Urban studies chapter 4 2023

__________ are new, sprawling, middle-class, automobile-dependent centers typically located at the fringe of older urban areas, at the intersections of major highways, where little except villages or farmland existed a few decades earlier. - Edge cities - Growth boundaries - Gated communities - Common-interest developments

Edge cities

Lifestyle communities primarily contain the affluent, top one-fifth of Americans. - True - False

False

The 2012 Urban Mobility Report identified continuing traffic congestion as being responsible for costing each traveler an annual average of 20 hours extra travel time. -True - False

False

The most acute traffic problem is in New York City, where the region's roadways are the most congested in the nation. - True - False

False

The U.S. and Canada Green Cities Index scored which city the best? - Detroit - Phoenix - St. Louis - San Francisco

San Francisco

A.C. Spectorsky was the first to use the term __________ in describing the appearance of new residential areas developing on the metropolitan fringe. - exurb - suburb - "the burbs" - small towns

exurb

In the United States, __________ can be traced to the late 1800s, when upper-income gated developments in New York's Tuxedo Park and private streets in St. Louis sprang up, as wealthy citizens sought to "insulate themselves from the troublesome aspects of rapidly industrializing cities." - political fragmentation - gated communities - smart growth cities - urban growth boundaries

gated communities

The text discusses three new city variations. Which of the following is NOT one of these? - new city as motivator - new city as a solution to problems - new city as the problem - new city as mediator

new city as mediator

Sprawl destroys downtown commerce by - raising rents for retailers - pulling shoppers from locally owned shops to large malls - limiting access to transportation - changing local traffic patterns

pulling shoppers from locally owned shops to large malls

The rise of new cities is essentially a function of - race - culture - social class - age

social class

What term is used to describe spread-out or low-density development beyond the edge of services and employment? - edge cities - sprawl - common-interest developments - gated communities

sprawl

Those seeking to curb sprawl base their concerns around four strategies. Which of the following is NOT one of these strategies? - suburban relocation - environmental damage - financial costs - harm to cities

suburban relocation

New cities possess many of the same characteristics of older cities. - True - False

true

The text points out that gated communities fall into one of three categories. Which of the following is NOT one of these? - lifestyle - prestige - urban growth - security-zone

urban growth

The major categories of new cities are uptowns, boomers, and greenfields. -True - False

True