Additional Qs to the bank

2. Which of the following countries is least urbanized?
a) the United States
b) Australia
c) Japan
d) China

1. The layout of a city, the physical form and structure, is referred to as
a) urban morphology.
b) urban grid.
c) city plan.
d) urban street pattern.


5. Where did the first urban development originate?
a) Southeast Asia
b) Southwest Asia
c) North Africa
d) Western Europe

7. Ancient towns and cites owed much of their success and growth to certain site advantages. Which of the following was not one of these advantages?
a) proximity to productive farmlands
b) good supplies of coal and iron
c) availability of water supplies
d) good defensibility

17. The relative location of a city refers to its
a) site.
b) situation.
c) genealogy of development.
d) approximate latitude and longitude.


20. In a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city, town or village is inversely proportional to its rank in the system (i.e. if the largest city is 4 million the second will be 2 million or 1/2 , the third will be 1/3 and so on). This is known as
a) central place theory.
b) rank-size rule.
c) trade area ordering.
d) a statistical coincidence.

21. A hinterland reveals the _________ of each settlement.
a) total population
b) working population
c) economic reach
d) aggregate purchasing power

26. The multiple nuclei model of urban structure developed by Harris and Ullman arose from the idea that _______ was losing its dominant position in the metropolitan city.
a) the CBD
b) the inner city
c) public transportation
d) the suburb

29. After 1970, new suburban downtowns (edge cities) were spawned in the outer city of Los Angeles, with their leading concentrations
a) near key freeway intersections.
b) along the coast.
c) near hubs of public transportation.
d) at the approaches to key bridges.


31. In Latin America, which of the following does not accurately describe the typical CBD?
a) the primary business focus
b) principal entertainment center
c) main area of employment
d) an area of out-migration to suburbs

32. In the Latin American city, where are the homes of the most impoverished and unskilled residents?
a) in the city center
b) immediately surrounding the city center
c) on the outermost zone or peripheral fringe
d) along the major access highways

33. A structural element of many Latin American cities, the disamenity sector, is illustrated by the
a) mall.
b) barrios or favelas.
c) commercial spine.
d) industrial park.

34. Which of the following is both the least urbanized and the most rapidly urbanizing realm of the world?
a) Middle America
b) Africa south of the Sahara
c) East Asia
d) South Asia

36. The focal point of the Southeast Asian city is the
a) old colonial port zone.
b) CBD.
c) alien commercial zone.
d) suburbs.

37. In Southeast Asian cities the alien commercial zone is dominated by
a) American corporations.
b) Europeans.
c) Chinese.
d) Lebanese traders.

38. Comparing Luanda, Angola to a suburb of Tokyo one is struck by the fact that the urban morphology reflects the fact that Angola lacks a __________ class.
a) working
b) middle
c) leadership
d) lower

40. If cities in the poorer parts of the world share a common characteristic, it may result from
a) an absence of enforced zoning regulations.
b) a total lack of industry.
c) acute water shortages.
d) poor public transportation.

47. Ethnic neighborhoods in European cities reflect migrants from
a) Eastern Europe.
b) poor Mediterranean Europe.
c) former colonies.
d) Latin America.