Bid-Rent Theory
What is the Central Business District?
This part of the city has the highest land prices because it is the most accessible location for businesses.
This model uses rings to describe how cities develop outward from the center
Who developed the sector model?
Hoyt
When was this model developed?
1945
What model includes a “spine” that runs from the CBD through wealthy housing to a mall.
Latin City Model
What is Bid-Rent Theory?
According to this theory, land value changes based on distance from the city center.
What city was used as the basis for this model?
Chicago
How does this model differ from the Concentric Zone Model?
organizing cities into wedge-shaped sections
Who developed the Multiple Nuclei Model?
Harris and Ullman
What are Informal settlements on the edges of cities in Latin America called?
Squater settlements, Favelas
Where are retail stores and businesses located?
These types of land uses are usually closest to the CBD because they generate the most profit and need customer access.
What is the Zone of Transition?
his zone contains factories, industry, and low-income housing close to the CBD.
What type of housing usually develops near industrial areas and transportation routes.
low-income housing
Explain the Mulitple Nuclei Model
Suggests cities develop around several centers of activity instead of just one.
What city model contains three different CBDs reflecting colonial history?
The African City Model
Where are manufacturing or warehouses located?
This type of land use often needs large amounts of space and access to transportation routes.
What is located in the outer residential zones (Rings 4 and 5)?
These rings contain larger homes and lower population density because land is cheaper farther away.
What housing areas tend to locate farther from industry to avoid pollution and traffic.
middle- and high-income housing areas
What is the area the where other businesses develop?
What are secondary business districts?
What is the Zone of In Situ Accretion?
This zone contains mixed-quality housing between elite areas and squatter settlements.
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Provide an example of the relationship between distance from the CBD and cost of land.
What decade was this model originally developed?
1920s
In the Hoyt model, this factor explains why urban land uses spread in sectors rather than rings.
transportation infrastructure
Explain the Galactic City Model and its relationship to transportation
This model explains modern cities that spread outward due to suburbanization and automobile use.
Name the three different commercial zones in the Southeast Asian City Model
port zone, Western commercial zone, and alien commercial zone