Theory of agricultural zones
Thünen model: 1: (white) - horticultural and dairy production zone; 2: (green) - forest supplying fuel (wood); 3: (yellow) - area of intensively cultivated arable land; 4: (red) - large area, extensive rural farms; Remainder (dark green) - the area defines a zone in which no agricultural production is profitable
The theory of agricultural zones - a model showing the distribution of different types of agricultural production around one centrally organized market, ie the city. The author of this theory is Johann Heinrich von Thünen, a 19th-century German economist. This was one of the first theories of spatial analysis.
Thünen has made several assumptions:
Thünen's theory was the basis for Weber and Lösch's theories.
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