The decentralized city can be identified by______________? A. the shift of employment and service away from the inner city towards multiple centers in smaller towns and rural areas B. the degendering of public space as women use local facilities more…
Urbanization occurred in the nineteenth century because_______________? A. commuters started moving out of villages and into cities B. towns and cities were becoming increasingly planned and managedC. industrial capitalism led to a shift of population from rural to urban areas…
Wirth (1938) said that social relationships in the urban way of life were segmental because______________? A. they were confined to particular areas of the cityB. people knew each other only through specific situational roles and not as whole rounded individuals…
Which regions of the world currently have the highest and lowest proportions respectively of population living in cities ? A. Highest Asia Lowest Africa B. Highest Europe Lowest OceaniaC. Highest North America Lowest Africa D. Highest Europe Lowest Africa
The term collective consumption (Castells 1977) refers to____________? A. the privatization of public services by the Conservative government B. the lifestyle practice of shopg in peer groups C. the form of tuberculosis suffered by those who collect stampsD. the provision…
The theorist who associated city life with the development of a blase attitude was____________? A. TonniesB. Simmel C. Weber D. Wirth
Which of the following was not a common feature of ancient cities ? A. walled boundaries B. relatively small populationsC. a strong influence over external D. geographically small in size
What is gentrification ? A. the movement of the middle classes into suburban areas B. a policy aimed at renovating inner-city council housing stock C. building shopg centers in cities to create employmentD. renovation of run-down city neighborhoods to attract…
In Which year did the urban areas of the world become more populous than rural areas ? A. 1950B. 1975 C. 1999 D. 2007
Cultural restructuring has involved________________? A. regenerating cities in economic decline B. turning industrial landscapes into tourist attractions C. selling sites and images through the symbolic economy of media advertisingD. all of the above