Land-use models have been put forward on the basis of the idea
that towns and cities do not grow in a haphazard fashion, rather
they tend to develop distinctive patterns of land-use as they
grow and develop. Land-use models are simplified diagrams which
are used to represent the pattern of land-use functions within a
town or city. It should however be remembered that these are
simplifications of reality and it is unlikely that any model
will fit every town and city perfectly. Two of the land-use
models we often refer to are the Burgess Concentric Ring Model
and the Hoyt sector model The Burgess Model This model was based
on a study of land-use in Chicago. Burgess suggests that cities
grow outwards from the CBD in a series of concentric rings of
land-use. The oldest part of the city is at the centre and the
newest part on the outer edge. The quality and size of housing
increases with distance from the CBD, although the height of
buildings tends to be greatest close to the Central Area, where
land-values are hi