Human Geography (Malinowski), 1st Edition

Chapter 14: The Changing Structure of the City

Quiz



1.

At the periphery or perimeter of the modern city in the United States one might find
A)poor farmers.
B)ethnic minority workers.
C)skyscrapers.
D)wealthier people living mixed with farming.
2.

The first grid(s) in design are attributed to
A)the Romans who saw them as important in protecting cities.
B)the Greeks who saw rationality and symmetry in using them.
C)the French who took their ideas from the military organization of Napoleon.
D)the Germans who imagined Nazi Germany as a rational ‘Roman’ like society.
3.

Something the model of an industrial city might have that earlier cities did not would be
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A)a factory of mass production.
B)a ceremonial temple.
C)a dominant food market.
D)walls to protect from outside invasion.
4.

In the industrial city, worker housing was often found
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A)east of the factories.
B)where prevailing winds would bring the dirtiest air.
C)east of the owner housing.
D)all of the above.
5.

For the most part internal city functions today are divided into two categories, which are
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A)military and civilian.
B)royal and vassal.
C)transport and commercial.
D)private and public.
6.

Cities in the U.S. are less dense (or larger in area) because
A)transport has enabled the wealthy to move outward.
B)European and other Asian cities maintain more of their populations in high rise apartments.
C)in the U.S. farmers readily sell off their lands to urban development.
D)all of the above.
7.

Streetcars affect cities by
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A)enabling wealthier people to move farther away from the city center.
B)enabling poorer people to move into the CBD where before they were on the periphery.
C)losing the merchants in a tangle of confusing cross traffic patterns.
D)practically eliminating people employed in the fine arts from the city periphery.
8.

New interstate highways built post-1960 with their large highway rings around traditional city centers increased
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A)the development and commerciality of the CBDs.
B)the wealth of people living near the CBDs.
C)the construction of interchanges which fueled new Edge Cities on the periphery.
D)all of the above.
9.

The practice of predatory lending leaves what areas of the city at more risk?
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A)outer suburbs
B)middle class ‘old’ suburbs
C)lower income inner city areas
D)CBD skyscraper regions
10.

In third world cities, which would be the best example of an 'informal sector' job?
A)constructing DVD players in a Mexican maquiladora
B)finding day-by-day temporary work in the port of Barranquilla, Colombia
C)being a financial manager in a São Paulo skyscraper
D)working at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Braşov, Romania
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