Core frame model

The Core frame model is a model showing the urban structure of the Central Business District of a town or city. The model was first suggested by Ronald R. Boyce and Edgar M. Horwood in 1959.[1]

The model includes an inner core where land is expensive and used intensively, resulting in vertical development. This area is the focus of the transport system and has a concentrated daytime population. The outer core and frame have lower land values and are less intensively developed.[2] The various land uses are linked to the bid rent theory. The zone of assimilation and zone of discard are together called the zone of transition.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Edgar M. Horwood and Ronald D. Boyce, "The CBD Core-Frame Concept," Chapter 2 in their Studies of the Central Business District and Urban Freeway Development (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1959).
  2. ↑ Goodall, B. (1987) The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography. London: Penguin.

Further reading

  • Waugh, David Geography: An Integrated Approach 1995


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