Concentric zone model Flashcards
Concentric zone model
First model to explain and predict urban growth
Based on Chicago urban growth
As cities grow and expand, new rings are added and older rings change their function and character.
Central business district
Original core of any economy and model
Like a nucleus
Invasion and succession
Or succession migration
New arrivals move into inner rings
Near cbd
Then people and economic activities are pushed into farther rings
Essentials a series of migration waves one group moves in and establishes itself
Invasion nod succession in European immigrants
As German immigrants come, English immigrants in city leave
,asking a German dominated center and the. English dominated outer
Zone in transition
Aka skid row
Forms outside of cbd
It never becomes developed cuz investors know it will be constantly caught in shifting urban pattern
Cbd
Aka downtown
Land ring earnest the point of maximum accessibility and visibility in the city
Peak land value intersection
Land ring nearest the point of maximum accessibility and visibility in the city
Around the big skyscrapers not among it
Bid rent curve
Farther out ,from cbd, the less xpensive the land
Predicts that land prices and population density declines as distances frm the central business district increases