AP Human Geography / Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes
6.5 The Internal Structure of Cities
Notes
Models:
- Concentric zone (Burgess): rings around the CBD.
- Sector (Hoyt): wedges along transport lines.
- Multiple nuclei (Harris and Ullman): several centers.
- Galactic/peripheral model, and regional models for Latin American, African and Southeast Asian cities.
Practice
Rings of land use around a central business district:
Burgess.
High-income housing extending along a highway in a wedge:
Hoyt.
The Latin American city model includes:
Griffin-Ford model.
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