Question 1

What made urban sprawl possible?

Accepted Answer

A)   improvements in transportation
B)   suburbanization of jobs
C)   relatively cheap fuel
D)   all of theseE) All of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 2

What best describes the layout of the industrial city?

Accepted Answer

A)   factory production and nearby worker housing
B)   agricultural fields that dominate small factories
C)   temples encircled by the elite and then the poor
D)   master-planned cities with parks and monumentsE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 3

What is an example of a merchant city?

Accepted Answer

A)   Paris
B)   Venice
C)   London
D)   RomeE) C) and D)
F) A) and D) B

Question 4

What is a merchant city?

Accepted Answer

A)   preindustrial city involved in international trade and commerce
B)   site of development of a commercial society that regulates private interest
C)   established civic communities that defined collective rules and the public realm
D)   all of theseE) A) and B)
F) A) and C) D

Question 5

What did NOT occur with the urban-agricultural revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)   a loss of freedom
B)   greater work discipline
C)   more time devoted to work
D)   an ethic of social equalityE) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 6

What is an accurate description of the insecure residential status of slum dwellers?

Accepted Answer

A)   self-built housing is a universally, legally-recognized claim to the land
B)   slums lack legal title to the land and are subject to government removal
C)   self-built housing is often made of permanent materials to prevent demolition
D)   slum dwellers were indigenous residents of the city, denied land rights recognitionE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

According to the number of hours spent at work, what group has the most freedom and disposable time?

Accepted Answer

A)   rice farmers in southern China
B)   American corn farmers
C)   Kalahari hunter-gatherers
D)   Brazilians growing sugarcaneE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 8

What is NOT a characteristic of the third urban revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)   rapid, global change
B)   increasing size of individual cities
C)   cities as part of large metropolitan regions
D)   ample affordable housing provided formallyE) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 9

What is accurate about the layout of the first preindustrial cities?

Accepted Answer

A)   poor located in the city center
B)   elite located along the periphery
C)   temples located at the city center
D)   temples located at the peripheryE) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

How many inhabitants turn a large urban agglomeration into a megacity?

Accepted Answer

A)   1 million
B)   5 million
C)   10 million
D)   25 millionE) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 11

What characterizes the third urban revolution and the creation of larger city regions as the new building blocks of both national and global economies?

Accepted Answer

A)   globalization
B)   metropolitanization
C)   industrialization
D)   urbanizationE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 12

What caused the development of agriculture, providing enough demand in one place to stimulate new sources of food production?

Accepted Answer

A)   cities
B)   religion
C)   trade
D)   animal domesticationE) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 13

Where do the fastest rates of urban growth occur?

Accepted Answer

A)   northern hemisphere
B)   developed countries
C)   southern hemisphere
D)   developing countriesE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 14

What was the second urban revolution linked to?

Accepted Answer

A)   religious revival
B)   new merchant class
C)   industrialization
D)   mass urbanizationE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 15

Where does the majority of the world's population now live?

Accepted Answer

A)   suburbs
B)   rural areas
C)   urban areas
D)   coastal areasE) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 16

What country had its cities at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A)   Canada
B)   Britain
C)   United States
D)   GermanyE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 17

What term refers to the unplanned, often illegal neighborhoods of self-built housing?

Accepted Answer

A)   subsidized housing
B)   slums
C)   dumps
D)   informal housingE) C) and D)
F) A) and B) B

Question 18

What were the earliest cities particularly vulnerable to?

Accepted Answer

A)   ecological collapse
B)   scarcity of building supplies
C)   demographic collapse
D)   conquest and lootingE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 19

What is NOT a marker of a "slum of hope"?

Accepted Answer

A)   continued buildup into fully formed urban neighborhoods
B)   more buildings constructed from permanent materials
C)   receives municipality status, legal title, and public services
D)   rapid expansion into environmentally hazardous areasE) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 20

What is most negatively impacted by the expansion of megacities?

Accepted Answer

A)   ecosystems and biophysical systems
B)   transportation and energy systems
C)   political systems and governments
D)   social systems and inequalityE) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

Exam 16: The Urban Transformation

What made urban sprawl possible?

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What best describes the layout of the industrial city?

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What is an example of a merchant city?

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What is a merchant city?

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What did NOT occur with the urban-agricultural revolution?

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What is an accurate description of the insecure residential status of slum dwellers?

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According to the number of hours spent at work, what group has the most freedom and disposable time?

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What is NOT a characteristic of the third urban revolution?

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What is accurate about the layout of the first preindustrial cities?

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How many inhabitants turn a large urban agglomeration into a megacity?

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What characterizes the third urban revolution and the creation of larger city regions as the new building blocks of both national and global economies?

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What caused the development of agriculture, providing enough demand in one place to stimulate new sources of food production?

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Where do the fastest rates of urban growth occur?

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What was the second urban revolution linked to?

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Where does the majority of the world's population now live?

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What country had its cities at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution?

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What term refers to the unplanned, often illegal neighborhoods of self-built housing?

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What were the earliest cities particularly vulnerable to?

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What is NOT a marker of a "slum of hope"?

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What is most negatively impacted by the expansion of megacities?

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