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In this project I will investigate the hypothesis that the quality of housing and residential locations improve the further away you travel from the centre of a city/ a city's CBD (Central Business District).
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A Project to Expose the Relationship between the Quality of an area, and its Distance from C.B.D. In this project I will investigate the hypothesis that the quality of housing and residential locations improve the further away you travel from the centre of a city/ a city's CBD (Central Business District). Urban models can be used to illustrate my theory, examples of which I will demonstrate: Models of Urbanisation are "theoretical frameworks" that may not exist but help explain land uses and urbanisation in real life. They propose that towns don't grow randomly but frequent patterns recur in cities around the world. Earnest Burgess originated this model in the 1920s. He primarily found that key transport routes came from the centre of the city, making the C.B.D. the most accessible part of the city. Chicago had grown in a concentric pattern, the oldest buildings are found in...
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