June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
558 pages
16h 7m
English
MASAHISA FUJITA1
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The modern theory of urban land use is essentially a revival of von Thünen’s theory [147] of agricultural land use. Despite its significance as a monumental contribution to scientific thought, von Thünen’s theory has languished without attracting the widespread attention of economists for over a century.2 During that time human settlements grew extensively and outpaced the traditional guidance of urban design. It was the outburst of urban problems since the late 1950’s that manifested the urgent need for a systematic theory of urban space and brought back the attention of location theorists and economists to von Thünen’s theory.
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