Describe the structural, economic and social patterns found in Auckland.
             Explain 4 processes responsible for causing some of these patterns.
             The structural, economic and social patterns found in Auckland are the three main elements that Auckland can be divided into. They all relate to each other. The structure of Auckland links to the economic pattern of the city through land cost and the location of the Central Business District. Economic patterns can be related to social as some prices of land can contribute to some groups of ethnicity to group in certain areas. Certain processes helped contribute to these processes such as inertia, primary selection, gentrification and redevelopment.
             The structural patterns found in Auckland forms a sort of "ripple pattern" to be created. (See Diagram 1 for explanation). The CBD is the centre which then goes out to other business centres, housing and suburbs which then leads to the industrial areas.
             The C.B.D (Central Business District) is the centre for national and multi-national firms such as the Stock Exchange building, head offices of the ASB bank, IBM and the New Zealand Herald Newspaper. On the Eastern edge located are Auckland University, Auckland Institute of Technology and the Central public Library. Due to the high cost of land in the CBD there are a number of multi-storied buildings. In the CBD the three main types of business are Banking, financing and Insurance. Business services such as lawyers, engineer and architects along with Real estate, publishing and Machinery Rental are concentrated in the CBD. They also provide 25% of the city's jobs and 11% of business. Another large industry in the CBD is tourism which provides 23% of Jobs. The high cost of the land in the CBD pushes out smaller businesses which form smaller business centres outside of the CBD.
             These smaller centres are located in such areas as Takapuna and Manukau. Whilst other smaller clusters form i
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