Journal
LAND USE POLICY
Volume 109, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105656
Keywords
Costa Rica; Hedonic price model; Urban green spaces; Urban parks
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- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Sweden [NV-05230-14]
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Urban green spaces have a positive impact on residents' well-being and are closely related to property market values. Residents assign high value to undeveloped natural areas, large urban green spaces, and neighborhood parks. The research findings provide insights for urban planning policies.
Urban green spaces increase population wellbeing because they provide for recreational possibilities, as well as with many other benefits that are not related with direct use, like air purification, landscape aesthetics, or flood control. The objective of this paper is to estimate the effect of proximity to and size of urban green spaces on housing market values. We implement a hedonic price model to test the effect of distance from and size of three types of urban green spaces in San Jose, Costa Rica: i. non-developed natural areas, ii. metropolitan parks, and iii. neighborhood parks. The results show that individuals assign substantial value to the restoration of nondeveloped green areas, proximity to large urban green spaces, and size of neighborhood parks. We also found that urban green spaces correlate with those values declared by house owners only, i.e., not by house renters. The results for non-developed natural areas are the opposite of those from developed countries. This paper can help to inform urban planning policies, by giving insights of the effect of urban green spaces in the value of capital assets and human wellbeing. Additionally, we administer our own socioeconomic survey to gather original data on house market prices in developing countries, due to the lack of such data. The paper contributes to the literature by showing the relevance of conducting site-specific studies, and by offering a methodological approach to close the gap in information available on developing countries.
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