Are you pleased with your neighborhood? A fuzzy cognitive mapping-based approach for measuring residential neighborhood satisfaction in urban communities

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 130-141

  Ferreira, Fernando A F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants of neighborhood satisfaction; Fuzzy cognitive mapping; Problem structuring; Real estate strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975297781     PISSN: 1648715X     EISSN: 16489179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1648715X.2015.1121169     Document Type: Article

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