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Von Thunen’s Agricultural Land Use Model : 1. Isolated state 2. Single market at center

Rural Geography (Ch.14 pp. 199-201). Von Thunen’s Agricultural Land Use Model : 1. Isolated state 2. Single market at center 3. Market price, p, same for all producers of a given crop 4. Featureless plain 5. Yield per unit acre same everywhere

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Von Thunen’s Agricultural Land Use Model : 1. Isolated state 2. Single market at center

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  1. Rural Geography (Ch.14 pp. 199-201) Von Thunen’s Agricultural Land Use Model: 1. Isolated state 2. Single market at center 3. Market price, p, same for all producers of a given crop 4. Featureless plain 5. Yield per unit acre same everywhere 6. Transportation costs are proportional to distance and invariant to direction 7. Farmers maximize profits

  2. Rural Geography (Ch.14 pp. 199-201) Symbolic model: LR = Y (p-c) - Ytd

  3. Rural Geography (Ch.14 pp. 199-201)

  4. Urban Geography: Urbanization and Location • Urbanization in the 1990s • Urban population as a percent of total population (Fig. 18.6) • low-levels in Sub-Saharan Africa • Variation in urbanization in Southwest Asia/North Africa • Low urbanization in South Asia • Singapore 100 percent urban • Pacific Rim: only Japan, S. Korea, and Taiwan are highly urbanized.

  5. Urban Geography: Urbanization and Location

  6. Urban Geography: Urbanization and Location • Urbanization in the 1990s • Distribution of Great World Cities (Fig. 18.7) • Western Europe, N. America, E. Asia • Regional megalopolis in S. Florida • Urban complex in Germany’s Ruhr-Rhine zone • Randstad in Netherlands • megalopolitan development in Japan.

  7. Urban Geography: Urbanization and Location

  8. Urban Geography: Urbanization and Location • Urbanization in the 1990s • Megacities • Many of largest cities in poorer countries • By 2025, 15 cities with more than 20 million. • Stand alone cities in developing countries • Conurbations in developed countries • By 2025 New York will no longer be among the world’s 10 largest cities. • Fast growing cities in Asia, Africa, and South America

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