Unit 7 Test Questions
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Chicago’s relative location near other major city networks gave the urban place a comparative advantage for
successful economic growth. This statement best describes Chicago’s
a. threshold
d. density
b. site
e. functional zonation
c. situation
2. Tony and Jacob are brothers who decided to move into an old warehouse in downtown New York City and
fix it up into a slick loft apartment complex. Tony and Jacob’s actions are most closely classified as
a. suburbanization
d. gentrification
b. urban morphology
e. redlining
c. social stratification
3. All the following are processes that have contributed to ghettoization in North American Cities EXCEPT
a. blockbusting
d. green belts
b. redlining
e. suburbanization
c. social stratification
4. Tokyo is many times larger than the second-ranked city in Japan, thus making Tokyo a(n)
a. periferico
d. squatter settlement
b. central business district
e. primate city
c. hinterland
5. All of the following are common preconditions found in areas that became urban hearths EXCEPT
a. access to water sources
d. a long growing season
b. access to building materials
e. social stratification
c. arable land
6. Which of the following processes most influences the existence of a zone of transition in concentric urban
growth patterns?
a. Exurbanization
d. Decentralization
b. Successive Immigration
e. Zoning
c. Agglomeration
7. The Latin American city typically differes from the North American city in which of the following ways?
a. The Latin American city often has higher d. The North American city shows more
densities in peripheral zones and less
influence of the sector model growth
population in the central business district
patters that does the Latin American city
b. The central business district is more
e. The urban realms model is more strongly
dominant in its influence over its related
explanatory and predictive of Latin
urban land in the North American city
American urban growth than it is of North
than in the Latin American city
American growth
c. The Latin American city typically does
not show as strong a trend toward
suburbanization as does the North
American city
8. Which of the following is the smallest scale of geographic inquiry by the U.S. census bureau?
a. Metropolitan statistical area
d. Census tract
b. Micropolitan atatistical area
e. County
c. Metropolitan area
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9. Which of the following central place functions is most likely to have the highest range of goods and highest
threshold population?
a. Used car lot
d. Steakhouse
b. High school
e. Furniture Store
c. Hand-surgery center
____ 10. Which of the following is a strong example of postmodern urban landscape?
a. Cairo, Egypt
d. Washington D.C.
b. Brasilia, Brazil
e. Rome, Italy
c. London, England
____ 11. According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in country X has 100,000 inhabitants, how many people will
live in country X’s fourth-largest city?
a. 80,000
d. 25,000
b. 75,000
e. 10,000
c. 50,000
____ 12. The concept of exurbanization is illustrated in which of the following scenarios?
I. Thirty-three year old Marqueze and his wife move from Chicago to San Francisco to take advantage of a
new job opportunity.
II. Twenty-five year old Tina decides to move to the heart of New York City to enjoy the cultural vibrancy
and diversity during her youth.
III. Fifty year old Margaret and Tom pack up and move to a rural, country-style home outside Louisville,
Kentucky, to escape the fast pace of city life.
IV. Nineteen year old Marcus decided to move from the city he grew up in to a peripheral farm, both to
experience rural labor and to write poetry.
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a. I
d. III and IV
b. II and III
e. I, II, III, and IV
c. I and II
Which of the following is an example of a person working in the nonbasic employment sector?
a. Assembly-line worker in an iPod factory d. University medical researcher
b. Video game software engineer
e. High School English Teacher
c. International public relations agent
Which of the following statements correctly describes the economic employment mix that began to emerge in
many U.S. cities after World War II?
a. U.S. Cities have become increasingly
d. Most U.S. jobs are being outsourced to
dominated by industrial activities.
foreign labor supplies.
b. Workers’ unions are reaching their
e. The majority of U.S. jobs are moving
hightest level of influence in American
from being consuption related to more of a
history
production orientation.
c. Urban jobs are becoming increasingly
service oriented and require learned skills
Which of the following best illustrates the concept of a 20th and 21st century shock city?
a. Chicago
d. Osaka
b. Paris
e. Lagos
c. Madrid
Planned communities would most likely be found in what type of urban setting?
a. Transition zones
d. American suburbs
b. CBDs
e. Ghettos
c. Perifericos
____ 17. This model is based on the assumption that growth occurred independently around several major foci, many
of which were far away from the CBD and olny marginally connected to it.
