Hoyt model/Sector model of Urban Land Use (1939) by Homer Hoyt Urban areas have always been area of research and caught the attention of scholars and academicians. Sector model which is…Read More
The concept of Rank-Size Rule or Rank-Size Distribution The Rank-Size Rule was revealed in both developed and underdeveloped countries when the cumulative frequency of cities with a population of greater than…Read More
Concept of Primate City & Primacy The concept of primate city and city primacy was developed to focus attention on the relationship in size between the largest city and other…Read More
What is the rural urban fringe? Rural Urban fringe is an important concept in settlement geography. The rural urban fringe is the boundary zone outside the urban area proper where rural and urban…Read More
Some background about rural-urban continuum The term rural-urban continuum came into existence because of the fact that a marked difference between the urban & rural character is not seen in the…Read More
Multiple Nuclei Model Harris and Edward Ullman of 1945 Multiple nuclei model of 1945 by C.D. Harris and Edward L. Ullman is based on the argument that the cities have multiple growth…Read More
Burgess model or concentric zone model – urban land use model Ernest Burgess gave a model to define how different social groups are located in an urban area. Social groups…Read More
Introduction to Christaller’s Central Place Theory (CPT) – a location theory Central place theory was given by Walter Christaller in 1933, CPT in urban geography is one of the most appreciated theory…Read More