Understanding gentrification: an empirical analysis of the determinants of urban housing renovation
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A study of the process called housing renovation, which accompanies gentrification and constitutes a significant portion of residential housing investment is presented. Gentrification is undeterred by housing vacancy, especially in the early stages when renovators purchase and renovate abandoned buildings that are usually deteriorated but structurally sound.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2003
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New urbanism and housing values: a disaggregate assessment
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A formal analysis of the virtues of new urbanism, a movement that hailed as the most significant movement in urban planning and architecture is presented. Results suggesting that some but not all of the design features of new urbanism provide benefits for which urban residents are wiling to pay.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2003
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Duality in comparative statics in rental housing markets with indivisibilities
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Factors affecting rent changes in the housing market are analyzed with reference to the Tokyo housing sector.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2006
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