Contemporary Urban Environments Revision

Question 1

Rainfall can be higher in urban areas

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

A world city has a population of 10 million

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Why is having a local currency sustainable?

Accepted Answer

It keeps money within the local economy

Question 4

What would a shortage of housing in LICs create?

Accepted Answer

Slums

Question 5

Between what years did urban policy in the UK focus on competition led policy?

Accepted Answer

1991-1997

Question 6

Why are urban areas more likely to flood?

Accepted Answer

Tarmac is impermeable

Question 7

Which word is used to describe a group of people who have moves to a new country and settled together?

Accepted Answer

Diaspora

Question 8

What are SUDS?

Accepted Answer

Sustainable urban drainage systems

Question 9

What percentage of people in Copenhagen work more than 40 hours a week?

Accepted Answer

2%

Question 10

What is the greatest cause of global waste increase?

Accepted Answer

Population increase

Question 11

Which of these features wouldn't be found in a fortress landscape?

Accepted Answer

Recessed doorways

Question 12

There are 7 measures of deprivation

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Which of the following is not a way to tackle inequalities in cities?

Accepted Answer

Limited public transport

Question 14

Large cities tend to have a greater cultural diversity than rural areas

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

LA is seen as the archetypal postmodern city

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Where are the fastest rates of urbanisation in the world?

Accepted Answer

NEEs

Question 17

What tends to be higher in derelict areas?

Accepted Answer

Crime rates

Question 18

Which of these would lead to urban resurgence being needed?

Accepted Answer

De-industrialisation

Question 19

What is a consequence of water pollution?

Accepted Answer

Damage to marine life

Question 20

Ethnic segregation in cities exists only because of self-segregation

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

Movement of people out of cities towards rural areas is called what?

Accepted Answer

Counter urbanisation

Question 22

During the day, an urban area can be how much warmer than the surrounding area?

Accepted Answer

1-3 degrees

Question 23

A site that has had a previous use and has been redeveloped is known as what?

Accepted Answer

Brownfield site

Question 24

Which of these is an example of waste diversion?

Accepted Answer

Recycling

Question 25

Rural-urban migration is the only cause of urbanisation

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

A micro-climate is sometimes known as a what?

Accepted Answer

Climatic dome

Question 27

Which of these is a feature of a sustainable city?

Accepted Answer

Local suppliers for food

Question 28

Which of the following isn't a method to manage the urban heat island?

Accepted Answer

Densely populated buildings

Question 29

The clean air acts started after the smog event in 1952

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

Urban canyons are formed through what process?

Accepted Answer

Channelling

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