Deck 17: Networks of Cities

Question 1

What type of network do periodic market systems belong to?

A) regional network
B) national network
C) global network
D) local network

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What is NOT an example of periodic markets?

A) farmers' markets
B) bazaars
C) flea markets
D) supermarkets

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What replaces a periodic market as demand grows in a location?

A) fixed market
B) farmers' market
C) commodity market
D) department store

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is the range of a good or service?

A) the distance consumers are willing to travel
B) the distance required for transport to the consumer
C) the size of the area required for production
D) the minimum population to support production and supply

Question 5

What is the threshold of a good or service?

A) the maximum limit on population that can be continually supplied
B) the maximum supply manufacturers are willing to ship to any location
C) the necessary minimum population needed to support continued supply
D) the minimum supply manufacturers are willing to ship to any location

Question 6

What is an example of a higher order good?

A) milk
B) cars
C) hairdresser
D) newspaper

Question 7

What is an example of a lower order service?

A) hospital
B) furniture store
C) school
D) grocery store

Question 8

What tends to shrink in economic importance when the range and threshold of goods and services both increase?

A) small towns
B) medium-sized towns
C) big cities
D) megalopolises

Question 9

What is NOT an observed form of an urban national network?

A) rank-size distribution
B) primate distribution
C) non-primate distributions
D) relative distribution

Question 10

What is the best description of a rank-size distribution?

A) a simple, regular relationship between city rank and population size
B) the relationship between city rank and its economic importance
C) a disproportionately large city dwarfs a national urban system
D) the relationship between city rank and colonial importance

Question 11

A primate city's population is more than ______times the combined population of the next two largest cities.

A) six
B) four
C) three
D) two

Question 12

What is LEAST likely to reinforce the primacy of a primate city in its national urban network?

A) economic shift in sectors
B) rural-to-urban migration
C) foreign investments
D) cultural production

Question 13

What country has a non-primate distribution when its national urban network is studied, but when this federal system is analyzed, each State has a hyperprimate city?

A) Austria
B) Australia
C) Russia
D) United States

Question 14

What two cities have long been the top of the global urban hierarchy?

A) Shanghai and Beijing
B) New York and Beijing
C) London and New York
D) Beijing and London

Question 15

What world region is rapidly growing and climbing up the global urban hierarchy?

A) Africa
B) Asia
C) Russia
D) South America

Question 16

What is reinforced when cities experience sustained social disruption?

A) global disconnect
B) interest of global capitalism
C) number of affluent consumers
D) chances of becoming a world city

Question 17

What is NOT one of the non-world cities identified in the text?

A) the poor city
B) the collapsed city
C) the excluded city
D) the fallout city

Question 18

What city represents a black hole because its national ideology has actively discouraged global economic connections?

A) Pyongyang
B) Brussels
C) Cairo
D) Rio de Janeiro

Question 19

What type of place is shaped by and shapes as the "space of transformative flows"?

A) nations
B) cities
C) states
D) towns

Question 20

What is the most realistic description of the global urban hierarchy?

A) There are actually varied hierarchies that depend on the flows being studied.
B) Only one fixed global urban hierarchy exists based on distribution of economic activity.
C) The global urban hierarchy is essentially fixed by the elites in alpha cities.
D) There is no way to represent or study the global urban hierarchy.