What is Sector model?
[[File:Hoyt_model.svg|right|thumb|400px|]] '''Sector model''' is a basic [[model]] in modern [[urban planning]] that was [[wikt:develop|develop]]ed by [[Homer Hoyt]]. He [[Publishing|published]] his work in 1939 after [[Research|studying]] 140 [[United States|American]] [[city|cities]].<ref name=Pitzl224>Gerald R. Pitzl, ''Encyclopedia of Human Geography'' (Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Publishers, 2004), p. 224</ref> His model was a response to the [[concentric zone model]] developed by R. E. Park, [[Ernest W. Burgess|E. W. Burgess]] and R. D. McKenzie.<ref name=Pitzl224/> Hoyt found that cities grow outward in [[Wedge (mechanics)|wedge]]-shaped [[wikt:sector|sector]]s instead of [[concentric]] [[circle]]s.<ref>Charles F. Floyd; Marcus T. Allen, ''Real Estate Principles'' (Chicago, IL: Dearborn Real Estate Education, 2002), p. 184</ref> == Related pages == * [[Grid plan]] * [[Concentric zone model]] * [[Multiple nuclei model]] * [[Linear city model]] == References == {{commons}} {{reflist}} == Other websites == *[http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/landusemodels.html Internet Geography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630001740/http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/landusemodels.html |date=2019-06-30 }} *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/geography/settlement/structure_models_rev2.shtml BBC GCSE Bitesize Revision] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207091122/http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/geography/settlement/structure_models_rev2.shtml |date=2008-12-07 }} {{US-stub}} [[Category:Urban planning]] [[Category:Urban design]]