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Griffin Ford Model

By: Sydney B, Audrey H, Kate D

History

History

- Created in 1980 by two geographers, Ernest Griffin and Larry Ford

- Created for Latin American Cities

- Unique because it is based around the CBD and from there is a commercial spine which is encompased by elite housing followed by three concentric zones with housing that decrease in quality moving to the outer areas of the city.

- Could be compared to the concentric model because they are both based around CBD but the griffin model differs because it has more detail into their categories

Picture

Picture

CBD - Central Buisness District

- This is the area of the model where buisnesses are centralized

- It consists of high building densities and high land costs

- It also has many retail, office buildings, and cultural activities are located

CBD

Market

Located on the opposite side of the CBD, but is less industrialized. It is an informal economy because it is where food and goods that are transported from outside of the city are sold.

Market

Elite Residential Area

Elite Residential Sector

- where the upper class lives with better services and better electricity

- consists of the best housing, more ammentities, offices, and shops that attraactes wealthy people

- forms on both sides of the spine

Zone of Maturity

- Located around the CBD

- Middle class has better housing and developed infastructre, but still not as good as the upper class housing within the elite residential sector

- Those who live in this area moved there once the wealthy moved into the elite residential areas this can be known as gentrification

Zone of Maturity

Zone of situ accretion

Zone of Situ Accretion

- Known as middle class because it is a transitional zone between the higher class (zone of maturity) and the lower class (perierico)

- Consists of decent quality houses, but has unfinished infastructure and is constantly in construction

- Middle-Class residential is located on the outer ring on both sides of the elite residential sector.

Periterico

- ring highway that connects malls and edge cities which exist on the fringes of larger cities and act as a regional hub for various activities, which allows workers to easily travel

- It encircles the zone of situ accertion and disamenity sectors

Periterico

Peripheral Squatters

Outside of the disamenity sector is home to the poorest of the city with the majority of the residents living there illegally, and lacks infastructure.

Peripheral Squatters

Disamentiy

- Located sticking out from the market and goes through the zone of Situ accertion

- In some parts of the area, it is not connected to normal services because it is where most of the lower economy population live

- Frequently overrun by gangs and drug lords and is unique to Latin American cities

Disamenity

Durham, NC

Durham, North Carolina relates to the Griffin Ford model.

Real world example

This is because it is located mainly around a central business district, including the mall.

Durham has many abandon buildings on the outskirts that have began to become gentrified.

Gentrification is the process of renovating/improving a building or district to conform to a middle class taste.

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