The Farmland Price under Urbanization Pressure- a Case Study of I-Lan County

• Main Authors: Wei-Shiang Huang, 黃威翔
• Other Authors: Tzu-Chin Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04631687004970821169

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 不動產與城鄉環境學系 === 96 === Rapid urbanization in the 1980s in Taiwan had led to the rise of farmland price. From the agricultural point of view, the price of farmland shall be primarily determined by productivity-relevant agricultural factors. However, the price of farmland adjacent to urban areas has constantly been observed to be excessively higher than that possibly supported by agricultural productivity. This phenomenon is suspected to be due to the expectation of farmland conversion or urbanization pressure. This thesis sets out to explore the correlation between farmland price and urbanization pressure. I-Lan County is selected as our study area in that a great number of farmland under different degrees of urbanization pressure exist in this area. A detailed study of I-Lan County will help us to gain a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship between farmland price and urbanization. We have found that the gap between market value and use value of farmland comes from the conversion pressure. The value gap diminishes with the distance from the city center as predicted by Alonso-type land value theory. A number of policies regarding land use and land taxation are thus proposed based on our empirical findings.