ECON 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Concentric Zone Model, Ernest Burgess

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 1B03
• Professor: Hannah Holmes

Document Summary

Land use types: categories of urban activities ex industrial, commercial, residential, institutional, open space/recreation. Central business district (cbd): central nucleus of commercial land uses in city, point of highest accessibility. Zone in transition: area mixed commercial, residential, industrial land uses surrounding cbd. City viewed as series of concentric zones of distinctive neighbourhoods/land uses formed by successive waves of immigrants arriving in the city. Spatial pattern of social groups resulted from invasion & succession" ex groups occupying urban neighbourhoods change over time as members of one immigrant group replace members of another immigrants group in a neighbourhood. Ongoing process and given neighbourhood will be occupied by a series of diff imm group over time. Process begins w/ arrival off an imm group in inner city. This location features lowest cost housing and closest proximity to employment. Inner city viewed as reception area" (point of arrival) Over time, neighbourhood becomes populated by one dominant ethnic group.