AP HUG: U6: Urban Practice

Which generalization does the chart above support?

• Each new form of transportation technology slowed urban growth by leading to urbanization, reurbanization, and exurbanization

• Some new forms of transportation technology slowed urban growth in peripheral countries and other factors slowed it down

• Each new form of transportation technology spurred urban growth by allowing more people to live and work in the central city

• Each new form of transportation technology spurred urban growth by producing a new system of moving people and good

• Some new forms of transportation technology spurred urban growth and other factors slowed it down

Which phrase best describes the urban central business district (CBD) shown in the photograph

• European CBD that mixes low-rise historic buildings with new skyscrapers

• Latin America CBD that mixes traditional markets with modern high-rises

• European suburban CBD with high-rise residential buildings and high population

• African colonial CBD with broad avenues, large homes, and administrative centers

• North American CBD near the city's center, offering commercial space, parking, and transportation

Which urban model would best describe a city that includes edge cities along its beltways?

• Galactic City Model

• Concentric Zone

• Multiple-nuclei

• Sector

• Griffin-Ford

Answer explanation

In the Galactic City Model, improved transportation leads to the building of nodes that mimic the city-center. Mini towns are build that can grow large enough to be considered edge cities

Why do many African cities contain multiple commercial districts?

• Colonial central business districts emerged separately from the traditional commercial centers

• Africans were traditionally not allowed to use the central business districts used by Europeans

• African governments promoted multiple central business districts through urban planning

• One central business district is not enough to serve Africa's fast-growing urban population

• Locations of Africa's business districts were poorly chosen, requiring multiple downtowns.

Which of the following represents a key difference between European cities and North American cities?

• European cities do not have suburbs

• North American suburbs have a higher population density

• European CBDs are less walkable thatn North Americn CBDs

• Public Transportaion is better developed to serve North American cities

• European suburbs are more ethnically diverse.

Answer explanation

European cities tend to be older and have less opportunity to expand into suburbs as North American cities have.

T wide, tree-lined avenues, tall office buildings, and mansions of Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, illustrate what feature of many large Latin American cities?

• Disamenity zone

• Periférico

• Favelas

• Commercial Spine

• Zone in Transition

Which best explains why European central business districts have largely resisted the construction of skyscrapers and the resulting impressive skylines that typify American cities?

• Competition for valuable commercial space is not as keen in European Cities as it is in the U.S.

• European culture prefers lower buildings and has negative attitudes toward commercialism and skyscrapers

• The centers of European cities contain many historically significant buildings that leaders choose to preserve

• The European Union regulates the height of buildings and has forbidden tall buildings for safety concerns

• European cities tend to have stronger mass transit systems, so people do not need to be as concentrated in CBDs

Which generalizations comparing the use of urban transportation systems in four cities does the table support?

• People in no country have placed much importance on urban public transportation

• Europeans and Asians have placed much importance on public transportation

• People in the United States have placed more importance on urban public transportation than have Europeans and Asians

• European and Asian urban transportation systems serve a higher proportion of residents than do systems in the United States.

• European and Asian urban transportation systems meet the needs of residents, but systems in the United States fail to do so

Based on current and historical conditions, which would be most likely to help alleviate the problem of food deserts.

• Encouraging food trucks that are part of the informal economy to serve food deserts

• Encouraging gentrification and building upscale housing in poor neighborhoods

• Establishing new farmers markets in the suburban and exurban communities

• Opening upscale food stores in neighborhoods that have already gentrified

• Opening supermarkets in inner city neighborhoods that have poor public transportation

Which has been a partially effective response to the problems of public housing?

• Gentrification, because it creates a safer and more diverse community

• Scattered-site housing, because it places families in safer areas with better schools

• Redlining, because it limits bad housing investments in the inner city

• Eminent domain, because it allows government to gain vast urban lands to develop

• Blockbusting, because if makes affordable housing more available