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Web Urban Sociology Terms in this set (129)Classical Athens stood as a monument to ___, free citizens participation in government For all intents and purposes, large-scale industrialization began in England about __. 1750 Now a city of 12 million people, Beijing was formerly called ___. Peking Friedrich Engels spoke of which English city with these words: "...it is a city in which one can roam for hours without leaving the built-up area and without seeing the slightest sign of the approach of open country." London Gan's "Cosmopolites" are ___. usually highly educated The fastest growing urban region is ___. the suburbs The exurbs are ___. the newer ring of settlement beyond the old suburbs The height of the "Great Immigration" period took place ___. between 1880 and 1910 The fastest growing nonwhite population is ___. Hispanics The Hull House addressed the needs of immigrant women and families. Suburban growth after World War II was promoted by ___. all of the above Gentrification has increased property values in the neighborhoods where it takes place. Ebenezer Howard believed that the city lacked sense of freedom City planning in the industrial era was driven primarily by ___. profit Government planning of new towns is absent for the most part in ____. United States The utopian planner most associated with "arologies" is Soleri In Frank Lloyd Wright's ideal world, ___. people would pay no rent The "city of the big shoulders" that rocketed to prominence in barely 50 years is ___. Chicago In 1871, a fire consumed 1,700 acres within 24 hours and left some 100,000 people homeless. The new city became more of a "growth machine" than ever before. The city is ___. Chicago
According to political economists ____. the distribution of wealth and power are important determinants of the shape of cities. The "new urban sociology" ____. draws on Marxism According to the Central Place Theory: d.all of the above are true Alonso's model suggests that ___. as distance form the Central Business District increases, rent decrease. According to Valentine, the fact that poor African Americans paid significantly higher prices for their groceries that others illustrates: the fact that black residents often have limited choices regarding where to shop. Richard Fox's city types included all but which of the following. d. medieval cities The structural context of the last decade include all but which of the following: an increase in manufacture jobs Henri Lefebvre: argues that urban development is a product of the capitalist economic system. In Lefebvre's theory, "abstract space" is the type of space considered by government and businesses David Harvery's research: is based on Lefebvre's ideas about the second circuit of capital According to David Harvery, governments shape a city's use of space "Welfare capitalism" describe a market system where the government provides workers with subsidies. Castell's concept of the mode of development: both: is based on the similar Marxist concept of mode of production, and can be used to understand industrial growth in suburbs. The fact that many industries absorbed their competitors and formed oligopolies ___. illustrates horizontal integration Vertical disintegration is linked to all but which of the following: increase in the northeastern U.S. urban population According to Logan and Molotch, urban growth coalitions focus on ways to increase profits and economic activities. In the United States, economic restructuring includes: both: a decline in the proportion of manufacturing jobs in overall employment, and a rise in entry-level jobs for lower- skilled workers. According to Wirth, urbanism describers __. the distinctive lifestyle associated with the growth of cities. Wirth would argue that cities differ from small towns or rural areas by all of the above: their large number of heterogeneous people, high density, and cosmopolitan lifestyle. Gans argues that Wirth's analysis of the urban lifestyle was___. applicable to part of the urban population Individuals in Gans's "Unmarried and Childless" category ___. are responsible for the gentrification of urban neighborhoods. According to Gans, urban lifestyles are shaped most strongly by____. social position and age Recent research on homelessness found that families are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population. Claude Fischer believes that the city's ecology intensify people's subcultural characteristics The fastest growing urban region is the suburbs In 1990, approximately what proportion of the U.S. population resided in suburbs? 46% Suburban growth in the 1850s was promoted by railroads The area of Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania was on of the nation's first suburbs. Suburban growth after World War II was promoted by ___. all of the above: people's desire to own a home, economic prosperity, and the desire to escape minority-occupied housing of the central cities. Since the 1970, suburbs have become more racially diversified The Exurbs are the newer ring of settlement beyond the old suburbs. In 1990, immigrants represented what percentage of Miami's total population? Approximately one-third Since 1960, the majority of immigrants have been: people of color The process known as "chain migration" describes the idea that: immigrants tend to settle near friends and relatives Throughout the 1800s , most of the U.S. black population: lived in urban areas Which of the following did not contribute to black migration to the North: urban decentralization, the growth of industrial production which followed WWII, the decline for southern agriculture, and farm mechanization. urban decentralization Karl and Alma Taeuber's study shows that: segregation can be measured by an index of dissimilarity Puerto Ricans: enjoy open migration privileges Mexican American women: have a fertility rate twice as high as the non-Hispanic population Since 1965, the Chinese-American population quadrupled Native Americans who migrate to the city: experience a culture clash Female participation in the labor force: was very limited among upper-and middle-class women throughout the nineteenth century Chicago was incorporated as a city in: 1833
Chicago political machine: focused on maintaining the quality of the central business district Gerald Suttle's study of the Addams area on Chicago's West side suggests that: each ethnic or racial group claim their own territory The housing problem is characterized by: all of the above: an insufficient number of low-rent housing units, property owner's search for greater profits, and an increase in the proportion of high-rent housing units. Government intervention in housing began: with the New Deal The federal housing programs of the New Deal had all but which following goal: Seize decaying areas and give them to developers willing to rehabilitate them Edward Banfield argues that: residents' irresponsible behavior is often to blame for the lack of public housing success. The Section 8 Program: provides rent subsidies to low-income tenants Deterioration of buildings in inner-city occurs because: their maintenance represents more costs than rental income warrants "Sweat Equity" allows individuals with low income to invest in a residence Gentrification: has increased property values in the neighborhood where it takes place
