ABSTRACT
As an urban area increases in population, it expands territorially at the margin, and this expansion invariably requires sales of land by previous owners and purchases of land by new owners. Thus a market for suburban land is necessarily created. This market has many peculiarities, and the following pages will deal with some of them. The thesis here is that the form of the market in itself has a considerable effect on the kind of land use and the type of suburb which is developed. The chapter will therefore attempt to measure how far and in what ways the nature of the market determines or affects the kind of suburbs which emerge, and how far and in what ways the market might yield to public efforts to change the outcome.
