CITB02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Demographic Economics, Rathen, Urban Geography
The growth of the city
• Burgees seminal analysis of the interrelation fo the social growth and the physical
expansion of modern cities helped foster the subfield of urban geography as well as
urban sociology
• Burgees focused on patterns, rathen than relationships among cities
• Expansion of the city, burgees a process of distribution takes place, which sifts and sorts
and relocates individuals and groups by residence and occupation
o Dynamic process- process was one of burgess favourite workds that gives form
and characters to the city
• Chicago was a dynamic rapidly growing city of recent immigrants
• Chiago’s ealth as built on its location as the receiving center for natural resources
from the developing amercian frontier
• Cetral to urgess’s aalysis of urban growth was his famoud model based on
concentric circles that divided the city into five zones
• The concentric model looks like a static map of Chicago economic demography but the
model was also a theoretical diagram of a dynamic process illustrating how urban social
and economic structure changes over time
• Burgess called the process of neighbourhood change sucession
• Convinced there was an underlying logicto the social and economic structure of cities
tht could be understood scientifically
• Saw the city itself as the driving force behind the region of which it was a part
Expansion of physical growth
• In Europe and America the tendency of the great city to expand and has been
reogized i the ter “the etropolita area of the it hih far oerruns its political
limits
• Metropolitian are may be taken to include urban terriroty that is physical contiguous
but it is coming to be defined by that facility of transportation that enables a business
man to live in suburb of Chicago and to work in the loop
Expansion as a process
• The typical processes of expansion of the city can be best illustreated by a series of
concentric circles, which may be numbered to designate both the successive zones of
urban extension and the types of areas differentiated in the process of expansion
• Figure 1 represents an indeal construction of the tendencies of any town or city to
epad radiall fro its etral usiess distriat o the ap “the loop
• 1. Encircling the downtown area there is normally an area in transition, which is being
invaded by business and light manufacture
• 11. A third area (111) is inhabited by the wrkds in industris who have escaped from the
area of deterioration (11) but who desire to live within easy access of their work
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