In the last hundred years, one of the most enduring models of urban development has been the iconic "concentric zones" map. Outlined by Chicago School sociologist Ernest Burgess, it was initially ...

What defines Chicago? Physically, I mean. It's a vast, flat expanse of land, and if you were designing it from scratch, SimCity style, it could look like anything: an ice cream cone, a Jackson Pollock ...

Long ago, in a small, dimly lit college classroom, I listened to an urban studies professor explain the concept of concentric zones. A heavy smell of cigarettes rose every time he brushed by in his ...