The economic impact of greening urban vacant land: A spatial difference-in-differences analysis

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3010-3027

  Heckert, Megan ^a   Mennis, Jeremy ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Difference in differences; Greening; Vacant land

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; GREENSPACE; NEIGHBORHOOD; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873678361     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4595     Document Type: Article

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