Urban Structure, Housing Prices and the Double Role of Amenity: A Study of Nanjing, China

Published in Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2024

Core contribution: This article conceptualizes amenities as having a double role in housing markets: they are independent neighborhood goods that shape price premiums, and they also reveal the underlying urban structure through centers, subcenters, and corridors.

Highlights
  • Moves amenity research beyond a single price-effect interpretation.
  • Shows that amenities can function as both price determinants and urban-structure indicators.
  • Connects housing value surfaces with centers, subcenters, and location-specific amenity effects.
  • Supports planning interpretation of housing prices through spatial structure rather than isolated neighborhood attributes.
Conceptual poster showing amenities as both urban structure signals and housing value premiums
Graphical abstract