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13983369408Burgess Concentric Zone Model Descriptionfirst published in 1923. The model represents the Anglo-American cities of the US and Canada.0
13983384749Burgess Concentric Zone Model1
13983429426Harris-Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model2
13983437825Christaller's Central Place Theory DescriptionDeveloped in the 1930s, this model explains and predicts patterns of urban places across the map. This model analyzed the hexagonal, hierarchical pattern of cities, villages, towns, and hamlets arranged according to their varying degrees of centrality, determined by the central place functions existing in urban places and the hinterlands they serve. Assumptions: - Flat plane with uniform geography and nature - Uniform population - single mode of transportation - evolution towards the growth of cities - all persons have a similar income - all persons have similar consumption patterns3
13983443331Wallerstein's World Systems Theorysees the world economy as a flexible core, periphery and semi-periphary4
13983447474Mackinder's Heartland TheoryWho rules East Europe commands the heartland and eventually the world5
13983451813Ravenstein's Laws of Migration1. Most migration is over a short distance. 2. Migration occurs in steps. 3. Long-range migrants usually move to urban areas. 4. Each migration produces a movement in the opposite direction (although not necessarily of the same volume). 5. Rural dwellers are more migratory than urban dwellers. 6. Within their own country females are more migratory than males, but males are more migratory over long distances. 7. Most migrants are adults. 8. Large towns grow more by migration than by natural increase. 9. Migration increases with economic development. 2. Migration is mostly due to economic causes.6
13983451814Ratzel's Organic TheoryA country, behaves like an organism-to survive, a state requires nourishment, or territory, to gain political power.7
13983459663Rostow's Stages of DevelopmentTraditional; Pre conditions for take off; take off to self-sustained growth; the drive to maturity; age of mass-consumption.8
13983463247Weber's Lawthe principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant amount)9
13983481889Boseruphuman growth stimulates agricultural intensification (Malthus upside-down)10
13983493598Hotellingdeveloped a Locational Interdependence theory that suggests competitors, in trying to maximize sales, will seek to constrain each other's territory as much as possible which will therefore lead them to locate adjacent to one another in the middle of their collective customer base.11
13985359592Homer Hoyt's Sector Model DescriptionThis theory of urban structure was first proposed in 1939 by a theorist. This applies to the United States and Canada. In the model, the concepts of the industrial corridor and neighborhood are combined for practical purposes. More realistic than the concentric model. Also used to depict ethnic variation.12
13985419780Homer Hoyt's Sector Model13
13985442723Harris-Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model DescriptionThis represents another evolutionary step in the conceptualization of the Anglo-American city. First recognized suburban business districts forming on the periphery.14
13985623563Christaller's Central Place Theory Model15
13983531060BorlaugFather of the Green Revolution16
13983531061Borchert's epochsFour different epochs that cause a large amount of industrial development, they were Sail-Wagon Epoch (1790-1830), Iron Horse Epoch (1830-1870), characterized by impact of steam engine technology, and development of steamboats and regional railroad networks. Steel Rail Epoch (1870-1920), dominated by the development of long haul railroads and a national railroad network. Auto-Air-Amenity Epoch (1920-17

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