Unit 6 regional city models

Latin American city model

Thriving CBD connected to a spine of high income housing surrounded by concentric rings of decreasing quality (squatter settlements)

Southeast Asian city model

Focused on an old colonial port zone with a mix of modern and traditional business districts and no formal CBD

Sub Saharan African city model

Featured there distinct CBDs (traditional colonial and market.)

CBD (Central Buisness District

the downtown hearth of a city characterized by high land values, maximum accessibility, vertical development,

Squatter settlements

Illegal residential areas lacking legal land tenure often built on urban land by low income immigrants