Identifying priority target areas for the Knoxville-Knox County hillside and ridgetop protection plan: Using the value of visual amenity during the real estate boom of 2002-2007 and the recession of 2008

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 911-934

  Chadourne, Matthew ^a   Cho, Seong Hoon ^a   Roberts, Roland K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMENITY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; HILL; HOUSING MARKET;

KNOX COUNTY [TENNESSEE]; KNOXVILLE; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878112261     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: 14320592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-012-0519-z     Document Type: Article

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