Exam 19: Urbanization, population, and The Environment

The rate that is calculated by subtracting the number of deaths per thousand from the number of births per thousand in a year reflects:

Urban growth in less developed regions is high because of:

As noted in the introductory section of this chapter,sociologists ask two general questions about city life: "Is social life in cities distinctive from social life outside cities?" and "How much is urban life influenced by larger social forces?" On the basis of your reading of the chapter,how would you respond to these two questions?

According to Manuel Castells,cities are places for the poor and underprivileged to come together to work for social change.

federal programs funded almost half of suburban housing built in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.

Sustainable development encourages people to reuse and recycle depleting resources so that levels of pollution are kept at a minimum.

At the beginning of the twentieth century,fewer than one in seven people lived in cities.In 2008,the number of people living in cities _______________ the number of people living in rural areas.

The term meaning "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" that originated in the Brundtland Commission report (also known by the title Our Common future)is:

Cities such as New York and Tokyo where the coordination of global business activity takes place are:

Industrialization generated the movement of population from the countryside into towns and cities,which is known as:

Mike Davis's (1990)study of Los Angeles noted a conscious hardening of the city surface against the poor.Of the following,the one that is NOT an example of this is the:

Discuss the approaches to understanding urbanism developed by the Chicago School.How have contributions by new researchers,such as Jane Jacobs,David Harvey,and Manuel Castells,added to or replaced the earlier views of Robert Park,Ernest Burgess,and Louis Wirth?

A cluster of cities and towns forming a continuous network is called:

Of the following attributes,the one NOT currently associated with rural America is a:

In modern societies,most of the population lives:

Louis Wirth identified the "urban interaction problem" as the necessity for city dwellers to respect social boundaries when many people are in close proximity all the time.An example of this is:

According to the text,minorities move to the suburbs for the same reasons that other people do,such as to have better schools and less crime.According to the chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority,urbanization:

Urban ecology failed to account for social processes,such as racial discrimination and segregation,in the development of cities.

As an important factor in urban development,Manuel Castells emphasized the struggles of underprivileged groups participating in the process of:

Demography is: