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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 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
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 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
,©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
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
,©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
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
, ©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
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
