Deck 18: The Internal Structure of the City

Question 1

What is NOT part of a building cycle?

A) trough
B) peak
C) recession
D) crash

Answer 1

C

Question 2

How many years on average do building cycles occur?

A) 5-7
B) 10-12
C) 15-17
D) 18-20

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What rates of return will attract investment and capital flows into the building of a city?

A) low
B) stable
C) high
D) variable

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What has historically been associated with the upswing of a building cycle?

A) transportation improvements
B) new political leadership
C) industrial innovation
D) population boom

Question 5

What is the visible legacy of each past building cycle in a city?

A) architecture style
B) transportation modes
C) parks and greenspaces
D) commemorative statues

Question 6

What type of housing is typically produced by institutional contract?

A) custom-designed dwellings
B) vast self-built neighborhoods
C) large public housing projects
D) neighborhoods of the very rich

Question 7

What describes speculative building?

A) contracted builders that construct custom-designed dwellings
B) purchasing land and constructing dwellings to sell
C) amateur builders that construct custom-designed dwellings
D) purchasing land and building massive housing blocks

Question 8

What characterizes most of the self-build housing across the world?

A) structures do not meet building codes
B) dwellings were built on land with no legal title
C) housing has no address and receives no services
D) all of these

Question 9

What is NOT one of the forms of housing tenure, or terms of occupancy?

A) social housing
B) owner-occupied housing
C) private renting
D) government-rented housing

Question 10

What is public housing?

A) accommodations intended only for emergency shelter
B) accommodations rented out to individual households
C) accommodations available on a first-come, first-serve basis
D) accommodations provided by government agencies

Question 11

Since housing is more expensive than average income, what is a requirement for mass homeownership?

A) education
B) credit
C) employment
D) lottery

Question 12

What is redlining?

A) Financial institutions expand mortgage allocations to low income minority borrowers.
B) Financial institutions restricted mortgage access of low income minority borrowers.
C) Financial institutions approve all mortgages, sell to investors, and go bankrupt.
D) Financial institutions identified areas for conservation, banning lending there.

Question 13

What is a subprime mortgage?

A) 10 to 20 percent down payment and some evidence of the ability to pay
B) 10 to 20 percent down payment and verified evidence of the ability to pay
C) no required down payment and no verifiable means of income
D) no required down payment but clear evidence of income

Question 14

What has led to the increase of household family size in richer countries?

A) expensive housing
B) shifting cultural norms
C) improving job market
D) lack of social security

Question 15

Why do certain groups tend to cluster together in the same residential neighborhood?

A) It is a choice to live among similar people.
B) It is a result of constraint through some type of discrimination.
C) It is both choice and constraint, depending on the group and the city.
D) It is neither choice nor constraint, but random factors.

Question 16

What is NOT an example of residential clustering by cultural group?

A) sexual identity
B) religion
C) ethnic identity
D) education

Question 17

What model of the city as residence is a more recent composite of a previous model by incorporating both rings and pockets into a complex, heterogeneous metropolitan area that better reflects an urban reality of today?

A) Murdie model
B) Hanlon-Short-Vicino model
C) Burgess model
D) Hoyt model

Question 18

What term represents how rowdy behavior is considered permissible in New Orleans during Mardi Gras?

A) spaced times
B) holiday
C) gentrification
D) time and place

Question 19

What is an example of what households might consider undesirable or a "public bad"?

A) good schools
B) clean water
C) motorways
D) electricity

Question 20

What variable has been correlated with the location of hazardous waste sites in the United States?

A) race
B) religion
C) political power
D) economic wealth

Question 21

What is NOT one of the three types of protest?

A) call for goods and services
B) households can move away
C) expression of cultural identity
D) demand for political power