface boulevards: Neighborhood and housing price impacts in San Francisco

Journal of Urbanism

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-50

  Cervero, Robert ^a   Kang, Junhee ^a   Shively, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amenities; Boulevards; Freeways; Gentrification; Hedonic price impacts; Neighbourhood impacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955106834     PISSN: 17549175     EISSN: 17549183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17549170902833899     Document Type: Article

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