Maps that Matter

Burgess concentric ring model

Date: 1925

Creator: Ernest W. Burgess (1886 - 1966)

(Source: Park, R., Burgess, E.W. and McKenzie, R.D. (1925) The City.)

• First published in 1925 in Burgess’ chapter in Park et al. The City.

• First and strongly iconic neo-classical spatial model of urban structure to explain distribution of social classes in the city invoking bid rent curves.

• Came to represent views of the Chicago School and strongly influenced other modellers such as Hoyt, Harris and Ulmann and subsequent quantifiers in Urban Social Geography.

(Source: http://teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu/snyderd/APHG/Unit%206/urbannotes.htm)