a. Sector model
d. Urban realms model
b. Central place theory
e. Model of Urban evolution
c. Multiple-nuclei model
____ 18. Which of the following rivers was NOT a cultural hearth of urbanization?
a. Tigris
d. Rhine
b. Euphrates
e. Nile
c. Huang He
____ 19. The star-shaped city pattern resulte from the dominance of which transportation system?
a. Beltways surrounds
d. Interstate highways linking cities
b. Lines of public transportation extending
e. Roads leading to airports that link cities
from the CBD
c. Pedestrian walkways within the CBD
____ 20. The area serviced by a central place is called a
a. hinterland
d. threshold
b. sphere of influence
e. redline
c. range
____ 21. Chauncy Harris’s peripheral model is focused on describing a central city in relation to
a. surrounding edge cities
d. manufacturing areas
b. residential neighborhoods
e. zones of transition
c. surrounding rural zones
____ 22. In contrast to a country with a primate city, a country whose cities follow the rank-size rule is more likely to
have
a. wealth concentrated in urban areas
d. unequal living standards between larger
and smaller cities
b. fewer cultural centers
e. a smaller overall population
c. more equality between urban and rural
living standards
____ 23. The growth rate of the earliest cities in world history was made possible primarily by the development of
a. job specialization
d. the ability of farmers to raise a surplus
b. large concentrated population
e. diversification of villages
c. government capable of control
____ 24. Today many U.S. cities have stopped their spatial growth primarily because
a. many people are moving from urban to
d. infrastructure expenses have overwhelmed
rural areas
many city governments
b. residents in outlying areas (suburbs)
e. they are responding to demands for more
organize their own services rather than
green belts
pay city taxes for them
c. geographic barriers do not permit further
development
____ 25. The primary reason that more women than men live in or near central cities is the
a. feminization of poverty
d. gentrification of many urban
neighborhoods
b. growing number of employment
e. lack of available housing in the suburbs
opportunities for women
c. superior level of city services that meet
family needs
____ 26. Chrisaller’s central place theory is least likely to be applicable to
a. rural areas
b. special function cities
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d. multi-function cities
e. regions were people have similar life
styles and incomes
c. regions with multiple towns
Which of the following is a correct statement about the megacities of the world?
a. The largest by far is New York-Newark
d. Megacities are located in many parts of
the world
b. None are in Latin America
e. The largest megacities are located in
China.
c. Most are either in North America or
Europe
The spatial design of cities in northern Africa is influenced heavily by
a. European traditions, with a cathedral at
d. trading patterns with sub-saharan Africa
the center
b. a historical aversion to trade
e. traditional governments, with palaces for
monarchs at the center
c. Islamic traditions, with a mosque at the
center
Which of the following was one of the original urban hearth regions?
a. the Mississippi River Valley
d. France
b. Indus River Valley
e. South Africa
c. Rome
The smallest, least complex type of settlement in the urban hierarchy is the
a. farm
d. hamlet
b. village
e. suburb
c. town
All of the following were factors that encouraged suburban growth in the United States after World War II
EXCEPT:
a. more affordable automobiles
d. better roads and highways
b. the GI Bill of Rights
e. construction of megastores and malls
c. public transportation systems that were
built in most cities
Which of the following is the best example of a central place with a large hinterland?
a. Minneapolis
d. Tampa
b. Buffalo
e. Denver
c. Fort Worth
In the United States, neighborhoods are divided into areas of approximately 5,000 people that are called
a. census tracts
d. edge cities
b. basic sectors
e. greenbelts
c. complementary regions
Which of the following is NOT a defining characteristic of a world city?
a. important stock exchanges
d. concentrations of cultural offerings
b. a non-polarized social structure
e. national and international seats of political
power
c. concentrations of business services
During the course of the 19th century, the growth of cities in the United States became increasingly dependent
on access to
a. navigable waterways
d. railroad transportation
b. water power
e. highway transportation
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c. shorelines
Which of the following describes the gorwth of a city in a series of wedges out from the central business
district?
a. Burgess’s central place theory
d. core periphery model
b. Cristaller’s central place theory
e. Hoyt’s sector model
c. Harris and Ullman’s multiple nuclei
theory
As a city grows, it usually experiences an increase in the size of its
a. basic sector
d. export activities
b. manufacturing areas
e. deglomeration
c. nonbasic sector
Which of the following is least likely to live close to a city center?
a. unmarried young professional
d. older married couple
b. young married couple without children
e. young family with children
c. one-parent family headed by a female
Which of the following settlement types is likely to use the largest percentage of land space for residences?
a. town
d. hamlet
b. suburb
e. village
c. physical city
Which of the following types of cities was created by the Industrial Revolution?
