Urban Problems - Chapter 7 - Critical Urban Theory

"New urban sociology" emphasizes geography or technology.

• True
• False

Choose an indication that traditional urban ecology and economic models were inadequate (clear by the end of the 1960s).

• Declined in industrial jobs
• Growing financial problems of cities
• Increased migration to suburbs and Sunbelt cities
• Erosion of banks of river-centric economic hubs

Which was NOT asserted by scholars questioning the notion that cities emerge and evolve as "natural processes."

• Cities exist within larger influencing political structures
• Local economies operate interdependently in larger networks
• Economic institutions such as banks, MNCs, and governments shape urban life
• Density inherently draws in additional residents for urban growth

Henri Lefebvre believed in two circuits of capital: production factors and real estate investments.

• True
• False

Lefebvre also believed that space is socially constructed, but that large governments and business fail to recognize it.

• True
• False

A recent dominant land-use pattern has been transformation of public space into packaged, thematic environments.

• True
• False

Manuel Castells argued that welfare programs in effect extend capitalism and create new urban struggles.

• True
• False

Globalization often does so by helping ordinary people and corporations and stockholders per Logan and Molotoch.

• True
• False

The 1980s and 1990s were a time of low-skill entry-level jobs INCREASING and highly educated demand DECREASING.

• True
• False

Cities occupy a world urban hierarchy per the world-system perspective.

• True
• False