Toledo, Ohio The city I will be looking at is Toledo, Ohio. Toledo has undergone many changes since World War II. It flourished with industry and developed from there. Of the many city models covered in the book, the model that a Toledo fits into best is the sector model. This essay will go into detail about the physical, economic, social, and political issues and changes that Toledo has faced over the past fifty years. As stated above, I believe Toledo best fits the sectoral city model described in the book. There is a lot of evidence to support this statement. One example is that there (were) a lot of light industrial/manufacturing activities concentrated in the city center. With all the good jobs downtown, there was a need for mass housing around downtown. Over time, these residential areas became lower-class homes, and ethnic sectors arose within these areas. If you look at the sector model in figure 9.17 on page 258, this is the exact structure of Toledo. Just outside the central business district, there is manufacturing activity that stretches up and down the Maumee River. Around these two areas the residential area of ​​the lower classes persists. In Toledo, a large Hispanic population has developed in the lower-class sector to the left of the manufacturing industry, isolated east of the river. The other lower class sectors to the right of the CBD refer to a majority black population, with whites scattered within the sector. This established the so-called "bad side of the city" and upper-class settlements moved outward from the center. There is also a main street (Bancroft), which is a main road in and out of the city center that leads directly through the lower class, through the middle class and into the upper...... middle of paper... ...we are committed to keeping Jeep in Toledo and building another plant in Toledo. Toledo has changed a hundred times in the last fifty years. While Toledo still makes up most of Lucas County and is still the fourth largest city in Ohio, its dominance has collapsed just like that of many Rust Belt cities nationwide. Since almost everything except the city government has left the city center, it is perfectly suited to moving to the outskirts of the city to settle. There has been no push for gentrification in Toledo, since downtown has no jobs to offer and two downtown neighborhoods are simply not suited to gentrification. So Toledo is just another of that dying breed of city where downtown manufacturing has died and upper-class suburban amenities have taken the driving seat in city expansion..