Interurban house price gradient: Effect of urban hierarchy distance on house prices

Urban Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 3317-3335

  Gong, Yunlong ^a   Boelhouwer, Peter ^a   de Haan, Jan ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

China; distance effect; house price gradient; spatial equilibrium; urban hierarchy

Indexed keywords

AMENITY; COST ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN SYSTEM; VALUATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84991704685     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098015608090     Document Type: Article

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