How well do the models of Burgess and Hoyt describe the urban structure of Harlow New Town: A GIS investigation

It has been widely suggested in geographical textbooks that urban models can be used to describe the generalised shapes and patterns that towns and cities will develop. For example, if many urban models suggest that a town’s Central Business District (CBD) will be found in the settlement's geographical centre, what sort of weight should we give to such statements?

This resource uses ArcMap from ESRI.

Documents to download include:

• introduction to urban models
• GIS instructions (this document is based around you having loaded a data file onto your school network- please email education@rgs.org to request a copy of this data file)
• information for teachers
• Harlow data summary
• tally sheet

This resource was written by Peter O'Connor (Bishop Stortford College)