Does crime in parks affect apartment prices?

Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 97-121

  Iqbal, Asifa ^a   Ceccato, Vania ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

GIS; green areas; hedonic modelling; offences; spatial error; spatial lag

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927694222     PISSN: 14043858     EISSN: 16512340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14043858.2015.1009674     Document Type: Article

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