a. city-state
d. primate city
b. mercantile city
e. megacity
c. manufacturing city
All the facilities that support basic economic activities to such a degree that a city cannot function without
them is called the
a. base ratio
d. infrastructure
b. hierarchy of central places
e. urban influence zone
c. sprawl
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In contrast to Hoyt’s model of urban land use, Harris and Ullman’s model
a. does not differentiate urban
d. includes and zone in transition
neighborhoods according to social class
b. has more than one center of urban growth e. describes the central city’s relationship to
edge cities
c. shows that cities develop in a series of
sectors
____ 43. According the U.S. Bureau of Statistics, a central county or counties with at least one rubanized area of at
least 50,000 people, plus adjacent outlying counties with a larte number of residents that commute in is called
a
a. megalopolis
d. metropolitan statistical area
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b. physical city
e. primate city
c. nucleated settlement
By about 1000 C.E. all of the following were major cities in the world EXCEPT:
a. London
d. Kyoto
b. Constantinople
e. Chang’an
c. Baghdad
Which of the following is most likely to have the largest activity space?
a. an 8-year old boy who lives in the suburbs d. a middle aged man who lives in a suburb
b. an older man who has retired
e. a middle aged woman who lives in a rural
area
c. a young professional woman who lives in
the urban center
Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding urban growth in the world today?
a. Cities are large and growing in developed d. In most areas of the world, manufacturing
countries, but less developed countries
cities are growing faster than mercantile
have few cities
cities are.
b. Urban growth in Latin America has been e. The proportino of people living in cities is
greater than urban growth in Africa
rising in most countries.
c. The percentage of people living in urban
areas in Africa and Asia is larger than the
percentage living in urban areas in Europe
and North America
The basic sector of a city’s economy consists of
a. goods and services produced for residents d. functions that support the city’s
of the city itself
infrastructure
b. special functions in mining,
e. functions that shape the urban influence
manufacturing, and recreation
zones of a city
c. goods and services produced for areas
outside the city
In which of the following ways did the early southern ghetto differ from other ghetto models?
a. Blacks tended to live nearby the white
d. Whites strongly resisted blacks moving
communities
into their areas
b. Spatial and social segregation was
e. Ghettos were overcrowded, contributing
complete
to the deterioration of the housing
c. Blacks lived in high-density, deteriorating
housing on the margins of the central
business district
Which of the following accurately compares urban transportation systems in the United States to those in
western Europe and Japan?
a. The U.S. government provides more
d. People in European and Japanese suburbs
funding for urban transportation systems
are much more dependent on motor
than governments in Europe and Japan do
vehicles than are people who live in the
suburban U.S.
b. U.S. cities are more likely to have subway e. The percentage of people who travel by
lines, whereas European and Japanese
bus is much higher in the U.S. than in
cities are more likely to have busses
Europe or Japan.
c. Public transit is much more developed and
funded by governments in most European
countries and Japan
____ 50. The main power of zoning ordinances is to
a. support the development of a city’s
d. promote smart growth
infrastructure
b. prevent mixing of land uses within the
e. promote gentrification
same district
c. insure racial desegregation
____ 51. Nucleated settlement patterns are most likely to result in the formation of many
a. mid-sized cities
d. hamlets
b. large cities
e. megacities
c. towns
____ 52. Which of the following countries has the largest percentage of people who live in public housing?
a. the United States
d. Germany
b. France
e. Britain
c. Mexico
____ 53. As the distance increases from the center of the city, the density of residents and houses decreases, a change
called the
a. base ratio
d. multiplier effect
b. density gradient
e. urban hierarchy
c. complementary effect
____ 54. One important goal of smart growth is to
a. produce more nutritious food
d. limit overall population growth
b. stimulate the growth of suburbs
e. curb urban sprawl
c. encourage the growth of a city’s basic
sector
____ 55. Which of the following is NOT true of edge cities?
a. they have their own central business
d. They often have business that provide jobs
districts
for residents within their boundaries
b. They generally have few transportation
e. They exist in most areas of urbanized
connection to older inner cities
Anglo America.
