Land Use and Central Business District

Distribution

Where the features locate

Intensity

How intensively the features are used

Factors that determine land uses

availability of land, infrastructure, topography

Model of Land Value distribution

f(distribution of land value)= distribution + intensity of land use

Land use is a ……. of land value

factor

Bid Rents

Bid rents = land value (@ prime value intersection) - Access costs

Land situation

The availability of land, infrastructure(access) and topography

Access costs

Distance * the costs associated with distance for a particular function

PVI

Prime value intersection

Features of the Central Business District

Central market place

Major transportation node

administrative center

producer services “command and control”

character of density - building and foot traffic

Traditionally devoid of residential

Disamenities

skid rows, red-light districts, railroad tracks and gulleys, public housing

The walking city attributes

functional integration, retail activity, social integration, no real CBD boundaries

Waldo Tobbler First law of geography

“everything is related to everything else but near things are more related than distant things