APHG Ch. 9.4-9.5 DeBlij

Ethnic neighborhoods in European cities reflect migrants from

• Eastern Europe.

• poor Mediterranean Europe.

• former colonies.

• Latin America.

The growth of ethnic neighborhoods in _________ is less than in other European countries.

• the Netherlands

• Belgium

• Germany

• France

Housing in the slum area, Kiberia in Nairobi, Kenya is occupied by Luo and Luhya peoples of western and northwestern Kenya and is owned by

• British landlords.

• Indian merchants.

• Nairobi’s public housing agency.

• Nubians of Sudanese descent.

New York’s Times Square and Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz are examples of giant media reshaping cities into

• disamenity zones

• McMansions.

• planned communities.

• spaces of consumption.

Tysons Corner, Virginia is an example of

• the concentric zone model.

• an edge city.

• a megacity.

• a commercial port.

are unplanned developments of crude shelters that often develop around cities.

• Shantytowns

• Suburbs

• Gentrifications

• Megacities

The is the part of the economy that is not taxed and is not counted toward a country’s gross national income.

• disamentity sector

• primary sector

• formal economy

• informal economy

function at the global scale, beyond the reach of state borders, functioning as the service centers of the world economy.

• Airports

• Multinational corporations

• World cities

• Kingdoms

Spaces of consumption

• did not exist until the 21^st Century.

• are designed to alleviate poverty.

• are designed to slow economic growth.

• represent a fusion of urban, economic, and political geographies.

Which of the following are the dominant cities in terms of their role in the global political economy? These are not the world's biggest cities in terms of population or industrial output. Instead these are centers of strategic control of the world economy.

• globalization

• commercialization

• inner city

• world cities