c. They often organize their own services
rather than pay city taxes for them
____ 56. Which of the following developed an important model that explained different land uses within cities?
a. E.W. Burgess
d. W.W. Rostow
b. Walter Christaller
e. Carl Sauer
c. George Perkins Marsh
____ 57. According to urban geographers, as a city grows, a multiplier effect takes hold in which
a. the ration of basic sector workers to
d. special-function cities increase in numbers
nonbasic sector workers decreases
whereas manufacturing cities decrease in
numbers
b. the ratio of basic sector workers to
e. urban influence zones increase more
nonbasic increases
rapidly than the size of the actual city
c. smaller cities grow more rapidly than
larger cities
____ 58. Which of the following is NOT one of the ten largest megacities in the world?
a. Tokyo, Japan
d. Chicago, Illinois, United States
b. Mexico City, Mexico
e. Delhi, India
c. Seoul, South Korea
____ 59. Which of the following are primate cities in their respective countries?
a. Paris, London, New York
d. New York, Montreal, Mexico City
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b. Paris, London, Seoul
e. Berlin, Shanghai, Mumbai
c. London, Seoul, Beijing
The size of ancient cities was limited to a few thousand inhabitants mainly because
a. transportation between major cities was
d. their inhabitants developed no systems of
limited and slow
writing and record-keeping to help
organize resources
b. existing systems of food gathering,
e. few early civilizations codified laws to
storing, and distribution would not have
ensure that society functioned smoothly
supported a larger population
c. they had an undeveloped social class
system, so they had no powerful elites
Three social characteristics of urban areas identified by Louis Wirth during the 1930s were
a. large size, strong social class systems,
d. large size, high density, and social
organized governments
heterogeneity
b. high density, large size, and social
e. secondary economic activities, tertiary
equality
economic activities, and primary
economic activities
c. agglomeration, transportation, and friction
of distance
The deindustrialization trend is most evident today in
a. China and Japan
d. Latin America and Canada
b. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East e. Southeast Asia and Latin America
c. The United States and Europe
Which of the following is a correct statement about the major cities of the world?
a. Most are located on rivers or seacoasts
d. They are concentrated between the tropic
of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn
b. Most are found in areas that are not very e. The world’s fastest growing cities are
suitable for agriculture
found in areas with the highest standards
of living
c. Most primate cities are located in the
United States and western Europe.
Most Latin American cities are focused on a
a. central plaza
d. skyscraper office building
b. government housing project
e. squatter settlement
c. zone of heavy industry
Today, most of the United States and Canadian population lives in which of the following?
a. Farming areas
d. Metropolitan areas
b. Rural nonfarming areas
e. Small towns
c. Central cities
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According to the model, the road between which cities will have the highest volume of traffic
a. S and Q
d. X and Q
b. S and V
e. X and Y
c. U and S
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The Daily Rag provides news to all the cities in the region and wants to build a new distribution center. If
The Daily Rag distributes its papers according to city size, which city is best located for minimizing
distribution costs?
a. P
d. X
b. Q
e. Z
c. S
Multiple-nuclei model of city structure tends to be most applicable to
a. small cities
d. newer, fast growing cities
b. traditional cities
e. cities with homogeneous land use
c. Latin American cities
Which of the following was NOT one of the five original urban hearth regions
a. France
d. North China
b. Mesopotamia
e. The Indus Valley
c. Mexico
Locational advantages important to the development of the earliest cities included
a. availability of good harbors for large ships d. good connections by roads and canals
b. productive agricultural land and defensible e. proximity to manufacturing areas
sites
c. temperate climate and proximity to coal
mines
Which of the following refers to the size and functional complexity of cities?
a. Multiplier effect
d. threshold ratio
b. Urban hierarchy
e. the sector model
c. Basic-nonbasic ration
Historically, the growth of North American suburbs was most constrained by
a. high land values
d. housing shortages
b. zoning ordinances
e. cultural preferences
c. limited transportation
____ 73. Which of the following is a true statement about classic models of city structure?
a. the concentric zone model does not have a d. The multiple nuclei model and the sector
transitional area
model are similar in that they both have
only one core
b. the sector model is high influenced by
e. The interaction between the central city
transportation patterns
and the suburbs is greatest in the ruban
realm model
c. The central business district has the most
dominant position in the multiple nuclei
model
____ 74. In recent decades all of the following have played a major role in the rapid growth of Sun Belt cities of the
United States EXCEPT
a. immigration from Latin America
d. climatic changes leading to colder
northern winters
b. high levels of per capita federal spending e. increasing demand for retirement centers
