An empirical model of urban fringe land use

growing interest in urban fringe land markets. Empirical studies have concentrated on explaining land values in urban fringe areas (Adams et al. 1968; Chicoine 1981; Clonts 1970; Dunford, Marti, and Mittelhammer 1985; Hushak 1975; Hushak and Sadr 1979; Shonkwiler and Reynolds 1986; Vaillancourt and Monty 1985). These studies take land use as given and attempt to determine how various characteristics of a