By Philip Kivell
Within the swiftly altering sphere of city improvement, land is proven to supply the elemental morphological constitution of the town, but in addition the resource of financial and social energy and the major to making plans via examples from world wide
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In many cases the purpose of survey, and the definitions and classifications used vary from one local authority to another and there is no overall consistency of either input or output. In order to understand what is available, and some of the constraints, it is useful to consider a few preliminary matters. Purpose of survey Research workers using existing land use data encounter the problem that the nature of the data is heavily influenced by the purpose for which it was originally collected and this inevitably limits its more general utility.
In a number of British and American cities these processes have emphasised Burgess’s zone in transition. An inner city area has resulted in which the enduring problem of derelict and vacant land is evidence that demand and land prices have fallen, in some cases temporarily, to zero. 9, with a major dip representing these depressed inner city values followed by a marked rise towards the suburbs. The severity of the fall in value at the edge of the city will depend upon the extent to which the local planning regime permits or prevents urban extension into the surrounding countryside.
These three models have become so well established in the literature on urban structure that they are normally referred to as ‘the classical models’. They are all, quite clearly, North American in origin but an attempt to refine them for 21 LAND AN D THE CITY the British context has been made by Mann (1965). 3—draws most heavily upon the concentric zone and sector models, but it makes passing reference to separate and more specialised areas. Importantly, it also makes allowance for public sector intervention in the form of local authority housing.