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Human Geography · Problem type
Models of a city’s land use
Use this for “A city’s richest neighbourhoods run in a wedge along the lakeshore. Which urban model does that fit?”
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Which model of the city does this fit?
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Rings around one centre, wedges along transport, or several centres.
Assumptions
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Each model is a simplified map of where homes, shops and factories sit in a North American city.
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Concentric zone (Burgess, 1925) and sector (Hoyt, 1939) grow out from one downtown; multiple nuclei (Harris and Ullman, 1945) from several centres.
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Real cities mix all three; pick the model the clue fits best.
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