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True or false
1 point
True or false: Urbanization refers only to the physical expansion of a city.
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20 questions
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A municipality contains both a dense town center and rural land. Many residents also commute to jobs and services in nearby municipalities. Which concept best captures the area connected by these everyday activities?
- A
The municipality, because its administrative border defines the full urban area
- B
The functional city, because it includes connected places where people live, work, travel, and use services
- C
The area inside the densest neighborhood, because density alone defines a city
- D
The rural land inside the municipality, because all municipal land is functionally urban
03
True or false
1 point
True or false: Because density brings people close together, it guarantees equal access to opportunities and strong social connections.
- A
True
- B
False
04
Fill in the blank
1 point
Residents in different neighborhoods have sharply unequal access to jobs and services. This pattern is called .
05
Written response
1 point
A city’s social groups are separated across different neighborhoods. What is this pattern called? Enter the term.
06
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1 point
Several firms locate near one another and can more easily find workers and suppliers. What concept best explains this advantage?
- A
A decline in economic activity caused by competition among nearby firms
- B
The separation of social groups into different neighborhoods
- C
Advantages that arise when people and organizations locate near one another
- D
The process of extending a municipality’s administrative boundaries
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Fill in the blank
1 point
Coordinating land use, development, transport, and public facilities over time is called .
08
True or false
1 point
True or false: A local government may plan streets and regulate development while still sharing authority and responsibilities with regional and national governments.
- A
True
- B
False
09
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1 point
Residents of a neighborhood have little opportunity to influence a zoning decision that affects their homes. Which question is most central to an urban-politics analysis of this situation?
- A
Whether the neighborhood has a high enough population density
- B
How nearby firms share workers and suppliers
- C
Whether the neighborhood lies within a single municipality
- D
Whose needs are prioritized and who can influence the zoning decision
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Written response
1 point
A researcher examines how people, land, infrastructure, governance, and environmental conditions connect, including how a shock might affect several of them. What approach is the researcher using? Enter the name of the approach.
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Choose one
1 point
A researcher wants to know whether a housing policy has had similar effects in cities with different histories and at different times. Which approach is best suited to this question?
- A
Assume that a policy successful in one city will work the same way everywhere
- B
Compare how cities in different places and periods have responded to similar challenges
- C
Study only the current labor market in one city
- D
Measure the density of a single neighborhood without considering other places or periods
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Choose all
1 point
A city’s concentration of firms and workers creates benefits from proximity. Which challenges can offset some of those benefits? Select all that apply.
- A
Congestion
- B
Pollution
- C
High housing costs
- D
Uneven access to employment
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Choose all
1 point
A research team is assessing a proposed transit project and wants to understand both its intended benefits and possible unintended consequences. Which investigations would contribute to that assessment? Select all that apply.
- A
Map how access to jobs may change
- B
Examine who pays for the project
- C
Assess likely effects on rents and travel
- D
Investigate whose input shaped the route
14
Open ended
1 point
A city designates land for new housing and wants affordable homes that connect residents with jobs and services. Explain how the city could coordinate planning and policies to pursue these goals, and describe one way housing location or affordability can affect residents.
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1 point
Why should a comparison of urban places specify how “urban” is measured?
- A
Because different measures of “urban” can identify different territories, so comparisons need a stated basis.
- B
Because urban places are defined by population size alone, regardless of other measures.
- C
Because administrative boundaries always match the areas where people live, work, and use services.
- D
Because stating a definition guarantees that cities have equal access to resources and opportunities.
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1 point
A town's population grows, its residents take up different kinds of work, and its land use and infrastructure change. Which statement best explains why these developments can all be part of urbanization?
- A
Urbanization, because it means only an increase in the number of city residents
- B
Urbanization, because it refers only to the outward physical expansion of built-up land
- C
Urbanization, because it includes changes in population, settlements, economies, and ways of life
- D
Urbanization, because it occurs only when a place receives a new administrative boundary
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1 point
A city proposes new housing in an area with limited transport and utility connections. Which planning insight best explains why these conditions should be considered together?
- A
Housing development depends on transport and utilities, and infrastructure design can affect health and mobility
- B
Housing, transport, and utilities can be planned independently because their effects do not overlap
- C
Infrastructure matters only after housing is built, since it does not shape where development occurs
- D
Transport and utilities affect city finances but have no significant effects on residents' daily lives
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1 point
A researcher wants to know whether a housing policy that worked in one city and decade would also work in a different city today. Which approach most directly helps avoid assuming that one city's experience applies everywhere?
- A
Social and spatial analysis, because it focuses only on mapping neighborhood populations
- B
Systems analysis, because it studies how urban systems respond to shocks
- C
Comparative and historical analysis, because it tests whether patterns vary across places and periods
- D
Economic analysis, because it evaluates labor and housing markets
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Written response
1 point
What urban-studies term describes unequal access to resources and opportunities across urban space? Enter the term.
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Written response
1 point
What plural term describes advantages that arise when people and organizations locate near one another? Enter the term.