Sociology and Space, No. 25, 1969.
Original scientific paper
Land Prices and Sources of Income of the Active Population as Indicators of the Influence of Zagreb's Urban Agglomeration on the Surrounding Area
Ivan Jelen
Abstract
In the past, Zagreb exercised only a negligible influence on its surrounding
agricultural area. This influence can best be studied taking land prices as a
synthetic indicator of the relationship between the city and the surrounding agricultural
area. The author compares the land prices which prevailed in adjoining
communes in 1961 with those in force in 1968. In 1961, land prices, surprisingly,
were higher in remote areas with poor links with Zagreb than were those in
areas situated more closely to the city. He finds some explanation for this in the
employment of labour outside farms. Where this kind of employment was greater
or nearer to the city, the interest in agricultural production appeared to be less
and thus also the price of land. Thus the situation showed to be contrary expectations.
However, in recent years land prices have gone up in areas lying closer to the
city and this has reduced the earlier disproportion; the influence of Zagreb as a
major consumer of agricultural produce has begun to have an elfect on land prices.
The city’s influence increases when it is examined with reference to the
population’s sources of income. As regards communication links with the city the
author finds there are three different zones and that in areas which have good
communication links with Zagreb the population is less dependent on agriculture as
a source of income. In the first zone about two thirds of the households, and in
the second only one third of the households, belong to the group of what are called
'mixed incomes'.
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119034
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Publication date:
10.9.1969.
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