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An investigation to compare the land use in High Wycombe to Burgess's and Hoyt's land use models.
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An investigation to compare the land use in High Wycombe to Burgess's and Hoyt's land use models. Aim: Our aim is to study both Burgess's and Hoyt's land use models. Then we must study the history of the town High Wycombe located in Buckinghamshire. Once these have been done we must try to apply both models to High Wycombe and see if either fit the towns structure. I will begin with the Burgess model. In 1925, E.W. Burgess presented an urban land use model, which divided cities in a set of concentric circles expanding from the downtown to the suburbs. This representation was built from Burgess's observations of a number of American cities, notably Chicago. It must be taken into account while doing this model that his observations were made from a much larger, more densely populated, spacious area, than High Wycombe. So this could affect the way in which it applies to...
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