Urban Land Use Theories (Leaving Cert Geography): Flashcards

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Urban Land Use Theories
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Creator & year of concentric zone model

Ernest Burgess, 1925

Creator & year of sector model

Homer Hoyt, 1939

Creators & year of multiple nuclei model

Chauncy Harris & Edward Ullman, 1945

Zone of transition

Area around CBD where functions & land uses regularly change

City Burgess based observations on

Chicago

Where are land values highest in Burgess's model?

City centre

Key factor Hoyt considered in sector model

Impact of transport links on land use

Growth pattern in Hoyt's sector model

Sectors/wedges radiating out from CBD

Core principle of multiple nuclei model

Cities grow around multiple business districts (nuclei)

Social stratification definition

People of similar backgrounds living in same city areas

Dublin CBD main shopping areas

Grafton St to O'Connell St & Henry St

Location of Dublin's IFSC

Docklands

3 Dublin nuclei absorbed by city expansion

Swords, Dundrum, Lucan

Dublin stratification: east vs west

East wealthier; west working/middle class

Favelas definition

Makeshift shelters used by city's poor

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