ABSTRACT

This article reviews Geography’s long intellectual engagement with the theory of von Thünen. It starts with the quantitative revolution, considering the original model in simple form and describing its extensions. Next comes an account of the critique precipitated by the cultural turn, which emphasized the model’s restrictive assumptions, formal abstractions, and inability to explain contemporary land uses. Although von Thünen disappeared from economic geography, his formulation of location rent remains fundamental to land system science and the Alonso model of urban form, both of which are then addressed. The article concludes by suggesting Tobler’s first law of geography be amended by reference to von Thünen’s concept of accessibility.

摘要

本文回顾了地理学对冯·图能理论的长期学术研究。它从定量革命开始，以简单的形式考虑原始模型并描述其扩展。接下来是对文化转向引发的批评的描述，强调模型的限制性假设、形式抽象和无法解释当代土地利用。尽管 von Thünen 从经济地理学中消失了，但他对地租的表述仍然是土地系统科学和城市形态的 Alonso 模型的基础，这两者都将得到解决。文章最后建议参考 von Thünen 的可达性概念来修正 Tobler 的第一地理定律。