__________ theory argues that city growth is generated by the pressure from the city center to expand outward. Expansion threatens to encroach on the surrounding areas and does so in concentric waves, or circles, with the center being the most intense, having the highest density and highest occupancy. These concentrations become progressively less intense and of lower density with greater distance from the center.

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This theory is known as concentric zone theory, proposed by Ernest Burgess in 1925.

__________ Theory Argues That City Growth Is Generated by the Pressure