Sector model

The sector model of Homer Hoyt (1895-1984), a pupil of the sociologist Ernest Burgess, was born in 1939 and rejected the obsolete concentric ring model as an explanatory approach to urban development from. His model is based on the analysis of the rent structure in 30 American cities, and shall in mainly due to the location of high status residential areas. The results of his investigation were that the location of these residential areas has shifted to the periphery 1900-1936. Their extent is based on Hoyt along the roads that allow quick transport to the surrounding area and / or the residential areas of highest population status. Unlike Burgess Hoyt argues that urban development is mainly dependent on the relocation of the residential locations of the populations socially better-off. In addition, Hoyt believes that leaving a residential area causes by a group of people to the influx of the next lower population group in this area. Accordingly, cities are divided into homogeneous sectors with similar to the same social groups.

However, Hoyt's model is characterized culturally specific and represents only the internal structure of the U.S. city in the thirties dar. As the last of the three classical urban development models provide CD Harris and E.L. Ullman in 1945, her multi- cores model that attempts to solve the fundamental flaws of its two predecessors.