%0 Journal Article
%T AN ANALYSIS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOUSING VALUES AND HOUSE-SPECIFIC FACTORS AND ITS NEIGHBOURING AMENITIES IN TURKEY
%A B¨¹£¿ra GEZ£¿KOL
%A Hakan TUNAHAN
%A Sinan ESEN
%J -
%D 2019
%X In the twentieth century, the societies have been transformed from a predominately agricultural society to an industrial and knowledge based economy centered in metropolitan cities. And people have adopted a crowded and auto-centric life. This new system has enabled the creation of new high welfare segments in the societies by increasing the asset prices rapidly, and generated important opportunities in the socio-economic area. However, rapid urbanization has also led to distorted urbanization. One of the trends in response to this chaos is New Urbanism Approach. As a result of New Urbanism and similar movements, city planning has become important and practices which simplify and enrich the lives of residents have been implemented through legal regulations. These regulations and approaches have led to the addition of new ones to the factors affecting the prices of housing in the cities. One of these factors is the possibility of walking to daily living activities such as schools, stores, parks and libraries. These facilities which can be measured by various instruments used in developed countries have an increasing importance in determining the housing price. The housing sector has an important engine in the economic growth of the countries. For this reason, the decision-makers closely follow the construction sector and the housing market and keep the market alive in case of stagnation risk by decreasing tax, interest and transaction fees. But it has been observed that walkability as a factor causing price increases is addressed as a variable in a limited way. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the effect of walkability and other specific factors on housing prices. The cities have become more walkable and in this way, it has become important for the city residents to reach the living spaces and social areas. This situation has become particularly essential in housing prices. There are many factors affecting walking and walkability. Especially, socio-demographic characteristics play a key role. For example, residents with more mobility options are more responsive to amenities around them, and are more sensitive than those with fewer options (Manaugh and El©\Geneidy, 2011: 312). In addition, the value of walkability is influenced by pedestrian collision, the ability to connect to streets, length of pavements, speed limit and similar factors (Li et. al., 2014: 162). Walkability of cities is measured by various walkability indices. There are also studies about walkscore which is a new and most widely used dynamic that affects housing prices and
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%K Walkscore
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/jobs/issue/43545/510405