In the United States, which one of the following would have the largest population? The City of Omaha alone |
The Omaha Metropolitan Area |
"The movement of products, money, information, and human talent around the world in ever larger quantities, at every lower costs, and in ever less time." What is it? globalization |
globalization |
Which one of the following is an example of a non-basic economic activity? strip mall in Kalamazoo, Michigan |
strip mall in Kalamazoo, Michigan |
Continents which do not have any megacities at the present time include: Antarctica |
Antarctica and Australia |
"Loci of national sovereignty with landscapes that are charged with the symbols of solidarity (real or imagined) and museums that are the attics of the nation." To what category of cities does this description apply? capital cities |
capital cities |
Large cities are fewer in number and farther apart than medium-sized cities; medium-sized cites are fewer in number and farther apart than small cities. What theory accounts for the regularities of size and spacing of cities as market centers? concentric zone theory |
central place theory |
Which one of the following would be categorized as an urban environmental risk at the local scale with a short-term impact? decreasing water quantity |
increasing litter |
A new town is: comprehensively planned to be as self-contained as possible |
comprehensively planned to be as self-contained as possible |
Regardless of how large a settlement is, it does not become truly urban until: a leadership class evolves |
its workforce is divorced from the soil |
How does the contemporary world’s urban population growth rate compare with the overall population growth rate? In some years the world’s urban population increases more rapidly than the world’s population as a whole, and in other years it increases more slowly. |
The world’s urban population is growing more rapidly than the world’s population as a whole. |
Montreal has lost the headquarters of many of Canada’s 500 largest companies to what city? Ottawa |
Toronto |
Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland rose to prominence during what era of urban history? The era of colonial mercantilism |
The era of industrial capitalism |
The city of Los Angeles is so large that it has several business districts, including Hollywood and Beverly Hills. This is reminiscent of the: sector model |
multiple nuclei model |
Which one of the following monikers would not fit Los Angeles? Gang Capital of America |
City on the Bay |
With respect to language, the Ottawa city region is: predominantly English-speaking |
WRONG: predominantly English-speaking with small French-speaking minorities |
If you do not view Hurricane Katrina’s impact on New Orleans as a "natural disaster," which one of the following sources of damage would you emphasize? sustained winds of over 100 mph |
breaches in the poorly-designed levees |
The militarization of city police forces contradicts the concept of: community policing |
community policing |
The Stonewall Riots in 1969 are regarded as the beginning of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the United States. In what city did they take place? Boston |
New York City |
Self-contained urban villages and business improvement districts have been successful in U.S. cities, but they have also been criticized for all of the following except: displacing lower-income and working class families. |
being designed around principles that encourage segregated land uses. |
What category of land use accounts for an enormous one fifth of urban land in the United States? residential |
roads and highways |
The industrial free zone along the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti operates on the same principles as: centro historicos. |
maquiladoras. |
What happened to Havana after 1991 during the "Special Period in a Time of Peace"? Automobile use soared as the price of gasoline declined. |
Rural populations in eastern Cuba illegally migrated westward to the capital. |
After 1898, what foreign country got involved in Havana’s road and railroad expansion, sugar and cigar factory construction, and the newly arrived automobile industry? Spain |
United States |
What two cities rank just below Mexico City in the country’s urban hierarchy? Merida and Monterrey |
Guadalajara and Monterrey |
Which one of the following statements is not true of the Caribbean’s urban geography? Cites in the Lesser Antilles tend to sprawl across entire islands. |
Cites in the Lesser Antilles tend to sprawl across entire islands. |
According to the Griffin-Ford model, what category of land use borders the "spine" of a Latin American city? industrial land use |
elite residential land use |
Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, is dominant in El Salvador but now spreads from Canada to Colombia. What is Mara Salvatrucha? an exotic species |
a gang |
Capital city, metacity, world city: What is the only city in Middle America and the Caribbean that would fit each of these three categories? Mexico City |
Mexico City |
The military engineers who designed and laid out the Spanish Crown’s "New World" cities followed the: Vatican Protocols. |
Laws of the Indies. |
Which one of the following cities is incorrectly associated with the region in which it is located? Guatemala City is in Central America. |
Mexico City is in Central America. |
The ambulantes (street vendors) of South America’s cities: are counted as part of a city’s formal economy |
represent one of the few occupations open to poor women |
The growth of Lima during the second half of the 20th century could best be described as: slow and private-industry-controlled |
rapid and unplanned |
In the 19th century, South American cities became more integrated into the global economy by coordinating the export of primary commodities and the import of manufactured goods. What primary commodities were important in the 19th century? beef, minerals, coffee, rubber |
beef, minerals, coffee, rubber |
As the gap between rich and poor has widened in most cities of South America, what has happened to the urban elite? They have moved to protected luxury apartments and gated suburban communities. |
They have moved to protected luxury apartments and gated suburban communities. |
Guarded apartments, walled housing estates, chauffeured shuttles to private schools: these are all characteristics of: historico centros |
defensive urbanism |
Residential areas in the "Pilot Plan" of Brasília largely comprise: six-story apartment buildings |
six-story apartment buildings |
Brazil’s efforts to open up the interior of the country to settlement and development has: resulted in Brasília becoming the most important city in the country |
included establishment of new urban centers far from the coast |
The level of urbanization (percent urban) in South America approximates that of: South Asia |
the U.S. and Canada |
The colonial core of Lima, the central area of Brasília, and the Carioca landscapes of Rio de Janeiro have all been designated: New Wonders of the World by the New7Wonders Project. |
World Heritage Sites by UNESCO |
Lima: accounts for only 10% of Peru’s population, a small proportion by modern standards |
was used by the Spanish as a transshipment point for wealth extracted from the Andes |
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