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Discuss the major characteristics of ‘CBD’.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Population and Settlement Geography

The Central Business District (CBD) is the commercial nucleus of a city — the zone of maximum accessibility, peak land value and densest non-residential use. Ernest W. Burgess (1925) placed it at the centre of his concentric zones.

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