Chapter 9/10 Urban Development Exam Review

The city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs is the

A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities is achieved through

Compared to the United Kingdom, the amount ofsprawl in the United Statesis

New York’s Times Square is an example of giant media reshaping cities into                     

In 2003, Malaria endemicity was very high in_____________.

20,000 nongovernmental organizations(NGOs) in Bangladesh constitute what can be called    

British cities are surrounded by open space known as

In the Latin Am city, where are the homesof the most impoverished and unskilled residents?

Argentina’s severe economic crisis in 2001 wastriggered by economic decisions made       

In Tropical Africa, most countries remain under    ?    percent urbanized

A large component of survival in countries withlow per capita GNP is        

In Latin America,which of the following does not accurately describe the typicalCBD

A classic example of a city's favorable situationis:

Which is both the leasturbanized and the most rapidly urbanizing realm of the world?

In the USA, which of the following definitionsof a city covers the largest land area?

 Humancommunities did not start to grow into largerplaces until about __ years ago

Which of the following countries is least urbanized?

In China, there is a city named _ , which is the world'sfastest-growing urban center          ?

Ethnic neighborhoods in European cities reflect migrantsfrom                     

Young girls trafficked from the periphery towealthier regions most often work as             

What country is this?

Which Asian nation listed below has a per capitaGNP above the world average?

U.S.central cities face fiscal problems because

In the Latin American city, where are the homesof the most impoverished & unskilled residents?

Which of the following has the highest percapita GNP?

Chicagois a good location in which to develop urban models because it is located

In the world of the early 2000s, there are over __ cities with a population over 1 million.

What country is this?

The cities in the hearth of the IndustrialRevolution in Europe went through a phase of:

_____ is the only country in the westernhemisphere with a dependency ration over 85

What country is this?

By determining the economic reach of an urbancenter it is then possible to identify:

The process of legally adding land area to a city in the United Statesis

Port Gentile, Gabon was built by                   

The multiple nuclei explains why differentneighborhoods of a city attract people of different 

The two landlocked countries in South America are:

What country is this?

According to Louis Wirth, urban areas are more likely thanrural areas to have

Of the ten largest urban areas in the world, how many arein More Developed Countries today?

The process whereby an increasing percentage of people livein an urban area is known as

Paris, France is located on what river?

The city that has long been the dominant city ofthe North American interior is

A process of converting a neighborhood from low-income tomiddle-classis

According to the multiple nuclei model, an airport islikely to attract nearby

Rostow’s model, developed in the early 1960s,was based upon the experience of 

The purpose of busing in many U.S. suburbs is to

Berlin is located in _________.

A hinterland reveals the ___ of each settlement.

China has great cities, yet barely    ?    percent of Chinese citizens live in urbanplaces

The growth of ethnic neighborhoods in _________ is less thanin other European countries.

Est. of government quotas on imports(e.g. cotton shirts or steel) to the U.S. has led to

What three countries constitute the South American“cone”?

According to the concentric zone model, a city develops ina series of

Ethnic neighborhoods in European cities reflectmigrants from                     

A recent change in the density gradient has been

A structural element of many Latin Americancities, the disamenity sector, is illustrated by the

Which cities is an example of one whose situation changed as a result of WW II &politics?

Which of the following is notassociated with core production processes?

The only city-state in the world that is 100 percenturban is:

Each year, the population of Mexico City grows by about    ?    inhabitants.

The key innovation in the Auto-Air-Amenity Epochstage (Industrial Rev) of John Borchert's model

In recent years, urban residents are more likely to shop in

What country is this?

Dependency ratio measures:               

A process by which real estate agents convincewhite owners to sell their houses is

In Southeast Asian cities the aliencommercial zone is dominated by                       

__ give loans to poor people, preferably women,to encourage development of small businesses.

Desertification in Africa is a particularproblem as ____ of the continent is arid or semiarid

Microcredit programs have been successful inmany places with the exception of_____

__ have low levels of human developmentaccording to the Human Development Index (2005).

In the urban hierarchy of things, a town may haveoutskirts while a city will have:

Economic development in some African states(e.g. Malawi and Zimbabwe) is hampered by         

Ramshackle houses on the periphery of cities in lessdeveloped countries are known as

Higher income people tend to live near the center of thecity in all of these EXCEPT

By 2050, what percentage of the world’spopulation may live in urban places?

Most African central cities actually have howmany CBDs?

During theIndustrial Rev, which of the following played a major role in thefortunes of cities?

In US cities, the underclass is

The world’s largest urban area at the start of thetwenty-first century was:

Which is not among the five stagesof Rostow’s development model?

Megalopolis refers to

Higher social heterogeneity in urban settlementsmeans that 

A town is defined as a place where a certainassemblage of goods & services is available with a:

In peripheral countries it is not unusual forhotels in tourist areas to be owned by    

Core area agriculture is characterized by                                

The important element of urbanization is an increase in the

The wide boulevards built in cities in LDC's were most likely built during what era?

Public Housing is

Process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owneroccupancy to abandonment, is

The layout of a city, the physical form andstructure, is referred to as                    

Compared to the United States, poor families inEuropean cities are more likely to be 

Segregation in the United States was reinforcedby the financial practice known as            

On an average day the air of Bangkok, Thailandis even more polluted than

The focal point of the Southeast Asian city isthe                  

Modern ideas of development are related to 

Gated communities have __________ as their chiefobjective.

Compared to whites, AfricanAmericans in U.S.cities are more likely to be

The most obvious of all the characteristics ofthe growing, peripheral-world megacities lies in:

The principal structuralist alternative toRostow’s model of economic development is known as  

The very early developing agricultural societieswere                        

Subsistence forms of agriculture in peripheralareas produce little in the way of      

In the early 2000s, the world’s urban population isapproaching more than    ?    percent.

The 1st stage of Borchert's model of transportation technology

The underclass is characterized in part by high rates of

Which does not make up a portion of Colombia’s GNP?

The word “development” implies