Hoyt Sector Model of Urban Ecology
Central Business
District
•Most accessible point
•Most expensive land
•Most profitable
activities
•Causes growth of city
by expansion
CBD
•Government offices
•Business
•Shopping
•Churches
High Income Sector
• Easy
CBD
access to CBD
• Easy access to
highways
• On west side away
from industrial air
pollution
• High elevation
• Close to lake/river
Middle Income Sectors
• Access
to CBD
• Access to highways
CBD
• Retail areas in this
sector
• West of industrial
areas minimal air
pollution
Industrial & Transportation Sectors
• Industry
• Transportation
CBD
• Access to CBD
• Pollution
Low Income Sectors
• Close to Industry
• In pollution zone
• low laying land
CBD
• Poor road access
• Limited retail
available
Lowest Income Sector (slum)
• Next to Industry
• In pollution zone
• low laying land
CBD
• Poor road access
• No retail
available
• The “wrong side
of the tracks”
Hoyt Sector Model of Urban Ecology
Middle
Income
High
Income
Middle
Income
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CBD
Transportation
& Industrial
Low
Income
Slum
Transportation
& Industrial