Inside Cities: Shape and Structure

The morphology of cities

Concentric Zone Model

• Assumptions about accessibility
• Bid-rent curves
• Resulting patterns
• CBD
• Zone of Transition and the rent-gap
• Zone of working people's homes
• Zone of better housing
• Commuter's zone
• Setting the model in motion
• assumptions about invasion and succession and filtering

Other models

• Corridors and Sectors
• Multiple Nuclei
• City Structure in Less Developed Countries