The "New Urbanism" is sometimes criticized for: the fact that it reduces the number of low-income housing units Crime rates today are: highest in cities Within urban areas, crime is most concentrated in poor neighborhoods Hernstein and Murray argue that: inner-city residents are more likely to commit crime because of their lower IQ Black-White residential segregation: explains inter-city variations in the black murder rate Oscar Newman found that crime rates: could be reduced by improving architectural design The Inca Civilization was based in what is now Peru Anthropologists estimate that the population of native Latin Americans declined by ___ % during the sixteenth century. 95 The chief reason for the loss of life among Latin American natives in the sixteenth century was Both: wars with the Spanish and Portuguese colonists, and diseases imported from Europe Which of the following would be found in the plaza mayor in a Latin American colonial city? All of the above: Catholic church, government offices, wealthy residences. Primate Cities developed most often countries which were or are under foreign control An argument given in the text against primate city development is that: the primate city serves s a magnet for migration and constrains the development of other cities. Highly developed urban centers were present in Africa as long ago as ____. 3000 B.C.E. Early African cities were typically: all of the above: linked by trade, had narrow and winding streets, and had rich and poor living next to one another. The second wave of European colonization in Africa began in ___. 1862 The world's oldest well-known city, Jericho, is nearly : 10,000 years old According to Costello, Islamic cities declined after the Middle Ages due to: topsoil depletion European powers sought to change the Middle East by: trading with it The first country to colonize part of India was Portugal British sections of dual cities are both: typically arranged in a grid pattern, and have a railroad run through them. The People's Republic of China was established in 1949 Colonization has several common legacies. Which of the following is/are among these legacies all of the above: economic, political, national boundaries. Latin American cities lag far behind those in Europe, Canada, and the United States because: with raw material exports as their primary source of wealth, most Latin American cities never developed much of an industrial base. According to the text, in global perspective, Africa: all of the above: is a continent in crisis, is the least urbanized continent, has the highest rate of increase in urbanization Which of the following is NOT one of Abu-Lughod's patterns of current urbanization in the Middle East? sixth world Deng Xiao-Ping's most radical innovation was the establishment of "Special Economic Zones" Which of the following is NOT one of the cities of Southeast Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok Hong Kong Japan's sever pollution is due to all of the following Except: rapid industrialization, lax pollution regulations, high population density. lax pollution regulations Which of the following/are among the common problems of the cities of the developing world? all of the above: spiraling populations, quality of life problems, quality of life problems, shanty towns Critics of modernization theory point out that: both: Third World countries are not developing the way the West did, and Third World economic growth is slower than Western growth. According to interventionist theory, urban overpopulation can be controlled by: all of the above: governmental regulation to promote fewer births, government regulations to support smaller cities, residence permits. Ebenezer Howard believed that the city lacked sense of freedom Early planning efforts were directed at all of the following excepts: to conserve natural resources. City planning in the industrial era was driven primarily by: profit Alice Constance Austin wanted new towns based on ___. communal living with kitchen-less houses New Towns have been criticized for being: all of the above: too small, too low density, and inflexible Government planning of new towns is absent for the most part in: United States The new town in the United Stats which has been most successful in creating racial and social class interrogation is: Columbia, Maryland Celebration, Florida, is notable for: all of the above: its city plan which calls for homes to re-create the atmosphere of the per-World War II small town, a mixture of both expensive and low-coast housing, and a model school given a financial boost from the Walt Disney Company. The utopian visionaries all share all of the following features except: high population densities, financial impracticality sociological naivete, rigidity in their visions high population densities Heckscher emphasizes which of the following as being important to urban life? all of the above: squares, artwork, and architecture Portland is notable for all of the above: being the only U.S. city with an extinct volcano, having the world's smallest park, and having the largest number of microbreweries of any U.S. city.. All of the
following are true about city planning except: planners should be allowed to control all aspects of how cities are built. The image of a city, as defined by Kevin Lynch, is the generalized mental picture of the city's external physical world People form images of cities by: both: distinguishing between physical locations in the city, and organizing the physical locations in a meaningful way. The five common elements in urban images according to Lynch are: districts, edges, landmarks, nodes, and paths Stanley Milgram listed all of the following items as having an impact on how people draw their mental maps of a city except. discussions with others Pedestrian traffic in the U.S. is characterized by all of the following except people walk blindly into traffic An urban network is interpersonal ties Elizabeth Bott found that working class spouses had a segregated marriage network while middle-class spouses had a joint one. Identifying with the city is aided by all of the above: sports teams, festivals, negative historical events. Gerald Suttles argues that the images which people have about cities are objective reality Most urban poor try to cope with the harsh realities of life through forming social networks Virginai Schein's single mother on public assistance all were working on had some work experience Carol Stack found in her study of poor African Americans that they punished those who refused to reciprocate in the mutual aid network We make sense of the city by responding to its: All of the above: physical form, gesellschaft characteristics, geminschaft characteristics. We respond to the city All of the above: in our own unique way, using common strategies, based on our social characteristics. Sets with similar termsurbs 15089 terms jmcgovern99 URBAN PLANNING91 terms yareny2919 URP 3001 Exam 194 terms blanchardf97 urban sociology midterm156 terms billy_rush Sets found in the same folderSoc 307 Final141 terms srh_arthur Urban Studies156 terms Sara_Michel2 UBS 150 Midterm Study Guide Chpt. 1, 2, 364 terms crystal_lozano8 UBS 150 Midterm Study Guide Chpt. 4, 6, 758 terms crystal_lozano8 Other sets by this creatorBCBA CHH Study Set121 terms billy_rush BCBA349 terms billy_rush BCBA Exam - Success!566 terms billy_rush Reserch Methods Final111 terms billy_rush Verified questions
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