URP 3001 Ch 1,2,3,4

Textile manufacturing would be illustrative of which sector of a city's economy?

Which one of the following concepts is not paired with an appropriate example? megacity --> Jerusalem conurbation --> the Rhine-Ruhr area of Germany primate city --> Moscow megalopolis --> Boston to Washington

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, European cities declined, but in East Asia at least one city stood at over a million residents. What was that city?

Over the next fifty years, virtually all of the world's urban population growth will be concentrated in urban areas located in:

Which term is best used to refer to "a city and its suburbs"?

Which one of the following continents does not now have one of the world's five most populous urban agglomerations?

What industry transformed the following cities: Adelaide, Australia; Tolliati, Russia; Turin, Italy; Detroit, USA?

In which of the following regions would less than three-quarters of the population live in urban areas?

The United Nations recently inaugurated a new category of city size: metacities. What is a metacity?

Which one of the following would be categorized as an urban environmental risk at the local scale with a short-term impact?

Where is Los Angeles?

Where is Rio de Janeiro?

Of the following, which one would you be least likely to find in the wealthiest jurisdictions of Los Angeles such as Beverly Hills?

Which one of the following is not one of the U.S. and Canada's eleven recognized megalopolitan regions?

With respect to language, the Ottawa city region is:

Smog in which one of the following cities provides an example of transnational air pollution because pollutants are carried across an international border by prevailing winds?

Growth of what industry betrays the transition of Cleveland and Pittsburgh to a post-industrial economy?

What category of land use accounts for an enormous one fifth of urban land in the United States?

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?

The technological development responsible for urban sprawl in the U.S. is the:

In the United States, which one of the following would have the largest population?

Post-industrial cities are likely to have their economic base in what sectors of the economy?

Cities where raw materials or semi-finished products are transferred from one mode of transit to another are categorized as:

Which one of the following concepts is not paired with an appropriate example?

In 1800, about 3% of the world's population lived in cities. Today, that proportion is:

Which one of the following is an example of a demographic change that almost always accompanies urbanization?

"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?

Incorporating water into urban landscapes:

What US city grew because of a superior situation that was enhanced by the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825?

Textile manufacturing would be illustrative of which sector of a city's economy?

Which one of the following is the most accurate statement about mercantilism?

Regardless of how large a settlement is, it does not become truly urban until:

Montreal was founded on the banks of the St. Lawrence River where the Lachine Rapids impeded upstream navigation. This is a description of Montreal's:

Large cities are fewer in number and farther apart than medium-sized cities; medium-sized cities 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?

Which one of the following cities would be most likely to fit the principles of central place theory?

Which one of the following associations is not correct?

A trip to Taipei, Taiwan, to study the Matsu parade would make an appropriate chapter for a book on the:

The world's first cities appeared where?

How does the contemporary world's urban population growth rate compare with the overall population growth rate?

Which one of the following is an example of a non-basic economic activity?

Over the next fifty years, virtually all of the world's urban population growth will be concentrated in urban areas in located in:

Continents which do not have any megacities at the present time include:

There is disagreement over the criteria which differentiate world cities and global cities. According to Saskia Sassen, however, what are the only three truly global cities?

Cities in which of the following countries would be classified as post-socialist cities?

A new town is:

When sewer and storm water drains are combined into a single system:

"The movement of products, money, information, and human talent around the world in ever larger quantities, at ever lower costs, and in ever less time." What is it?

According to geographer Peter Hall, "the first great city in the world history" was:

Which one of the following jobs would most likely be classified as part of a city's informal economy?

If you were studying cities located in the More Developed Countries, you might consider case studies in all of the following except:

For a place to be classified as urban by the U.S. Census Bureau, it must have at least how many inhabitants?

n 1800, about ____ of the worlds population lived in cities; by 2007, the figure had increased to just over ____.

In 1950, there were at most two megacities in the world. Today, there are at least 20. According to the United Nations, what is a megacity?

In which of the following regions would less than threequarters of the population live in urban areas?

Large cities are fewer in number and farther apart than mediumsized cities; mediumsized 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?

No matter how large a settlement becomes, it does not become truly urban until:

The influence of the Central Business District (CBD) is least important in which of the traditional models of city structure?

The region with the largest total urban population in 2000 was:

The worlds first cities appeared where?

Which one of the following is not an alternative term for Third World

The Ottawa city region's emergence as the Silicon Valley of the North has been stimulated by the presence of:

The over-consumption of water in U.S. cities is sustained and encouraged by:

Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland rose to prominence during what era of urban history?

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?

Los Angeles was a small town in the 1880s. What then precipitated a growth boom?

The immigrant population of Toronto:

In first, second, and third places among U.S. metropolitan areas in population size are

Hyperdiverse immigrant cities in the United States and Canada are characterized by:

Migration has always fueled the growth of Los Angeles. Before the 1960s, most migrants were coming from

Montreal has lost the headquarters of many of Canada's 500 largest companies to what city

It has a population of over 50 million. It is where 1 out of every 6 Americans live. It is responsible for 20 percent of the United States' Gross Domestic Product. What is it?

Canada's Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs):

The immigrant population of Los Angeles:

All of the following have fueled the growth of creative and designed-based industries in Montreal except:

Shopping malls are to lifestyle centers as:

Which one of the following would not be associated with "fortress cities" as conceptualized in the book City of Quartz?

Which one of the following is not an example of a city where immigration is a relatively new and very important phenomenon

The militarization of city police forces contradicts the concept of:

That national capital of Canada has long acted as a nexus of compromise between:

Which one of the following is not an example of a city where immigration is a relatively new and very important phenomenon?

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?

In first, second, and third places among U.S. metropolitan areas in population size are:

When compared to water from the tap, bottled water is:

Which one of the following monikers would not fit Los Angeles?

Which one of the following is not one of the U.S. and Canada's eleven recognized megalopolitan regions?

Which one of the following describes the political status of language in Montreal?

What would you be least likely to find in the scores of "edge cities" which have materialized on the fringes of major metropolitan areas?

Which one of the following statements is not true about New York City?

Montreal has lost the headquarters of many of Canada's 500 largest companies to what city?

Which one of the following is not a characteristic of the Third Urban Revolution?

In global city regions:

Migration has always fueled the growth of Los Angeles. Before the 1960s, most migrants were coming from:

Brazil's 1956 Development Plan designated what city as the site of the country's foreign-led automobile industry beginning with Volkswagen?

The three megacities of South America are:

Which one of the following is not true with respect to spatial segregation in South American cities?

Brazil's efforts to open up the interior of the country to settlement and development has:

Guarded apartments, walled housing estates, chauffeured shuttles to private schools: these are all characteristics of:

The ambulantes (street vendors) of South America's cities:

Which one of the following South American cities is most vulnerable to sea level rise?

The colonial core of Lima, the central area of Brasília, and the Carioca landscapes of Rio de Janeiro have all been designated:

A "Water War" erupted in Cochabamba, Peru, in 2000. What event precipitated these major uprisings and multiday protests by the city's citizens?

The easy‑going Carioca, the annual Carnival, Copacabana Beach, and Sugarloaf Mountain are iconic images of:

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Bogota has successfully developed what two alternatives to the automobile as methods of moving people around the city?

São Paulo's economic base was initially tied to the growing and transshipment of:

The cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were founded in what century?

Which pair of cities is Portuguese‑speaking?

One of the main reasons for the building of Brasília was to:

As the gap between rich and poor has widened in most cities of South America, what has happened to the urban elite?

Residents of asentamientos humanos and villas meserias usually lack security of tenure, which means that they lack:

The earliest urban anchor of Portugal's colonial holdings in South America and the second largest city in the entire Portuguese realm at the time was:

One reason why affluent gated communities have located in low-income jurisdictions of Buenos Aires' suburbs is because of:

Brasília:

According to the Griffin-Ford model, what category of land use borders the "spine" of a Latin American city?

Which one of the following cities is incorrectly associated with the region in which it is located?

Which city among the following has the highest per capita income and the lowest rates of gang violence?

Mexico City stands on the site of the pre-Colombian Aztec capital of:

Which of the following is not associated with the concept of "enclave urbanism"?

What impact did the maquiladora program have on Mexico's urban geography?

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?

In the foreseeable future, what may challenge Panama City's virtual monopoly on commerce between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

What components of the 21st century urban landscapes of Latin American cities are not accounted for by the Latin American city model?

The European settlement of Middle America and the Caribbean began circa:

Metropolitan San José is characterized by extensive sprawl, which threatens the sustainability of the city. What costs are associated with that sprawl?

The viability of intermediate-sized cities in Middle America and the Caribbean will depend on:

In general, the historico centros of cities in Middle America and the Caribbean have:

Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, is dominant in El Salvador but now spreads from Canada to Colombia. What is Mara Salvatrucha?

Which one of the following is not true of the development that stretches from Cancun to Belize City?

What happened to Havana after 1991 during the "Special Period in a Time of Peace"?

Havana was founded in 1514 on the Caribbean coast of Cuba, but the area's swampy and unhealthy nature forced colonists to relocate. The relocation of Havana was the result of problems with the original city's:

What city was hit by an earthquake in 2010, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving thousands homeless?

According to the Griffin-Ford model, what typifies the center of a Latin American city?

With one exception, the capital cities of Central America are connected by what road, which is often called the region's "backbone"?

Which one of the following is proportionally the least important constituent of the ethnic geography of Central American cities?

When it was founded in 1519, Panama City was important to the Spanish Crown because it offered a connection to:

What capital city is sometimes referred to as a "Tropical Manhattan" or a "Singapore for Central America"?

The industrial free zone along the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti operates on the same principles as:

Havana's prosperity during the first hundred years of its existence was tied to its role as:

What drove the initial demand for African slaves in the Caribbean Basin?

What two cities rank just below Mexico City in the country's urban hierarchy?

The military engineers who designed and laid out the Spanish Crown's "New World" cities followed the:

Tijuana and Mexicali:

The cities of Central America are prone to which of the following environmental hazards?

Old San Juan is typical of cities founded by the Spanish in America in that it has:

What crop had consolidated Central America's national capitals by the end of the 19th century?

To what city would you travel to see the oldest permanent European settlement in the Americas?

The large tract of open space surrounded by colonial buildings in the center of Mexico City is known as the:

Capital city, metacity, world city: What is the only city in Middle America and the Caribbean that would fit each of these three categories?

The migration of Mexican workers to the United States began in the 1940s because: