5. Urban Economics

Land Use Theory — Quiz

Test your understanding of land use theory with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

Which effect does increasing the transport cost parameter $t$ have on the residential bid-rent curve in Alonso’s monocentric model?

Question 2

Given the exponential bid-rent function $R(d)=200e^{-0.1d}$, at what distance $d$ does rent decline to half of its central value?

Question 3

For bid-rent functions $R_c(d)=150-5d$ (commercial) and $R_r(d)=90-2d$ (residential), at what distance $d$ do they intersect?

Question 4

In von Thünen’s agricultural land-use model, if the transport cost parameter $k$ for market gardening decreases by 50%, how does the radius of the market gardening ring change?

Question 5

In Christaller’s central place theory using the marketing principle ($K=3$), how many lower-order centers does each market center serve?