Urban sprawl occurrence under spatially varying agricultural amenities

Thomas Coisnon, Walid Oueslati and Julien Salanié

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, vol. 44, issue C, 38-49

Abstract: This paper presents a spatially explicit model to examine the importance of agricultural amenities as a determinant of the urban and suburban spatial structures. By introducing endogenous agricultural amenities into the classical monocentric model, we provide an intuitive explanation of leapfrog development. We show how urban development patterns highly depend on the intensity of surrounding farms and their ability to produce amenities. We also show that, even in the absence of a particular landscape feature or any exogenous source of amenities, fragmented urban sprawl is a natural development pattern for a city surrounded by a spatially varying agricultural environment.

Keywords: Agricultural amenities; Land development; Urban sprawl; Leapfrog; Open space; Land rent; Farming; Monocentric model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q24 R14 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2013.11.001

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