Exam 15: Urbanization,population,and the Environment

According to David Harvey,cities as well as suburbs can be understood as __________ humans established to serve their needs.

The decline in jobs in the manufacturing industries in the urban United States corresponded to an increase in jobs in the:

Fertility rates are often much lower than fecundity rates because:

The most populous cities in the world include over 10 million inhabitants,but even more people may live in a cluster of cities and towns,forming a continuous network called:

According to one popular Web site,Global Footprint,seven planets would be required if all people on earth were to somehow achieve the standard of living of the average American.Given we only have one planet,what do you think will be required to make the transition from current processes of environmental degradation to sustainable development?

According to the ecological approach,the development of urban areas can be understood as similar to:

What is it meant by a geography of centrality and marginality in global cities?

According to sociologists who use __________,cities tend to develop in response to advantageous features of the environment-for example,on the shores of rivers,on fertile plains,and at the intersections of trading routes.

Urban ecology emphasizes the __________ of city areas,whereby the specialized groups on which people depend are located in the city centers.

The global population grew 49 percent from 1900 to 1950,and during the same period urbanization increased:

When Jorge first moved to Chicago from his small,rural town in California,he found it hard to meet new people.Back home in his small town,people often said hello to each other on the street,and he knew the name of most of the people who lived in his town.However,in Chicago people rarely made eye contact with him on the street.According to Louis Wirth,Jorge was experiencing:

Thomas Malthus was one of the original writers to show concern for population growth.Demographers,economists,politicians,sociologists,and others have continued to debate his ideas for more than 200 years,but many do not share his concern for the natural limits to population growth.Which of the following challenged Malthus's predictions?

Places such as New York and Tokyo are called __________ because they are the organizing centers of the new global economy.

When more affluent groups move back into cities and renovate dilapidated buildings and neighborhoods,the process is called:

Sandra lives in the heart of a large city.Lately,there have been several robberies on several of the streets near where Sandra lives but none on her street.Sandra and her neighbors believe that they have not seen any crime on their street because they know each other,notice when strangers or strange cars are in the neighborhood,and have a mix of old retired couples and young families who use the neighborhood at different times of the day.Jane Jacobs would see this as an example of:

Which of the following countries has a higher crude birth rate than the United States?

In modern societies,most of the population lives:

In October of 2011,the world population reached:

Mike Davis noted what he calls a "conscious hardening of the city surface against the poor" in his study of Los Angeles.Examples of this process are:

The __________ is the number of live births per year per thousand of the population.