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Question 1 of 20

1. Question
The central business district (CBD) contains all but which of the following?
- Business services
- Consumer services
- Public services
- A major athletic arena or stadium
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Question 2 of 20

2. Question
The CBD is at the center of
- Burgess’s concentric zone model and Hoyt’s sector model
- Burgess’s concentric zone model and Harris’s and Ulman’s multiple nuclei model
- Hoyt’s sector model and Wallerstein’s core–periphery model
- Harris’s and Ulman’s multiple nuclei model and Wallerstein’s core–periphery model
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Question 3 of 20

3. Question
In the early twentieth century, if people in the lower economic class walked from their homes to a ring of factories and if middle class people rode streetcars to those factories, then the city most likely followed which of the following models?
- The concentric zone model
- The gravity model
- The multiple nuclei model
- The sector model
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Question 4 of 20

4. Question
A city follows which of the following models when its neighborhoods are built around transportation corridors that radiate out from a CBD?
- The concentric zone model
- The gravity model
- The multiple nuclei model
- The sector model
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Question 5 of 20

5. Question
Bookstores, coffee shops, and pizzerias cluster around universities. Hotels, warehouses, and shipping services cluster around airports. Together, they represent the
- The concentric zone model
- The gravity model
- The multiple nuclei model
- The sector model
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Question 6 of 20

6. Question
Latin American cities are usually based on the
- The concentric zone model
- The core–periphery model
- The multiple nuclei model
- The sector model
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Question 7 of 20

7. Question
As American cities redevelop their CBDs, they provide a mix of housing, recreation, entertainment, and cultural amenities. These amenities attract people who are in the upper-income brackets. This phenomenon is known as
- Agglomeration
- Counter-urbanization
- Gentrification
- Gerrymandering
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Question 8 of 20

8. Question
How is the concentric zone model different in European cities than it is in North America?
- Europeans are drawn to the CBD for cultural opportunities
- The upper classes tend to live in the first ring out from the CBD in Europe
- Upper, middle, and low-income people live in homogeneous communities in Europe
- Upper, middle, and low-income people live in heterogeneous communities in Europe
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Question 9 of 20

9. Question
Which of the following explains why one might find low-income people living on the suburban fringe in European cities?
- European states give generous subsidies to mass transit
- European cities have large numbers of squatter settlements
- Zoning requirements prohibit people from living near the CBD
- Socialist policies require people with low-incomes to live in the suburbs
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Question 10 of 20

10. Question
If a metropolitan area develops a doughnut-shaped pattern in which the population density of the core declines while the population density the outer periphery increases, then the metropolitan area may be ringed with
- Edge cities
- Market areas
- Satellite cities
- Zones of disamenity
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Question 11 of 20

11. Question
A city and its suburbs are known as a
- Macropolis
- Metropolis
- Metropolitan statistical area
- Urbanized area
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Question 12 of 20

12. Question
The continuous area of urbanized land from Boston to Washington, D.C., is a
- Hypercity
- Megacity
- Megalopolis
- Megametropolis
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Question 13 of 20

13. Question
An area of a city with improvised housing made of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes on land that the residents do not own or rent is a
- Exo-city
- Squatter settlement
- Tent city
- Zone of disamenity
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Question 14 of 20

14. Question
Which of the following was not a cause of rapid suburbanization in the United States in the 1950s?
- Government-subsidized mortgages for veterans
- Interstate highways
- A post-war economic boom
- Two-income families
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Question 15 of 20

15. Question
Which of the following did not exclude African Americans from settling in the suburbs?
- Redlining
- Restrictive covenants
- Widespread public transit
- Zoning laws
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Question 16 of 20

16. Question
Suburban sprawl can be contained with
- Annexation
- Social area analysis
- Smart growth plans
- Urban renewal
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Question 17 of 20

17. Question
The construction of which of the following paralleled the rise of suburbs in the 1950s?
- "Big box” superstores
- CBDs
- New urbanism
- Shopping centers
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Question 18 of 20

18. Question
Which of the following is not true of gentrification?
- It attracts high-income people to older parts of the city
- It displaces low-income people from their homes
- It is based in part on new urbanism
- It frequently occurs in suburbs
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Question 19 of 20

19. Question
Which of the following theories, when applied to the local level, may explain the disparities in financial resources between cities and suburbs?
- Borchert’s epochs of transportation
- Sauer’s cultural landscape theory
- Von Thünen’s land-use theory
- Wallerstein’s world systems theory
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Question 20 of 20

20. Question
A group of people trapped in an inter-generational poverty from which it is difficult to escape is known as a(n)
- Disenfranchised class
- Impoverished class
- Underclass
- Working class
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1. Question

The central business district (CBD) contains all but which of the following?

2. Question

The CBD is at the center of

3. Question

In the early twentieth century, if people in the lower economic class walked from their homes to a ring of factories and if middle class people rode streetcars to those factories, then the city most likely followed which of the following models?

4. Question

A city follows which of the following models when its neighborhoods are built around transportation corridors that radiate out from a CBD?

5. Question

Bookstores, coffee shops, and pizzerias cluster around universities. Hotels, warehouses, and shipping services cluster around airports. Together, they represent the

6. Question

Latin American cities are usually based on the

7. Question

As American cities redevelop their CBDs, they provide a mix of housing, recreation, entertainment, and cultural amenities. These amenities attract people who are in the upper-income brackets. This phenomenon is known as

8. Question

How is the concentric zone model different in European cities than it is in North America?

9. Question

Which of the following explains why one might find low-income people living on the suburban fringe in European cities?

10. Question

If a metropolitan area develops a doughnut-shaped pattern in which the population density of the core declines while the population density the outer periphery increases, then the metropolitan area may be ringed with

11. Question

A city and its suburbs are known as a

12. Question

The continuous area of urbanized land from Boston to Washington, D.C., is a

13. Question

An area of a city with improvised housing made of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes on land that the residents do not own or rent is a

14. Question

Which of the following was not a cause of rapid suburbanization in the United States in the 1950s?

15. Question

Which of the following did not exclude African Americans from settling in the suburbs?

16. Question

Suburban sprawl can be contained with

17. Question

The construction of which of the following paralleled the rise of suburbs in the 1950s?

18. Question

Which of the following is not true of gentrification?

19. Question

Which of the following theories, when applied to the local level, may explain the disparities in financial resources between cities and suburbs?

20. Question

A group of people trapped in an inter-generational poverty from which it is difficult to escape is known as a(n)