The effect of street trees on property value in Perth, Western Australia

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 134-142

  Pandit, Ram ^a   Polyakov, Maksym ^a   Tapsuwan, Sorada ^b   Moran, Timothy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AECOM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Broad leaved trees; Property value; Spatial hedonic model; Street trees

Indexed keywords

URBAN PLANNING;

BROADLEAVED TREES; HEDONIC MODEL; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEIGHBOURHOOD; PERTH , WESTERN AUSTRALIA; PROPERTY VALUE; STREET TREES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

FORESTRY;

DECIDUOUS TREE; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEIGHBORHOOD; PROPERTY MARKET; RESIDENT POPULATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ARECACEAE;

EID: 84871757227     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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