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 cities of a closed urban system. City size distribution refers to the frequency distribution of settlements in different size categories. The observed distributions for urban
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 land uses intermix. It is the area where the city meets the countryside. It is an area of transition from agricultural and other rural land uses to urban
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 settlements abutting the city limits. On one hand, they have characteristics of the city because of their closeness to it & on the other they
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 points or “nuclei” around which growth take place. This model was given in an article by them “The Nature of Cities.” This is one of the
Burgess model or concentric zone model – urban land use model Ernest Burgess gave a model to define how different social groups are located in a metropolitan area. Burgess model is one of the well known and widely studied model in urban planning. Social groups based on the socio-economic status of households and distance from