Exam 16: Population and Urbanization

Why is Don Mills important in the study of suburbs?

In Burgess's model,where do illegal commercial activities tend to occur?

What is environmental-opportunity theory? Describe its application to where you have lived (or where you are currently living)and to where you foresee yourself living once you have finished your postsecondary education.

A metropolitan real-estate magnate has purchased an abandoned warehouse in the city's transitional zone,and is converting it on the street level to a mall with chic boutiques,while making the upper floors into condominiums.Which stage of city evolution applies to this inner-city development?

The Bank Act of 1871 was one of the major reasons for the concentration of the Canadian population into a few urban centres such as Toronto and Montreal.

Elise had recently moved to Toronto from a small town in Northern Ontario.When asked how she liked living in "the big city," she asserted that she missed the feeling of community that she had grown up with.Which theorist is Elise in agreement with?

In a class discussion,Tait was asked to give one outcome of the privatization of public space in the postmodern city.Which of the following would he offer?

Discuss the population debate between Malthus and Marx.Include more recent viewpoints from theorists cited in the text.

What is urban bias?

Felix and Beth were trying to decide whether to have another child or not,because of the associated costs.Ultimately,they decided they did not want to constantly worry about their finances and decided against having another child.Whose research could best explain their choice?

Artisans,soldiers,and other people from all walks of life resided in a community of roughly 40,000 people in southern Greece in the 10th century B.C.What kind of place was this community?

A demographer posits that although birth rates in developing countries are alarmingly high,there will be a dramatic shift to lower birth and death rates in the coming decades as these countries modernize.What concept describes his predictions?

What trends did Louis Wirth see as characterizing cities?

What was the focus of urban studies done by Robert Park and his colleagues at the Chicago School of Sociology?

According to the text,which of the following is included in the concentric-zone model of the city?

What are the advantages of gentrification for women?

Why did preindustrial cities contain only a small fraction of the overall population?

Apply the basic principles of Chicago School theories of urbanization to the development of a Canadian city.

For what reason does it appear that Vancouver's development has followed the sector model?

How might urbanization fuel large-scale violence in developing countries?