Analysis of Land Use Changes in City Suburbs. A Case Study on Some Subdistricts of the Bekasi Area of West Java, Indonesia.

Abstract

The agricultural location theory has played an important role in the evolution of the urban land use theory and in the study of urban fringe. Von Thunen in 18261) and Ricardo in 18202) drafted the first agricultural location and land rent theories. Only in the twentieth century have location theories been proposed for industry by Weber' and for services by Christaller4) and Losch'. Classical spatial analyses have been treated conceptually for about a century, and algebraically for several decades. These classical statistics applied to geo-refereed data have failed to capture location information, however, raising questions of estimation sufficiency, bias, efficiency, and consisten-cy6) . Only recently have the analyses of spatial data become a major preoccupation of numerous statisticians.