Nutshell notes
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Two models purport to explain why poor people tend to live in city centers while affluent people live in surrounding districts. Sociologist E.W. Burgess suggested that US cities developed this way because each new immigrant group tended to obtain dwellings in urban centers where housing was older and therefore cheaper. W. Alonso hypothesizes that market forces cause the poor to seek inner-city homes where they will not have to commute and the affluent to go to the suburbs where land is abundant. Neither of these theories is wholly applicable to Britain's cities.
Publication Name: Geographical Magazine
Subject: Petroleum, energy and mining industries
ISSN: 0016-741X
Year: 1992
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The demographic transition model
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The demographic transition model (DTM) divides the recent past into four stages representing levels of industrial development, and charts population increase as a function of rates births and deaths. The model is a broad generalization, since many countries in both developed and developing world do not exhibit the same pattern. The questions that arise when trying to explain differences from country to country demonstrate the model's usefulness.
Publication Name: Geographical Magazine
Subject: Petroleum, energy and mining industries
ISSN: 0016-741X
Year: 1992
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Barnaby Lenon looks at Weber's industrial location theory (Alfred Weber)
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Alfred Weber developed a theory for siting industrial plants in relation to their market and sources of raw materials in 1909. Weber's theory was based on the need to minimize transport costs because the transportation network was still undeveloped then. It was useful for the heavy industries that existed at that time, but fails to account for profit maximization, government intervention or change in markets or industries.
Publication Name: Geographical Magazine
Subject: Petroleum, energy and mining industries
ISSN: 0016-741X
Year: 1992
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