Also known as the Concentric Zone Model; developed by sociologist Ernest Burgess in 1925. It describes urban environments as a series of concentric circles expanding from downtown to suburbs.
Consider your favorite multi-layered cake. The Burgess Model is like this cake, with the downtown or CBD as the innermost layer, surrounded by layers of different types of neighborhoods and suburbs.
Urban Sprawl: The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land.
Gentrification: The process of renovating deteriorated urban neighborhoods through the influx of more affluent residents.
Sector Model: A model or urban land use that suggests cities develop in sectors or wedges instead of rings.
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