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1
Basic Urban Economics
  • Primary Factors of Production
  • Land
  • Labor
  • Capital
  • Raw Materials
  • Note
  • Mobility
  • Eulers Theorem

2
Location Residual Land Value
  • Value of land is based on..
  • Land
  • Land as Derived Demand
  • Residual Theory of Land Value

3
Consider a Clothing Factory
4
Residual Land Valuation
5
Competition in the Land Market
  • Demand Side
  • Supply Side
  • Equilibrium under perfect competition
  • Pareto Optimality
  • Highest Best Use (HBU)

6
Highest Best Use Example
  • Two Potential Land Uses
  • The previous clothing factory
  • A grocery store
  • Two Available Land Sites
  • Site 1 is the previously-described site for the
    clothing factory
  • Site 2 is closer to most residences, but farther
    from highways

7
HBU Example Continued
Site 1
Site 2
 
 
Clothing Factory
Grocery Store
Clothing Factory
Grocery Store
 
 
Revenues
10,000,000
4,600,000
10,000,000
5,000,000
 
Mobile Factor Costs
9,900,000
4,550,000
9,990,000
4,625,000
 
 
8
Land Rents and Transport Costs
  • Land Rent ? HBU Residual ? Transport Costs
  • Transport costs include
  • Cost to move inputs.
  • Cost to move outputs.
  • Trans.Costs directly borne by seller on site.
  • Trans.Costs indirectly borne by buyers on site.
  • Value of travelers time ( inconvenience) spent
    traveling to/from site.
  • Site 1 minimized transport costs for factory
  • Site 2 minimized transport costs for grocery
    store (considering customers travel costs).

9
Bid-Rent Curve
  • Bid-Rent Maximum land rent a potential user
    would be willing to pay for a given site
    (location). (Equals residual value.)
  • Bid-Rent Curve shows how a potential users
    bid-rent changes as a function of distance from
    some central point.
  • The central point is the point at which
    transport costs are minimized (bid-rent
    maximized) for the given use.
  • Each potential use has its own bid-rent curve
    (and central point).

10
Bid-Rent Example
  • Consider our Factory
  • Central Point highway entrance

11
Bid-Rent Curve w/Multiple Uses
Use A Most productive use, Most sensitive to
transport costs. Use C Least productive use,
Least sensitive to transport costs. Each use
prevails where its bid-rent curve is highest.
12
Monocentric City Model
  • Consider a city in which
  • Everyone must commute to one central point
  • Only one use (housing) for urban land
  • Topography is infinitely devlopable in all
    directions i.e., a featureless plain

13
Characteristics of Circlopolis
  • All households must commute to the central point
    (CBD) every day to earn the income they need to
    pay for housing, transportation, and all other
    consumption goods that make them healthy and
    happy citizens.
  • Transportation costs are proportional to the
    distance the good citizens must travel.
  • Circlopolis has constant density at any given
    time within the city.
  • Population 1,000,000
  • Density 2 persons/acre

14
Urban Economics of Circlopolis
  • What is the physical size (sq. miles) of
    Circlopolis?
  • What is the physical extent (radius) of
    Circlopolis?
  • What is the annual property rent at the edge of
    the city?

15
Determining Edge Rents
  • Agricultural (or no-urban use) Opportunity Value
  • 500/Yr/Acre
  • Construction Cost Rent
  • 10,000/Yr/Acre
  • Property Rent

16
Determining Intra-Urban Rents
  • In Equilibrium
  • The sum of annual housing rent annual commuting
    cost must be the same for all residents, no
    matter where they live in Circlopolis. Why???
  • Therefore
  • The slope of the bid-rent curve for housing in
    Circlopolis equals the transportation cost per
    mile per acre. This slope is called the rent
    gradient. It tells you how much land rents
    decline per mile of additional distance from the
    city center, in equilibrium.
  • The land rent gradient equals the transportation
    cost per mile per person times the number of
    people per acre.

17
Land Rent Gradient for Circlopolis
  • Transport costs 250/Yr/person (round-trip
    commuting costs).
  • One person lives in each house (a city of
    loners!).
  • Density is 2 houses (2 inhabitants) per acre
    (1280/Mi2).
  • Land Rent Gradient
  • What will be the monthly rent, 1 mile inside the
    city edge?
  • What will be the montly rent at the city center?

18
Location Rents
  • Rent Opportunity Cost Construction Cost
    Location
  • Opportunity Cost and Construction Cost Rents
  • Location Rent (Rent Gradient) x (Dist. From
    Edge)
  • Note Everyone in Circlopolis pays 9,250/Yr for
    the

19
Land Rents in Circlopolis
20
Equilibrium Rents in Circlopolis
  • What is the property rent (per acre) four miles
    from the urban boundary, 12 miles from the CBD?
  • What are the transportation costs for residents
    at this distance from the center?
  • What are the total costs, per person of locating
    at this site?

21
Monocentric City Model
  • Strengths
  • Limitations???
  • What happens when population changes?
  • What happens when income changes?
  • What happens when transportation costs change?

22
Changes in City Population
  • Population Growth with Constant Density
  • Rent at the periphery (edge) must be the same as
    before.
  • Rent Gradient Must also be the same as before.
  • HENCE
  • Principle 1
  • Other things equal, larger cities will have
    higher average rents.

23
Population Growth Constant Density
24
Urban Economics of Population Growth
  • Suppose Circlopolis Population Increases by 10
  • Holding Density Constant
  • Area must increase by
  • Thus, the citys extent/radius must increase by
  • New Urban Boundary
  • Location Rents
  • At Periphery
  • At City Center
  • Conclusion

25
Population Growth w/ Constant Area
  • Density must !
  • Transport cost per acre
  • Land Rent Gradient
  • Land rent at boundary
  • Land rent increases everywhere, but
    proportionately more in center
  • HENCE
  • Principle 2
  • If a city grows by increasing area rather than
    density, property rent growth will be relatively
    greater closer to the periphery, but if a city
    grows by increasing density instead of area,
    property rent growth will be relatively greater
    the closer to the center of the city.

26
Population Growth Constant Area
27
Transport Cost Reduction
  • Typically results in an increase in land rents
    near the periphery, and a decrease in land rents
    near the center of the city. Why???

28
Transport Cost Reduction
  • Principle 3
  • Declining transport costs (per person, per mile
    or per year) holding population income
    constant, will always reduce the value of land
    rent in the center of the city the effect on the
    land rent near the periphery is generally
    ambiguous, depending on changes in density.

29
Growth in Per Capita Income
  • Two Typical Effects on Urban Form
  • People choose to spend some of their extra income
    consuming more urban land, thereby decreasing
    density ? Reduction in rent gradient.
  • People have higher value of time, thereby
    increasing transport cost ? Increase in rent
    gradient.
  • Conclusion

30
Urban Economics of Income Growth
  • Principle 4
  • Increasing real income per capita (holding
    population constant), will tend to decrease rent
    gradients, with a possible result of absolute
    reductions in land rent at the center of the
    city, though a secondary transport cost increase
    effect (and/or increasing open space reservation)
    due to higher incomes may mitigate this result or
    even reverse it, especially if the spatial
    expansion of the city is constrained.
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