Chapter 13 Quiz

Under the bid rent theory

• areas easily accessile to the city center earn the highest rents

• the most physically attractive locations earn the highest rents

• landlords will accept bids for renting commerical real estate

• businesses look for the cheapest rents without caring about location

Residents of edge cities and suburban areas have long depended on automobiles and public transportation to access

• performing arts centers in large cities

• educational opportunities in large cities

• jobs in large cities

• family networks in large cities

A greenbelt policy encourages a city to curb the amount of construction on a city's edges to encourage growth in

• the city's suburbs

• the city's transportation networks

• the city's waterfront district

• the city's core

The concentric zone model demonstrates a way that urban residents were able to gradually move up economically and socially by allowing them

• to migrate progressively away from the work-class zone

• to migrate progressively away from the commuter zone

• to migrate progressively away from the transitional zone

• to migrate progressively away from the central business district

In Harris and Ullman's multiple-nuclei model, a city cpould be understood as lacking a central business district if

• similar industries were located in one large business park

• different industries were located in one large business park

• different industries were located throughout the city

• different industries were concentrated in one of the main city's suburbs

Many of today's emerging megacities, such as Rio de Janeiro and Guangzhou, are actually NOT one distinct city but

• a collection of highly populated religious centers

• multiple cities that have merged

• a collection of company towns set up by major industries

• a ring of commuter towns

The concentric zone model is portrayed as a series of rings, with the outermost ring being the

• central business district

• factory zone

• commuter zone

• zone of transition

Edge cities typically grow on the borders of large urban areas at points near

• electrical and nuclear power plants

• schools an universities

• major roads and airports

• navigable waterways

Public housing is typically defined as afforded housing offered to low-income urban residents by

• international organizations

• local, state, and federal agencies

• private corporations

• religious organizations

Job sprawl involves the migration of jobs out of the urban cores of cities and into

• entertainment complexes

• the outmost rings surrounding cities

• gated communities

• ports and waterways