An urban-rural happiness gradient

Urban Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 871-883

  Berry, Brian ^a   Okulicz Kozaryn, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

black white cleavage; general social survey; happiness; life satisfaction; urban gradients; Wirth's model

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION; SMALL TOWN;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053328618     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.32.6.871     Document Type: Article

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