Deck 5: Suburbanization Globalization and Emergence of the Mcmr

Question 1

Transportation technology, such as trolley services and commuter rail has historically been both the cause and the means of residential suburban development.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT among the examples of satellite cities discussed in the chapter?

A) Gary, IN
B) Bethlehem, PA
C) Pullman, IL
D) Elizabeth, NJ

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following are among Taylor's (1915) explanation for the creation of satellite cities?

A) Manufacturing plants south cheaper real estate and wide property to accommodate assembly line construction
B) Industrialists hope to avoid union organizing activities, which were concentrated in cities
C) Shipping was typically more efficient for manufacturing plants in satellite cities
D) Answers A and B
E) All of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which city commonly associated with the steel industry discussed in the chapter saw its manufacturing workforce decline from 32 to 144 percent of the labor force between 1930 and 1980?

A) Gary, IN
B) Pittsburgh, PA
C) Lowell, MA
D) Buffalo, NY
E) Louisville, KY

Question 5

A bifurcated labor market comprised of two layers - a core of nodal services forming the focus of internationally important economic growth that employs highly trained professionals, and a second segment of relatively low-paid service workers who clean the buildings and maintain the landscaped areas and provide other low-skilled services, describes what kind of city?

A) A satellite city in a regional economy
B) A nodal city in the developing world
C) The service city in the globalized economy
D) An industrial city in the sunbelt

Question 6

In what year did the US Census find that for the first time more people were living in suburbs than in other settlement spaces?

A) 1950
B) 1970
C) 1990
D) 2010

Question 7

In 2016, about what proportion of the US population lived in metropolitan regions, including cities and suburbs?

A) 51%
B) 61%
C) 71%
D) 81%

Question 8

Blacks are overrepresented in the central city and underrepresented in the suburbs relative to their total population.

Question 9

What is the term for policies involving local control over land use and building codes that prohibits the building of low- or moderately priced housing and exacerbates racial and class segregation?

A) Exclusionary zoning
B) Homestead ordinances
C) Restrictive land provision
D) Residential commission

Question 10

The last enclosed mall built in the US was built in what year?

A) 1982
B) 1993
C) 2006
D) 2011

Question 11

Almost all of the forty-five New York City based Fortune 500 companies are in which sector of the economy?

A) The financial sector
B) The information technology sector
C) The media and communications sector
D) The tourism sector

Question 12

Urbanization in a pattern of deconcentration of commercial, retail, and government services in the city center and the reconcentration of these land uses in functionally specialized regional minicenters is a hallmark of which era of urban development in which place?

A) Mercantile-colonial
B) Industrialization
C) Monopoly caitalism
D) Global capitalism

Question 13

What is the term for the settlement space produced by the combined deconcentration and reconcentration, with population and societal activities moving away from historical city centers, and a reconcentration in minicenters across the region?

A) Multicentered metropolitan region (MCMR)
B) Polka-dot metropolis (PDM)
C) Aggregated regional development (ARD)
D) Satellite-connected sprawl (SCS)

Question 14

What is the term for the combination of workers who are "off the books," goods produced in unregulated factories with nonunionized and undocumented laborers, goods and services produced and exchanged for barter (i.e., not cash but in kind), and goods and services sold without regulation on the streets?

A) The service economy
B) The informal economy
C) The irregular economy
D) The bootstrap economy

Question 15

What is suburbanzition? What are some specific examples and what does it look like?

Question 16

Define and describe the concept of the multicentered metropolitan region.

Question 17

Explain the role of government policies, from federal housing policies to local exclusionary zoning practices, in shaping the housing market and patterns of suburbanization and residential segregation.

Question 18

How has economic restructuring and globalization re-shaped settlement patterns across multicentered metropolitan regions?

Question 19

What is the sun belt? Compare and contrast the development of settlement space in the sun belt with other areas of the US.