Shared landscapes increase condominium unit selling price in a high-density city

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 192, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Belcher, Richard N ^a   Suen, Ester ^a,b   Menz, Sacha ^a,c   Schroepfer, Thomas ^a,d  

^a FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ecosystem service valuation; Hedonic pricing; High density; Tropical vegetation; Urban landscapes; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

APARTMENT HOUSES; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SALES; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; HEDONIC PRICING; HIGH-DENSITY CITIES; LARGE SCALE BUILDINGS; TEMPORAL RANDOM EFFECTS; TROPICAL VEGETATION; URBAN LANDSCAPE; VEGETATED LANDSCAPES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

DESIGN METHOD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA; PRICE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL TIME; TROPICAL FOREST; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 85071442364     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103644     Document Type: Article

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