The framework of the idealized city is a composite of sectors and rings. The heart of the city is the CBD dominated by reliance on public transportation and nearby concentrations of affluent, elite residents that guarantees a thriving central city. The CBD increasing reflects skyscraper offices and condominium towers.A commercial—industrial spine extends the CBD in one direction with offices, shops, high-quality housing, restaurants, theaters, parks, golf courses, etc. that eventually give way to wealthy suburbs and elite residential sector.

Three zones reflect home of majority of residents—(1) the zone of maturity, attractive to middle classes with filtered-down colonial housing and improved self-built dwellings, (2) the zone of in situ accretion, modest housing interspersed with deterioration, and (3) zone of peripheral squatter settlements, housing for the impoverished. The final structural element is the disamenity sector with slums, open sewers, no sanitation, and people living in cardboard boxes.