One would find that the central city’s infrastructures are older and more densely populated than the other realms. The neighboring urban areas is what makes up the realms. For example, in Los Angeles, the central city is Los Angeles even though the Los Angeles metropolitan areas is much bigger than the actually city.
In the model, you can see that there is a central city where the most important or the oldest city use to be. The characteristics of the realms include independentness, transportation infrastructure connecting each realm to each other as well as to the central city, and the concept of distance decay radiating from the center of each realm.
The model is made up of a central city which is where the old city use to be, surrounding realms, which are independent focal points and center of the realm’s surrounding suburbs, and outlying small towns outside of the whole metropolitan area. The urban realm model explain how the function of a central business district has moved to the surrounding realms. Due to this phenomenon, the urban realms model was created. Urban sprawl, the uncontrolled growth of urban areas, is a phenomenon happening all over the US and is resulting in things like urban to rural migration, increase of cars, and the decrease of wildlife and rural areas. The Urban realms is the last of the models created in 1964 to help explain the modern metropolitan areas in the United States. The five models in chronological order are: the concentric zone model by Ernest Burgess, the Sector model by Homer Hoyt, the multiple nuclei model by Harris and Ullman, the galactic model by Harris, and the urban realms model by James E. Five models were created since 1923 and are used in explaining various American cities. In urban geography, models of cities are used to explain the spatial distribution of the different places in a city.
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