GEO 320 Urban Geography Fall 2007
Department of Geography and Meteorology, Valparaiso University

Internal Structure of Cities

Part I

Morphogenisis

Trade-Off Model

  • Peak Land Value Intersection

Urban Ecology and the Chicago School

  • City as Social Organism
  • Burgess's Concentric Zone Model
  • Invasion and Succession
Hoyt's Corridors and Sectors Model


Harris and Ullman's Multiple Nuclei Model

White's Twenty First-Century City Model

Part II
Structural Approach

  • Harvey Circuits of Capital and uneven development

The LA School and Postmodernism