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Urban Planning 100 FINAL EXAM Questions with 100% Correct In 1800, about 3% of the world's population lived in cities. Today, that proportion is: - about 55% The United Nations now recognizes a new category of city size: metacities. What is a metacity? - an urban agglomeration with over 20 mil...

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Urban Planning 100 FINAL EXAM

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In 1800, about 3% of the world's population lived in cities. Today, that

proportion is: - ✔✔about 55%

The United Nations now recognizes a new category of city size: metacities.

What is a metacity? - ✔✔an urban agglomeration with over 20 million

inhabitants

The world's three most populous urban agglomerations are located on what

continent? - ✔✔Asia

In which of the following regions would less than three-quarters of the

population live in urban areas? - ✔✔Southeast Asia

The world's first cities appeared where? - ✔✔Middle East and North Africa

According to the geographer Peter Hall, "the first great city in world history"

was: - ✔✔Rome

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Which one of the following is the most accurate statement about

mercantilism? - ✔✔Trade subsidies and trade monopolies were essential to

mercantilistic enterprise.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire, European cities declined, but in

East Asia at least one city stood at over a million residents. What was that

city? - ✔✔Changan (now Xi'an), China

What industry transformed the following cities: Adelaide, Australia; Tolliati,

Russia; Turin, Italy; Detroit, USA? - ✔✔automobile industry

Cities where raw materials or semi-finished products are transferred from

one-mode of transit to another are categorized as: - ✔✔transportation

centers

Which one of the following cities would be most likely to fit the principles of

central place theory? - ✔✔Decatur, Illinois, an agricultural service center

Large cities are fewer in number and farther apart than medium-sized

cities; medium-sized cities 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? - ✔✔central place theory

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Textile manufacturing would be illustrative of which sector of a city's

economy? - ✔✔secondary sector

Which one of the following jobs would most likely be classified as part of a

city's informal economy? - ✔✔street vendor

Which one of the following is an example of a non-basic economic activity?

- ✔✔strip mall in Kalamazoo, Michigan

Which of the following associations is not correct? - ✔✔concentric zone

model - pie cut into many pieces

The influence of the Central Business District (CBD) is least important in

which of the traditional models of city structure? - ✔✔Harris and Ullman's

multiple nuclei model

In the mid-20th century, London and New York came to exemplify the most

polluted cities in the world. What two large cities, today, might be chosen to

exemplify the most polluted? - ✔✔Delhi and Beijing

They are called by many local names: bidonvilles, bustees, gecekondu,

favelas, barriades. What are they? - ✔✔squatter settlements

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Because of persecution, war, or violence, over 25 million people in the

world have taken refuge in other countries. Eighty-five percent of these

refuges have relocated to the countries of: - ✔✔Global South

"The movement of products, money, information, and human talent around

the world in ever larger quantities, at ever lower costs, and in ever less

time." What is it? - ✔✔globalization

Consequences of traffic congestion in cities include: - ✔✔pollution, social

stress, and respiratory ailments

Urban areas often cannot solve the problems that confront them because: -

✔✔all of the above

"Loci of national sovereignty with landscapes that are charged with the

symbols of solidarity (real or imagined) and museums that are the attics of

the nation." To what category of cities does this description apply? -

✔✔capital cities

In the United States, which one of the following would have the largest

population? - ✔✔The Omaha Metropolitan Area

Which one of the following concepts is not paired with an appropriate

example? - ✔✔megacity - Jerusalem

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