in the South and West
c. cheap land and labor
____ 75. Which of the following groups of cities contains the best examples of central places with large hinterlands?
a. San Diego, Milwaukee, and New Haven d. Las Vegas, Victoria, and Buffalo
b. Atlanta, Denver, and Calgary
e. Miami, Philidelphia, and Quebec City
c. Baltimore, Ottowa, Duluth
____ 76. In Latin America, data for employment in many large urban areas are most likely to be incomplete because
a. employment is growing too rapidly
d. many people work in the informal sector
b. people change jobs regularly
e. most people are unemployed
c. records are kept mainly for male workers
____ 77. In the United States and Canada, which areal unit best approximates a city neighborhood in size?
a. a census tract
d. a congressional district
b. a county
e. a metropolitan area
c. a municipality
____ 78. Today, the greatest number of urban dwellers is found in
a. North America
d. Europe
b. South America
e. Asia
c. Africa
____ 79. International company headquarters, significant global financial functions and a polarized social structure are
defining characteristics of
a. primate cities
d. world cities
b. entrepots
e. edge cities
c. forward capitals
____ 80. Prior to 1850 the location of all major North American cities was related, chiefly, to the presence of
a. transcontinental highways
d. navigable waterways
b. defensive sites
e. water power
c. railroad junctions
____ 81. The alignment of ancient Chinese cities toward the cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) best illustrates
the importance of which of the following factors in the shaping of these early cities?
a. Belief systems
d. Gender
b. Topography
e. Technology
c. Economics
____ 82. All of the following have helped create ghettos in North American cities EXCEPT:
a. blockbusting and racial steering
d. fixed school district boundaries
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b. redlining by financial institutions
e. Economic Enterprise Zones
c. concentration of public housing and social
services
An urban center that is disproportianately larger than the second largest city in a country and that dominates
the country’s social, political, and economic activities can be best classified as
a. a megalopolis
d. an edge city
b. a conurbation
e. an imperial city
c. a primate city
Which of the following is useful for describing a settlement node whose primary function is to provide
support for the population in its hinterland?
a. Von Thunen’s model of land use
d. Rostow’s model of economic development
b. Concentric zone model
e. Christaller’s model of central place
c. Core-periphery model
Which of the following was NOT a reason for rapid suburbanization in the United States after the Second
World War?
a. Mass production of the automobile
d. Expansion of the interstate highway
system
b. Reduction in long-distance commuting
e. Availabilty of low down payment terms
and long-term mortgages
c. Expansion of home construction
According to the sector model of North American city structure, members of low-income groups tend to live
in which of the following places?
a. The inner-city only
d. Evenly dispersed throughout the urban
area
b. Peripheral temporary settlements
e. The suburbs and rural areas only
c. Linear residential areas radiating from the
center of the city outward
An urban area consists of of a central city and its contiguous built-up suburbs where population exceeds:
a. 100 persons per square mile
d. 2,000 persons per square mile
b. 1,000 persons per square mile
e. 500 persons per square mile
c. 10,000 persons per square mile
Which of the following is not a characteristic of urban settlements as defined by Louis Wirth in the 1930s?
a. Large size
d. High density
b. social heterogeneity
e. all of the above are characteristics of
urban settlements
c. intense feelings of belonging
Which is true of people living in urban settlements as opposed to rural settlements?
a. In urban areas, residents are related to a
d. rural residents know only a small
large percentage of other residents.
percentage of other residents
b. rural residents have greater freedom
e. urban residents have greater freedom
c. urban residents know a greater percentage
of other residents
In what year was the population in urban settlements estimated to exceed that in rural settlements?
a. 1850
d. 2008
b. 1750
e. 1904
c. 1988
Which of the following is true?
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a. In the United States, people with a higher d. three-fourths of people in LDCs live in
social status live closer to the center of the
urban settings.
city, while, in other parts of the world,
more wealthy people live in suburbs.
b. Latin American countries are more urban e. LDCs have a higher percentage of urban
than LDCs elsewhere in the world
dwellers than MDCs
c. MDCs are still rapidly urbanizing
Which of the following is not included in the legal definition of a city?
a. locally elected officials
d. responsibility for providing essential
services
b. an independent, self-governing unit
e. all of the above are included in the legal
definition of a city.
c. ability to raise taxes
Overlapping metropolitan areas, where a county or counties between two or more central cities send a large
number of commuters to each was named a _____________ by geographyer Jean Gottman.
a. megalopolis
d. boswash
b. primate city
e. metropolitan statistical area
c. socially homogeonous zone
What accounts for most of the urban growth in Africa?
a. migration to urban areas from rural areas d. Immigration from Asia
b. low unemployment rates
e. a high natural increase rate
c. Immigration from MDCs
Which of the following is not included in a metropolitan statistical area?
