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WorksheetsEconomic and Social Changes in Cities
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
A process by which banks designate an area within which they refuse to lend money for improvements to housing is:
a)
blockbusting.
b)
gentrification.
c)
filtering.
d)
redlining.
2.
A process by which real estate agents convince white homeowners to tell their houses out of fear of an influx of minority residents is:
a)
blockbusting.
b)
gentrification.
c)
filtering.
d)
redlining.
3.
A process of converting a neighborhood from low-income to middle-class is through renovation projects is:
a)
blockbusting.
b)
filtering.
c)
gentrification.
d)
redlining.
4.
City governments can prevent suburban sprawl by designating areas of mandatory open space called:
a)
dormitory suburbs.
b)
public housing.
c)
greenbelts.
d)
squatter settlements.
5.
A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities is achieved through:
a)
blockbusting.
b)
filtering.
c)
zoning ordinances.
d)
busing.
6.
The largest percentage of the U.S. population lives in:
a)
central cities.
b)
non-metropolitan areas.
c)
rural settlements.
d)
suburbs.
7.
The U.S. government has encouraged the use of cars in part by:
a)
charging high gasoline taxes.
b)
constructing new subway networks.
c)
building interstate highways.
d)
tax credits for automobile owners.
8.
During the segregation era in the US realtors, financial lenders, and city governments defined and segregated spaces in urban environments. This practice is known as...
a)
Redlining
b)
Blockbusting
c)
Commercialization
d)
Gentrification
9.
To counter urban sprawl, a group of architects, urban planners, and developers (now numbering over 2000 in more than 20 countries) proposed an urban design vision they call what....
a)
New Urbanism
b)
Suburbanization
c)
Urban Sprawl
d)
McMansions
10.
Communities that have lost access to healthy foods due to grocery store closings have become?
a)
food deserts
b)
redlined
c)
block busted
d)
gentrified
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