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Evaluating Land-Use Alternatives in Rural-Urban Fringe Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2020

Robert E. Lee  and
Robert L. Christensen
Robert E. Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
Robert L. Christensen
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
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In rapidly urbanizing areas, conflicts exist between agricultural and urban uses of land. There has been both a concentration of people in metropolitan area boundaries and a spreading of those boundaries, a move away from the densely populated urban centers. Urban people and industry have been moving outward into fringe areas in a search for more living space, the amenities offered by a pastoral landscape, and to escape from the congestion, high living costs, and lack of privacy in more concentrated urban areas.

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Agricultural Production and Land Use
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 1 , October 1972 , pp. 110 - 120
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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