Urban sprawl: neighbourhood dissatisfaction and urban preferences. Some evidence from Flanders

Urban Geography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 839-862

  De Vos, Jonas ^a   Van Acker, Veronique ^a,b   Witlox, Frank ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

neighbourhood preferences; Neighbourhood satisfaction; urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

NEIGHBORHOOD; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN SPRAWL;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

EID: 84955088942     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2015.1118955     Document Type: Article

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