Hailed by scholars as arguably “the most famous single visual document” of the modern city, the concentric zones map was created by sociologist Ernest Burgess and made popular in the "Chicago School's" landmark 1925 book The City. Burgess gathered his data from the local geography of Chicago but the concentric zones imagery here was used for understanding cities across the country all trying to make sense of new migrants, new industries, and new ways of life. The Chicago School’s concentric zones model presented social inequalities as a natural part of urban growth patterns, to explain that there were predictable, unalterable, and hence scientific laws governing city life. This zonal design gave visual form to an emerging set of standards for the management of the modern city, which strengthened sociology’s claim to be the “science of society” and helped justify residential segregation in the process.
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Journal of economic literature
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Envision a town or city. Are the businesses clumped together or are there houses nestled in between? Are commercial buildings along a river’s edge? Are wealthy neighborhoods separated from poorer communities? Social scientists theorize why building are placed where they are and why. This paper will define the concentric zone theory and how it can be useful in developing policies with the proper statistical data. This paper will also explain what type of statistical data is beneficial and how the data relates to the concentric zone theory.
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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Chicagoisms is a collection of essays on the various roles that Chicago has played as a catalyst for the exchange of urban and architectural ideas. In a series of original essays, a diverse roster of distinguished and emerging historians, theorists, curators, and architects explores the different ways that Chicago has influenced the evolution of the architectural discourse in the US and around the world. The book involves 28 authors in a collective interrogation of Chicago as a springboard for architectural and urban speculation. The aim is to instigate a new way of thinking about the city’s influence on the global architectural discourse. Contributions include: a preface by Stanley Tigerman; essays by Penelope Dean, John Harwood, David Haney, Mark Linder, Igor Marjanović, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, and Albert Pope; project commentaries by William Baker, Barry Bergdoll, Aaron Betsky, Robert Bruegmann, Pedro Gadanho, Ellen Grimes, Sandy Isenstadt, Sam Jacob, Sylvia Lavin, Mark Lee, Andres Lepik, David Lewis, Bart Lootsma, Winy Maas, John McMorrough, Brett Steele, Kazys Varnelis, Sarah Whiting, and Mirko Zardini; as well as my essay, “No Failure Too Great,” a commentary on the circle interchange, entitled “Automatic Urbanism,” and the introduction “Chicago as Idea” (co-authored with Jonathan Mekinda). Published by Scheidegger & Spiess / Park Books, the volume was first presented at the Frankfurt and the Leipzig Book Fair in 2013.
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The American Historical Review
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2012 ACSA International Proceedings
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