Chapter 13- Urban Patterns

Concentric Zone Model

A city grows outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings, like the growth rings of a tree

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

Multiple Nuclei Model

A city is a complex structure that includes a CBD as well as other centers around which activities occur

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

Edge Cities

The nodes of consumer and business services around the beltway

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

100% corner

corner where large dept. stores cluster (rent was highest here)

Chicago

first skyscrapers