Cities Final (Southeast Asia)
If you were visiting Indonesia, what would you go to Borobudur to see?
a temple
Metro Manila includes Quezon City, where you would find:
all of the above
The influence of Chinese migrants on Southeast Asian cities has been most pronounced:
around the South China Sea
The socialist model of urban development, as practiced in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, includes all of the following stages except:
avoidance of globalization
The capital cities of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand are also:
the most populous cities in Southeast Asia
How many of the following factors play almost no role in the growth of Singapore's urban population? Reclassification Natural Increase Internal Migration
two
In the first decade of the 21st century, the leaders of what country relocated its national capital to the town of Pyinmana where they built a new seat of government named Naypyidaw?
Myanmar (Burma)
Manila is to Spain as Jakarta is to:
Netherlands (Holland)
The premier passage through the island‑studded seas of Southeast Asia is the Strait of Malacca. In what country is the city that dominates that strait today?
Republic of Singapore
A multinational firm would be least likely to choose which one of these cities for labor-intensive product assembly and packaging?
Singapore
What city serves as Southeast Asia's leading port and industrial center; as its leading banking and commercial center; and as a key player in the global economic system?
Singapore
What countries of Southeast Asia have the highest levels of urban primacy?
Thailand and the Philippines
Because both India and Malaysia were part of the British Empire in the 1800s, the British brought many Tamils to Kuala Lumpur. What has happened to their Bricktown neighborhood?
it has been gentrified, but still exudes a strong Indian sense of place
Which one of the following is not true of Southeast Asia's growing middle class?
it has resisted suburbanization
Water for a thirsty Singapore comes from all of the following except:
lakes and rivers
In McGee's original model of city structure, what land use tends to occupy the periphery of Southeast Asian cities?
market gardening zone
The Chinese in Southeast Asia:
migrated to the region primarily during colonial times
Binondo is the heart of Chinatown, Tondo is a densely-populated and impoverished district, Emita is a fishing village-cum-tourist enclave, and Makati is a district of expensive suburban housing. These locations within Manila are evidence of the:
multiple nuclei model of urban land use
Why was the geographical name Jabotapek coined in the late 20th century?
Because Jakarta had grown and sprawled far across its hinterland
The famous Angkor Wat is one of hundreds of wats in what Southeast Asia country?
Cambodia
Which one of the following is not true of Southeast Asia's geographic pattern of urbanization?
Cambodia is one of the most urbanized countries
Approximately 75% of Singapore's population is:
Chinese
A mix of religions characterizes Southeast Asia. What religion dominates Manila, Jakarta, and Bangkok, respectively?
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism
Which one of the following is not true of the Mekong Delta's Oc Eo?
It was located in present-day Indonesia
The Petronas Twin Towers, symbol of the competition to have the tallest building in the world, is located in:
Kuala Lumpur
Housing shortages in Manila are exacerbated by land scarcity. Which one of the following is evidence of artificial land scarcity?
Large tracts of vacant land in the central city
Singapore's EMR takes the form of an "expanding city-state" which now stretches well into the territory of:
Malaysia and Indonesia
The new high-technology city of Cyberjaya anchors what country's Multimedia Super Corridor?
Malaysia's
What city evolved around the Intramuros and became the command and control center of the Spanish galleon trade which ranged between Mexico and Asia?
Manila
When laborers circulate seasonally between rural villages where they live and urban sites where they work, it is called:
circular migration
Cities in Vietnam, until recently, were devoid of mass advertising, had few cars on their roads, and offered only government-run hotels. These traits were typical of urban landscapes that:
conformed to socialist ideology
Which one of the following does not apply to Singapore?
development under French colonialism
Which one of the following applies to sacred cities rather than market cities in Southeast Asia?
expansive and productive rural hinterlands
Bangkok:
has been the focus of massive foreign investment since the Vietnam War
The central core of Manila has seen an increase in:
high-intensity commercial and office land use
In 1511, the era of European colonialism in Southeast Asia began with the arrival of a fleet from what country in Malacca's harbor?
portugal
Around Manila, many new suburban communities and mixed-use developments such as Nuvali, are engendering conflict because they:
require tenant farmers to move off land they have long occupied
Kuala Lumpur means "muddy confluence." The city is located at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers. This is a description of Kuala Lumpur's:
site
Many of the new developments on the outskirts of Manila are taking the place of former:
sugar cane plantations
McGee, in reference to Southeast Asia, coined the word desakota to describe the process by which:
territory near a metropolitan core is incorporated into the urban economy without the necessity for cityward migration
