Cities and Urban Land Use Section 6

Patterns of ethnic clustering within metropolitan areas is determined by residential choice and

• access to high paying jobs

• partly by discrimination

• all are dispersed immigrants

• economic benefits of being a minority

Banks that loaned house buyers money clearly identified risky neighborhoods by creating _______________ on the map.

• red lines (redlining)

• green lines (greenlining)

• blockbusting

• infrastructure

Airports, roads, docks, railways, taxis, and intracity transit systems are all examples of a cities

• primary sector

• secondary sector

• infrastructure

• environmental determinism

Banks, post offices, hotels, cable networks, television and radio stations and communication companies are all examples of

• economic infrastructure

• transportation infrastructure

• government institutions

• primary sector

Ghettos in northern and southern cities in the USA have been in place since before (use each war as the earliest possible time frame)

• Civil War

• WWI

• WWII

• Korean War

What did the United States do to encouraged car ownership?

• lowered automobile cost

• publicly supported electronic vehicles

• blocked car manufactures from outside the US.

• funded road building

US commuters in 2015 spend about _______________ hours a year stuck in traffic jams.

• 12

• 22

• 32

• 42

What is one way most Americans can lessen the amount of pollutions in their atmosphere?

• Use public transportation

• buy SUVs instead of cars

• create highways through rural areas

• move commuter zones into city centers

Which US city does NOT have well- established (high rider participation ) public transportation systems?

• Chicago

• Boston

• New York City

• Brownsville

Some real estate agents used scare tactics to get white neighbors to sell. This is an example of

• redlining

• greenlining

• blockbusting

• ghettoization