URP3001 – Module 7 Quiz – Flashcards
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In the future, some administrative functions of the EU are likely to shift from Brussels and Frankfurt to cities such as Warsaw and Budapest. How would that shift be described by geographers?
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as a shift from core to periphery
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In world cities like London and Paris, the most visible group of people on the streets of the CBD is:
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young professionals
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What ranges across Europe from 200 in Norway to 20,000 in Greece?
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definitions of the number of people needed to be classified as an urban place
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What city is often thought of as the capital of Europe because it is the European Union's administrative headquarters? Paris
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Brussels
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Which of the following processes has contributed most to metropolitan decentralization in Europe?
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Deindustrialization
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Urban Graffiti:
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covered the Berlin Wall as a form of political protest
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What are Europe's two megacities (excluding Moscow)?
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London and Paris (Moscow and Berlin are the others)
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Paris has:
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a new business district focused around the development pole known as La Défense
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Market gardens once occupied peripheral lands around European cities. What has happened to those zones of market gardening?
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They have been overtaken by suburbanization.
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Bucharest's landscape was transformed by Romanian President Ceauçescu after he came to power in 1966. Which one of the following is not part of Ceauçescu's legacy?
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preservation of the city's historic central areas
