Assessing amenity effects of urban landscapes on housing price in Hangzhou, China

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1017-1026

  Wen, Haizhen ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Zhang, Ling ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amenity value; Hedonic price model; Housing price; Urban landscape

Indexed keywords

AMENITY; COST ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING FINANCE; MOUNTAIN REGION; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; HANGZHOU; QIANTANG RIVER; WEST LAKE [HANGZHOU]; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84951825482     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.09.013     Document Type: Article

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