Spatially non-stationary relationships between urban residential land price and impact factors in Wuhan city, China

Applied Geography

Volumn 68, Issue , 2016, Pages 48-56

  Hu, Shougeng ^a,b   Yang, Shengfu ^a   Li, Weidong ^c   Zhang, Chuanrong ^c   Xu, Feng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Geographically weighted regression; Impact factors; Non stationary; Residential land price; Wuhan

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; LAND MARKET; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA; HUBEI; WUHAN;

EID: 84955298060     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

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