Urbanity and Residential Land Prices: A State-of-the-Art Review
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Through a review of the state of the art, this research seeks to understand the relationships between socio-spatial attributes that confer urbanity and the price of urban residential land. The concept of urbanity, widely advocated in urban planning, is associated with specific forms of social interaction and spatial attributes. The research aims to identify which attributes impact preferences for residential location, specifying the most recurrent methods and statistical models in literature. Synthesizing the results found in the listed studies, a magnitude indicator is developed to access the impact of each attribute on prices, and the thematic summarization method is used. The conclusion reached is that urbanity is appreciated and positively impacts the real estate market, especially regarding accessibility to employment and consumption centres, as along with functional and social diversity. However, this appreciation may exclude portions of the population unable to pay for the advantages of these urbanity-rich locations.
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