Human Ecology
Definition
Robert Park's framework for studying how populations and land uses compete for urban space, borrowing the vocabulary of invasion, competition and succession from plant and animal ecology.
Related terms
- Awareness Space
- The set of locations a person knows well through routine movement between home, work and leisure nodes, which crime pattern theory treats...
- Concentric Zone Model
- Ernest Burgess's 1925 model of city growth as five rings expanding outward from a central business district, each ring defined by land...
- Crime Pattern Theory
- Paul and Patricia Brantingham's model of offending as a product of where an offender's everyday nodes, paths and edges intersect with a...
- Invasion-Succession-Dominance
- The three-stage process by which a new land use or population group enters a zone (invasion), gradually displaces the previous occupants (succession)...
- Zone in Transition
- The second ring in Burgess's model, sitting just outside the business core, marked by cheap rooming houses, factories encroaching on residential blocks...
- Nodes, Paths and Edges
- Crime pattern theory's core vocabulary: fixed points of daily life, the routes travelled between them, and the boundaries between land uses or...
- Park and Burgess
- The University of Chicago sociologists who set out the concentric zone model in their 1925 book The City.