ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Land take by the expansion of the urban areas and related infrastructure is one of serious development problems all around the world. There are major pressures for land use change at the local level with the ascendancy of market economics in the public and private sectors. The role of the regulations at national, regional as well as local levels through the planning system has to be seen in the light of assuring sustainable spatial development and controlling urbanization. For this purpose, land market data and land market analyses are of big importance for decision makers not only to assure transparency and development of land market but also as the basis for monitoring urbanization trends and thwarting in land development speculations, consequently. This paper explores rural land market as an indicator of urban pressure on land use change, illustrated on the case of Slovenian rural land market.
