Geography 4620:
Final Exam 1998

Land Use and Urban Form

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Instructions

• Your instructor will inform you which of the following questions you must answer. One blue book should be adequate, but you may use up to two (2) blue books. You have been required to bring at least one blue book to class on exam day without any markings, including your name. The blue books will be collected at the start of the exam period, mixed up, and then redistributed. Use only the blue books that have been distributed in class with the instructor's mark on them.

• Each question has equal weight.

Question 1:

• What is spatial equilibrium?
• What is an open city? What is a closed city? How do they differ?

 Question 2:

• Demonstrate, derive and prove the behavior over space of:
• Land values
• Population density
• Composite good
• Urban radius

Question 3:

• What happens in an open city if income increases? Demonstrate, derive and prove!

Question 4:

• Describe for open and closed cities what happens if transportation cost decreases.

Question 5:

• What if we zone density to be less than the market level? Explain and demonstrate.
• What if rents are set near zero, and density is set to be everywhere the same. Explain and demonstrate.

Question 6:

• A county-wide park system has been proposed. The plan includes the construction of parks near Jonesville, which is about fifteen miles west of the Gainesville urban boundary. What would be the expected public response if we build a ten acre park near Jonesville, namely the low density distant urban fringe, as opposed to the urban core of Gainesville? Explain.

(c) 1998. Grant Ian Thrall. Gainesville FL. All rights reserved.