Unit V Zombie Review

Question 1

The wide boulevards built in cities in LDCs were most likely built during the…

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Colonial Period

Question 2

To deal with the financial problems in some areas of the cities, American city govts.

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Reduced services

Question 3

Public Transportation…

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Declined from 23 billion trips per year to 10 billion

Question 4

Compared to the UK, the amount of sprawl in the US is…

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Greater

Question 5

Because so few people live in the CBD, urban areas are characterized by a high degree of…

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Commuting

Question 6

The process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment is known as…

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Filtering

Question 7

Housing deterioration can occur when

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The rent a landlord collects becomes less than the needed maintenance costs
banks engage in redlining to ensure money isn’t lent to a particular area

Question 8

A process by which banks designate an area w/in which they refuse to lend money for improvements is

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Redlining

Question 9

Allows lower income families to remain in their home through public subsidies
Occurs because lower income families are no longer attracted to deteriorated housing
Stagnates the change in a city’s ethnic patterns

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Gentrification

Question 10

The underclass is characterized in part by a high rate of

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Drug addiction

Question 11

US inner cities face fiscal problems because

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low-income people are concentrated there

Question 12

compared to whites, AA in US cities are more likely to be

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Clustered in inner-city neighborhoods

Question 13

Metropolitan Statistical Areas

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Have populations of at least 50,000

Question 14

Megalopolis refers to

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Consolidated Metropolitan statistical areas

Question 15

Sprawl is the

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Development of new housing sites not contiguous to the existing built - up areas

Question 16

British cities are surrounded by open space known as

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Greenbelts

Question 17

The purpose of busing in many US schools is to

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Promote racially integrated schools

Question 18

the corridor that stretches from Boston to Washington DC

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Was named by Geographer Jean Gottmann

Question 19

When the models of urban structure developed in Chicago are applied to Rio de Janeiro, one conclusion is that

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The poorest people are located in different areas