a. An urbanized area with a population of at d. A socially homogenous population
least 50,000
b. The county within which the city is
e. all of the above are included in a
located
metropolitan statistical area
c. Adjacent counties with a high population
density and a large percentange of
residents working in the central city’s
county
Eight of the ten most populous cities are now located:
a. north of the tropic of cancer
d. in South Asia
b. in less developed countries
e. in more developed countries
c. south of the equator
The first cities arose in
a. ancient Greece
d. central Mexico
b. hearths of early agriculture
e. near the equator
c. the Indian subcontinent
Some prominent Native American cities later became:
a. manufacturing hubs.
d. colonial cities.
b. agricultural distribution centers.
e. export processing zones.
c. gateway cities.
The Industrial Revolution
a. had little impact on urban areas.
d. made factory workers obsolete
b. spawned vast manufacturing centers.
e. caused an urban to rural migration
c. began in the Great Lakes region.
___________ is an important gateway city.
a. Oslo, Norway
d. Honolulu, Hawaii
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b. Perth, Australia
e. Denver, Colorado
c. Nairobi, Kenya
During the Middle Ages, ______________ dramatically slowed the growth of urban areas.
a. feudalism
d. Renaissance
b. colonialism
e. the Industrial Revolution
c. Black Death
Classic __________________ cities have narrow, winding streets, open-air markets, many dead-ends, and
courtyards surrounded by high walls.
a. medieval European
d. Islamic
b. Hindu
e. colonial
c. Latin American
Architects and planners from the ___________ strove to introduce beauty and impose order on chaotic
industrial cities.
a. postmodern school
d. beaux arts school
b. modernist tradition
e. classical movement
c. City Beautiful movement
Modernist architecture
a. stressed efficiency and geometrical order. d. is limited to newer American cities.
b. uses eclectic and classic forms.
e. is characterized by skyscrapers.
c. stressed the ornate.
Asian, African, and South American cities
a. contain dominant centers, usually
d. contain many structural relics from
surrounding something of religious
colonialism.
significance.
b. contain strong manufacturing and
e. usually have a church at the center of the
industrial sectors within the city.
city.
c. display mostly modern forms of
architecture as they are recently
developing themselves after colonialism.
Medieval European cities usually contain all the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. winding streets and tall narrow buildings. d. wide streets to accomodate large military
troops.
b. large, ornate cathedrals
e. a high density of buildings.
c. walls surrounding the city for defense
purposes.
Los Angeles provides an excellent example of
a. the Beaux Arts tradition
d. the concentric zone model
b. a central business district
e. disagglomeration
c. the multinucleated metropolis
Many Latin American cities conform more or less to the
a. theory of ghettoization
d. inner city decay theory
b. the sector model
e. the concentric zone model
c. the multinode model
In cities like Baltimore, inner-city revitalization has transformed ______________ into gentrified urban
neighborhoods.
a. suburbs
d. ghettos
b. central business districts
e. agglomeration
c. edge cities
Which of the following cities exemplifies an urban geography defined by railroads?
a. Boston
d.
b. Mexico City
e.
c. Chicago
____ 111. Which of the following best describes edge cities?
a. They are located along freeways on the
d.
outskirts of major cities.
b. They are usually found in Europe and
e.
Asia
c. They are small, isolated communities
____ 112. According to the central place theory,
a. small communities bind regions together. d.
b. most people live in mid-sized cities.
e.
____ 113.
____ 114.
____ 115.
____ 116.
San Francisco
Los Angeles
They are designed in the Beautiful City
tradition
They are gentrified communities
regions are impossible to define.
there are more large cities than small
cities.
c. large cities serve as economic hubs.
The coastal southern California and northern Baja, Mexico region can be described as a
a. central place
d. megalopolis
b. artificial construction
e. agglomeration
c. megacity
Which of the following was NOT one of the main elements contributing to a city’s legibility according to
Kevin Lynch?
a. Landmarks
d. Edges
b. Nodes
e. Districts
c. Links
Action space consists of
a. recreational facilities in an urban area.
d. a diagrammatic representation of the
amount of time it takes to travel between
activities on a particular day.
b. the space in which individual daily
e. the area surrounding the interactions a
activity occurs.
central place has with the surrounding
community.
c. spaces within a city designated for
transportation.
Individual spatial behavior on a daily basis
a. generally involves more shorter trips than d. mostly involves work-related travel.
longer trips.
b. can be described as that individual’s
e. All of the above
action space.
c. can be limited by transportation
possibilities.