... 1. Central business district (C.B.D.) 2. Zone of transition (Industry) 3. Zone of independent workers' homes 4. Zone of better residences 5. Zone of commuters. -These rings form a "concentric pattern". Shortly after Earnest Burgess did the concentric zone form of the city, Homer Hoyt recreated the concentric model altering it after he found patterns in many American cities e.g. that it was common for low-income households to be found in close proximity to railways, and commercial buildings to be found along main roads. In 1939, Hoyt modified the concentric zone model to account for major transportation routes. This theory is linked to mine as it consists of sectors and is not just randomly placed, unsystematic districts. Ho These included railways, ports, and motorways that came from the city centre. Hoyt theorized that cities would tend to grow in wedge-shaped patterns, or sectors, ...

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