Is sprawl affordable for Americans?: Exploring the association between housing and transportation affordability and urban sprawl

Transportation Research Record

Volumn 2500, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-79

  Hamidi, Shima ^a   Ewing, Reid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COSTS; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

COVARIATES; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSING AFFORDABILITY; MULTILEVEL MODELING; REMOTE LOCATION; TRANSPORTATION COST; URBAN SPRAWL;

HOUSING;

EID: 84976469104     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: 21694052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2500-09     Document Type: Article

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