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Practice Quiz Chapter 08
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Urban population densities tend to ________.
a) decline as a negative exponential function of distance from the centre of the city
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b) increase as an exponential function of distance from the centre of the city
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c) vary spatially, but not in any formal relation to the centre of the city
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d) vary spatially in relation to industrial areas
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e) result in an increase in the value of land as distance from the centre increases
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African cities ________.
a) are typically centred around a plaza
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b) are typically some mix of indigenous, Islamic, colonial, and European influences
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c) typically contain only formalized housing
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d) typically have outer regions connected by a perimeter road
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e) usually feature informal squatter settlements close to the centre of the city
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The idea that poverty and deprivation are transmitted intergenerationally, reflecting home background and spatial variations in opportunities is called ________.
a) rooflessness
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b) the cycle of poverty
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c) deindustrialization
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d) conurbation
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e) edge poverty
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The following situation could be classified as homelessness: ________.
a) Living in a house that is overcrowded
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b) Sleeping regularly at a shelter
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c) Living in a home that will likely be lost if the rent is raised
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d) Both A and B
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e) All of the above
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Back-office activities are ________.
a) skilled occupations
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b) repetitive office operations
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c) located in major office buildings
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d) performed through face-to-face interaction
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e) well-paid
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A garden city is ________.
a) a high-quality residential subdivision or community with access limited to residents and other authorized people
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b) a planned area of open, partially rural land, surrounding an urban area
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c) a planned settlement designed to combine the advantages of urban and rural living to emphasize spaciousness and quality of life
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d) a city that emphasizes environmental justice
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e) focused on building communities based on pedestrian movement and mass transit rather than private vehicles
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Conurbation is ________.
a) the development of a centre of office and retail activities located on the edge of a large urban centre
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b) a continuously built-up area formed by the coalescing of several expanding cities that were originally separate
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c) the opposite of suburbanization
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d) a lack of environmental justice
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e) a lack of mobility in cities
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New Urbanism focuses on building communities based on ________.
a) public ownership and massive multi-story buildings
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b) pedestrian movement and mass transit, rather than private vehicles
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c) access limited only to residents and authorized people
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d) telecommunications and an increase in spacetime convergence
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e) none of the above
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The ability to move from one location to another is ________.
a) accessibility
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b) mobility
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c) conurbation
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d) motility
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e) moveability
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Information technologies in relation to cities means ________.
a) a reduction in the need for personal mobility
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b) differentiation between back office and front office activities
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c) new divisions of labour
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d) all of the above
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e) none of the above
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