Von Thünen's intensity theory, or the formulation of optimum intensity of land uses, has been proposed for several economic conditions using classical, neoclassical, and general approaches. The theory may also be presented through the development of intensity curves, producing the missing spatial element of the theory. The several possible forms of the intensity curve have different relations with von Thünen's crop-theory rent curves, thus producing spatially expanding or shrinking isolated states.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
BannisterG, 1977, “Land use theory and factor intensities”Geographical Analysis9319–339
2.
BarnbrockJ, 1976Ideology and Location Theory: A Critical Inquiry into the Work of J H Von Thünen PhD thesis, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
3.
BeckmannM J, 1972, “Von Thünen revisited: A neoclassical land use model”Swedish Journal of Economics741–7
4.
BenedictE TStipplerH HBenedictM R (Eds), 1935Brinkmann's Economics of the Farm Business (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA)
5.
CasettiE, 1972, “Spatial equilibrium distribution of agricultural production and land values”Economic Geography48193–198
6.
DunnE SJr, 1954The Location of Agricultural Production (University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL)
GarrisonW LMarbleD F, 1957, “The spatial structure of agricultural activities”Annals of the Association of American Geographers47137–144
9.
HallP (Ed.), 1966Von Thünen's Isolated State (Pergamon Press, Oxford)
10.
HooverE M, 1971An Introduction to Regional Economics (Alfred Knopf, New York)
11.
JonesA PMcGuireW IWitteA D, 1978, “A reexamination of some aspects of Von Thünen's model of spatial location”Journal of Regional Science181–15
12.
KatzmanM T, 1974, “The Von Thünen paradigm, the industrial-urban hypothesis, and the spatial structure of agriculture”American Journal of Agricultural Economics56683–696
13.
KellermanA, 1977, “The pertinence of the macro-Thünian analysis”Economic Geography53255–264
14.
KellermanA, 1978, “Determinants of rent from agricultural land around metropolitan areas”Geographical Analysis101–12
15.
KrzymowskiT, 1928, “Graphical presentation of Thünen's theory of intensity”Journal of Farm Economics10461–482
16.
StevensB H, 1968, “Location theory and programming models: The von Thünen case”Papers of the Regional Science Association2119–34
17.
VisserS, 1979, “Comment on land use theory and factor intensities”Geographical Analysis1194–97
18.
VisserS, 1980, “Technological change and the spatial structure of agriculture”Economic Geography56311–319
19.
WebberM J, 1973, “Equilibrium of location in an isolated state”Environment and Planning5751–759
20.
WinsbergM D, 1981, “Intensity of agricultural production and distance from the city: The case of the southeastern United States”Southeastern Geographer2154–63
