A city grows outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings, like the growth rings of a tree
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Sector Model
A city develops in a series of sectors. As a city grows, activities expand outward in a wedge, or sector, from the center
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Multiple Nuclei Model
A city is a complex structure that includes a CBD as well as other centers around which activities occur
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Galactic Model
An urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and service nodes or nuclei tied together by a beltway or ring road
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Edge Cities
The nodes of consumer and business services around the beltway
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Informal Settlement
A residential area where housing has been built on land to which the occupants have no legal claim or has not been built to the city’s standards for legal buildings
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100% corner
corner where large dept. stores cluster (rent was highest here)
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