This theory states that the concentric circles are based on the amount that people will pay for the land. The model is more detailed than the traditional down-mid-uptown divide by which downtown is the CBD, uptown the affluent residential outer ring, and midtown in between.īurgess's work helped generate the bid rent curve. Commuter zone, high-class homes on outskirts of outer suburbs - homeowner can afford to commute to central business district.Better quality middle-class homes (outer suburbs) or zone of better housing,.Working class residential homes (inner suburbs), in later decades called inner city or zone of independent working men's home,.The transition zone of mixed residential and commercial uses or the zone of transition,.The center with the central business district,.It influenced the later development of Homer Hoyt's sector model (1939) and Harris and Ullman's multiple nuclei model (1945). It is effectively an urban version of Von Thünen's regional land use model developed a century earlier. This concentric ring model depicts urban land usage in concentric rings: the Central Business District (or CBD) was in the middle of the model, and the city is expanded in rings with different land uses. Based on human ecology theory done by Burgess and applied on Chicago, it was the first to give the explanation of distribution of social groups within urban areas.