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Ernest Burgess

Ernest Burgess. The Concentric Model. Personal Stuff . Born May 16, 1886 and died December 27, 1966 when he was 80 years old. Born in Tilbury , Ontario Canada, and attended Kingfisher College in Oklahoma where he received his BA in 1908.

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Ernest Burgess

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  1. Ernest Burgess The Concentric Model

  2. Personal Stuff • Born May 16, 1886 and died December 27, 1966 when he was 80 years old. • Born in Tilbury, Ontario Canada, and attended Kingfisher College in Oklahoma where he received his BA in 1908. • In 1909 went to the University of Chicago and entered the department of sociology. • Obtained his Ph.D. in 1913 in the field of Urban Sociology. • Academics influenced by Robert E. Park and George Herbert Mead.

  3. Model • His model was the concentric model or the Burgess model. • Explained how cities grew and why certain people lived in certain areas. • The rings are based upon how much a person will pay for the land. • The closer to the center that one gets the more money a business can make.

  4. Model cont. • The areas closer to the center of the map suffered from more social and physical decay than the out side of the city. • Cost of living went up as one moved farther from the city.

  5. Model failures • The model could not explain how parts of the city could not grow because of land features. • Their could be wealthy sections that were not on the perimeter of the city. • People besides the wealthy could live far from the city but live at low housing costs. • Viewed as too simple because it neglected social and cultural dimensions of urban life.

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