Urban green spaces and housing prices: An alternative perspective

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 11, Issue 13, 2019, Pages

  Liebelt, Veronika ^a,b,c   Bartke, Stephan ^a   Schwarz, Nina ^a,d  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Buffer zones; Hedonic pricing; Real estate; Urban green spaces; Valuation

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GREENSPACE; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; LAND EVALUATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION;

GERMANY; LEIPZIG; SAXONY;

EID: 85068692279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su11133707     Document Type: Article

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