GEO 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Urban Land, Economic Rent, Production Function

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It depends on the weight and value of the commodity. It depends whether or not the good is perishable; if it is the more perishable the closer it is to the market. All later ideas followed von thunen"s basic premise: a particular piece of land will be used by that activity that can pay the highest net rent. The idea is that every piece of land will get used by or sold to the highest and best use, where. Highest is measured in terms of how much rent (or profit) it can generate, and . Best in terms of which use (or product) can best take advantage of the site"s attributes. Von thumen was very much ahead of his time in his ideas, including the fact that he used a. His landscape was an isolated state or what we would today call a closed economic system. It was an isotropic plain (i. e no difference in fertility transportation, topography, etc)

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