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What is the Burgess concentric ring model of urban land-use? The burgess concentric ring model was created by Earnest Burgess to show how land use patterns in typical British and foreign cities. The different types of land-use were shown by using a set of concentric rings, each was devoted to a different land use. His theory was that the C.B.D had the main routes of transport coming to it and it was the most accessible place in a town. He noticed that the many well off people lived further away from the C.B.D because they could afford the greater transport costs. The poorer and less well off people lived closer to the C.B.D so they could travel to and from work without creating high travel expenses. He created five rings in his model (one of which is not a ring but a core which the other four rings centre around),...

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