chapter 5

What European city was divided between East and West by a famous artificial barrier to keep people from fleeing westward during the Cold War? Copenhagen Berlin Budapest Prague

Berlin

The human geography of cities in what country has been transformed by huge immigrant populations from the Caribbean, India, and Pakistan? Germany France Italy Britain

Britiain

What city is often thought of as the capital of Europe because it is the European Union's administrative headquarters? Strasbourg Paris Brussels Luxembourg

Brussels

Barcelona, though located in a Spanish-speaking country, is a bilingual city. What language other than Spanish is commonly heard and seen in Barcelona? Portuguese French Catalan Basque

Catalan

Which of the following processes has contributed most to metropolitan decentralization in Europe? National planning Political fragmentation Privatization Deindustrialization

Deindustrialization

Of the following, which country best exhibits rank-size distribution in its urban system? France Germany Austria Greece

Germany

What period of urban history began in the Midlands of England in the 1700s, sparking massive rural-to-urban migration and changing the structure of cities? Industrial Period Baroque Period Post-Industrial Period Proto-Communist Period

Industrial Period

What European cities have the continent's busiest airports? London, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam Madrid, Milan, Rome, Frankfurt Rome, Berlin, Paris, London

London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam

Tea houses (salons de thé) on the streets of Brussels and other European cities provide social space for immigrant men from what part of the world? North Africa South Asia Mediterranean Europe Turkey

North Africa

According to the European Green Cities Index, the most environmentally sustainable cities are those located in: Eastern Europe Southern Europe Northern Europe Central Europe

Northern Europe

Which one of the following is not one of the signature landscape features of Berlin? Palace of Culture and Science Brandenburg Gate U-Bahn stations Potsdamer Platz

Palace of Culture and Science

Controversy over the cultural landscape of what city followed the construction of a glass pyramid in the 19th century forecourt of the Louvre? Berlin Paris London Barcelona

Paris

What city in Europe evolved around an island in the Seine River? Berlin Geneva Amsterdam Paris

Paris

Which one of the following cities is both a primate city and a national capital? Berlin Zurich Rome Paris

Paris

Shanghai and Singapore are the world's largest ports. What city hosts Europe's largest port? Rotterdam Copenhagen Amsterdam London

Rotterdam

Market gardens once occupied peripheral lands around European cities. What has happened to those zones of market gardening? They have been made more productive by genetically-modified foods. They have been preserved as greenbelts. They have been converted zones of boutique food production. They have been overtaken by suburbanization.

They have been overtaken by suburbanization.

Immigrants from India brought chicken tikka masala to London. What immigrant group brought the döner kebab to Berlin? Italians Indonesians Turks Persians

Turks

Which one of the following characterizes the internal structure of most European cities? sprawling suburbs abandoned downtowns streets patterned on an orthogonal grid low‑rise skylines

low‑rise skylines

According to concentric zone theory, which one of the following would be located farthest from the city center? zone of independent working class houses street car suburbs run-down 19th century housing middle-class automobile suburbs

middle-class automobile suburbs

The highest concentration of Muslims in France is in: poorly serviced, public high-rise apartments in Paris' grande couronne the new towns and suburban employment centers surrounding Paris upstream from Ile de La Cité Paris' old inner suburbs called the petite couronne

poorly serviced, public high-rise apartments in Paris' grande couronne

Paris has: limited its growth potential by remaining isolated from Europe's high-speed rail lines an underdeveloped financial services sector a new business district focused around the development pole known as La Défense significantly decreased its dominance of France in the last half century

a new business district focused around the development pole known as La Défense

In ancient Greek cities (such as Athens) the "high city" was called the: metropolis polis acropolis megalopolis

acropolis

Oslo is: a port city as well as a capital city the city where the Nobel Peace Prize is announced annually a city in which nature reserves comprise two-thirds of its territory all of the above

all of the above

In the future, some administrative functions of the EU are likely to shift from Brussels and Frankfurt to cities such as Warsaw and Budapest. How would that shift be described by geographers? as a shift from core to periphery as a shift from east to west as a shift from sectors to multiple nucleations as a shift from democratic to authoritarian realms

as a shift from core to periphery

Geographer Roger Brunet identified the core of Europe as a curving urban corridor of high-tech industries and services which he called the: European Boomerang Golden Quadrilateral Urban Crescent Blue Banana

blue banana

What was the most influential force in molding the cities of Eastern Europe from the 1950s through the 1980s? market forces centralized planning mercantile capitalism royal decrees

centralized planning

The highly urbanized Randstad of the Netherlands and the Rhine‑Ruhr area of Germany have diameters of about 70 miles. These two are examples of: metropolitan areas conurbations ecumenopolis world cities

conurbations

Urban Graffiti: is usually welcomed by local governments and tourism authorities is associated mainly with gang warfare had its beginnings in the industrial ghettos of 19th century cities covered the Berlin Wall as a form of political protest

covered the Berlin Wall as a form of political protest

What ranges across Europe from 200 in Norway to 20,000 in Greece? definitions of the number of people needed to be classified as an urban place average territorial sizes of European cities in square kilometers average dollar value per capita of investment in post-secondary education number of leading industrial corporations in European cites, by country

definitions of the number of people needed to be classified as an urban place

Leninvaros in Hungary was renamed Tiszauvaros, and Karl-Marx-Stadt in Germany was renamed Chemnitz as a direct result of the: fall of Communism rise of immigrant populations pressure of indigenous peoples influence of the church

fall of Communism

The central plaza or market of ancient Roman cities was called the: forum piazza agora citadel

forum

Bucharest's landscape was transformed by Romanian President Ceauçescu after he came to power in 1966. Which one of the following is not part of Ceauçescu's legacy? boulevards designed as socialist gateways to the city suburban homes replaced by apartment blocks the House of the Republic as the heart of the city's new civic center preservation of the city's historic central areas

preservation of the city's historic central areas

Which one of the following was not a hallmark of urban landscape change during the Renaissance-Baroque Period of European history? city walls replaced with wide boulevards narrow, winding medieval streets replaced by wider and straighter thoroughfares opulent palaces and formal gardens laid out for the nobility skylines punctuated by belching smoke stacks

skylines punctuated by belching smoke stacks

Between the 1950s and the 1980s, cities of eastern Europe could be described as: socialist cities shaped by democratic regimes capitalist cities shaped by democratic regimes socialist cities shaped by Communist regimes capitalist cities shaped by Communist regimes

socialist cities shaped by Communist regimes

New towns in Europe have been relatively more successful than in the U.S. primarily because: the former were built mostly by the government and not for profit racial/class divisions are lacking in European society Europeans are more mobile and do not stay put long in one place Europeans have little interest in automobiles

the former were built mostly by the government and not for profit

In world cities like London and Paris, the most visible group of people on the streets of the CBD is: young professionals the immigrant population the urban underclass aging businessmen

young professionals