Burgess- Concentric Zone Model:

• Inner city has high poverty, crime

• Suburbs= influence & stability

• Businesses in CBD

• First urban city model

• Based on 1920s Chicago

  

Hoyt Sector Model:

• Cities grow along major transportation routes

  • transportation affects where people live

• High income residents live in large, new land

  

Multiple Nuclei Model

• CBD is less important as cities grow

• Urban residency built around multiple nuclei

• More highways=more commerce away from CBD

• cars and suburban sprawl become more impactful

  

Galactic City Model (Peripheral Model):

• CBD is influential

• Different offices are linked bay a ring road/ railway

• Decentralized

• Edge cities, higher incomes

• Atlanta, Georgia

  

Southeast Asia Model:

• cities focused around old colonial ports

• SE Asian states focus on exports

• Commercial zones for West and Alien (China)

• Jakarta, Indonesia

  

African City model:

• urban areas morphed from colonial and traditional eras

• European centers along coast

• Higher-income closer to CBD

  

Latin American City Model (Griffin-Ford Model):

• In-migration creates disamenity zones that lack services

• Cities around CBD with a commercial & industrial spine surrounded by residential areas