CITB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter pp. 178-186: Chauncy Harris, Concentric Zone Model, Edward Ullman
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The city reader - the growth of the city: an introduction to a research project: Studied the interrelation of the social growth and the physical expansion of modern cities only to help foster the subfields of urban geography and urban sociology. In 1939, real estate economist homer hoyt proposed a sectoral model for modern capitalist cities backed on wedges of activity extending outward from the city center along transportation corridors. Cbd, as burgess argued: burgess"s introduction, all the manifestations of urban growth (e. g. , skyscrapers, subways, department stores, etc. ) are characteristically american, according to burgess. "social problems" that exist in urban societies today are most prominent in cities (e. g. , divorce, social unrest, delinquency, etc. "hobohemia," the teeming rialto of the homeless migratory man of the middle west. In the zone of deterioration encircling the cbd are always to be found the so-called. Ghetto, little sicily, greek town, chinatown - combining old world heritages and.
