... now there are shops, offices, and expensive flats. Lower class housing: is the closest housing zone to the C.B.D. It is good for being close to work (the factory zone), but the houses are old. There are also small units. Upper class housing: consists of newer, larger housing with much better quality. The houses in this zone are more expensive. Commuter zone: is on the outskirts. This consists of large houses with gardens, and parks (open spaces). This is the most expensive zone for housing, and is also has the highest quality of housing. Burgess produced a model, which differentiated between different land use zones based on distance from the C.B.D. He said that there is a transition zone surrounding it, where most of the industry takes place, and then successive zones of progressively higher-class residential properties, until we reach the outskirts of the city. Burgess also explains that land prices decrease ...

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