The geographic model describing how the intensity of land use declines with increasing distance from a central market is what model?

The geographic model describing how the intensity of land use declines with increasing distance from a central market is what model?

• A. Von Thünen Model
• B. Bid Rent Theory
• C. Central Place Theory
• D. Ricardian Model

Answer: (A)

This model shows how land use intensity drops as you move away from a central market because transportation costs climb and land rents fall with distance. Picture a featureless plain with a market at the center. Farmers arrange what to grow based on profit, and the most profitable, high-value or perishable crops stay closest to the market where transport is quickest and costs are lower. That proximity keeps land rents high and use intensive near the center. As you go farther out, transport costs erode profits for those high-value crops, so land is used more extensively or shifted to less demanding uses, creating concentric rings of varying land use around the market. Bid Rent Theory also deals with how rents change with distance to the city center, but it focuses on where different urban land users locate along a line and how rents are bid for those locations, not the circular pattern of agricultural land use. Central Place Theory explains how settlements organize themselves and the distribution of service areas, not how agricultural intensity changes with distance from a market. The Ricardian Model centers on differences in land fertility and productivity, not distance to a market.

This model shows how land use intensity drops as you move away from a central market because transportation costs climb and land rents fall with distance. Picture a featureless plain with a market at the center. Farmers arrange what to grow based on profit, and the most profitable, high-value or perishable crops stay closest to the market where transport is quickest and costs are lower. That proximity keeps land rents high and use intensive near the center. As you go farther out, transport costs erode profits for those high-value crops, so land is used more extensively or shifted to less demanding uses, creating concentric rings of varying land use around the market.

Bid Rent Theory also deals with how rents change with distance to the city center, but it focuses on where different urban land users locate along a line and how rents are bid for those locations, not the circular pattern of agricultural land use. Central Place Theory explains how settlements organize themselves and the distribution of service areas, not how agricultural intensity changes with distance from a market. The Ricardian Model centers on differences in land fertility and productivity, not distance to a market.