World Development – Flashcards
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A new town is
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comprehensively planned to be as selfcontained as possible
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According to geographer Peter Hall, the first great city in world history was
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Rome
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Automobile manufacturing would be illustrative of which sector of a city's economy
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secondary sector
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Cities in More Developed Countries include those in all of the following except
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China
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Critical urban geographers reject traditional models of urban structure (e.g., Burgesss concentric zone model) for all of the following reasons except
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Traditional models do not give enough attention to the European roots of the city
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For a place to be classified as urban by the U.S. Census Bureau, it must have at least how many inhabitants?
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2,500
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How does the contemporary worlds urban population growth rate compare with the overall population growth rate?
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The worlds urban population is growing more rapidly than the worlds population as a whole
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In 1800, about ____ of the worlds population lived in cities; by 2007, the figure had increased to just over ____.
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3% - 50%
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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?
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a city or urban agglomeration with over 10 million inhabitants
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In the United States, which one of the following would have the largest population?
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The Omaha Metropolitan Area
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In which of the following regions would less than three quarters of the population live in urban areas?
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Southeast Asia
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Large cities are fewer in number and farther apart than medium sized cities; medium sized 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?
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central place theory
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Montreal was founded on the banks of the St. Lawrence River where the Lachine Rapids impeded upstream navigation. This is a description of Montreals:
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site
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No matter how large a settlement becomes, it does not become truly urban until:
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its workforce is divorced from the soil
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Postindustrial cites are likely to have their economic base in what sectors of the economy?
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tertiary and quaternary
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The influence of the CBD is least important in which of the traditional models of city structure?
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Harris and Ullmans multiple nuclei model
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The movement of products, money, information, and human talent around the world in ever larger quantities, at every lower costs, and in ever less time. What is it?
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globalization
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The region with the largest total urban population in 2000 was:
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East Asia.
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The worlds first cities appeared where?
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Mesopotamia
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There is disagreement over definitions of world cities and global cities, but according to Saskia Sassen, what are the only three truly global cities?
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New York, London, Tokyo
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They are called by many local names: bidonvilles, bustees, geçekondu, favelas, barriadas. What are they?
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squatter settlements
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Which one of the following associations is not correct?
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concentric zone model - pie cut into many pieces
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Which one of the following cities would be most likely to fit the principles of central place theory?
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Decatur, Illinois, an agricultural service center
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Which one of the following concepts is not paired with an appropriate example?
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primate city - New York City
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Which one of the following does not rank among the greatest of the worlds imperial cities?
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Nairobi of the 17th century A.D.
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Which one of the following is an example of a demographic change that almost always accompanies urbanization?
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The average number of children per family decreases.
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Which one of the following is an example of a nonbasic economic activity?
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small shopping center in Jamestown, New York
