What capital city is sometimes referred to as a 'Tropical Manhattan' or a 'Singapore for Central America'? Shopping malls are to lifestyle centers as:Īnchor department stores are to specialty shops It is responsible for 20% of the United States’ Gross Domestic Product. It is where 1 out of every 6 Americans live. Which one of the following describes the political status of language in Montreal?įrench is the language of government, commerce, and education. With respect to language, the Ottawa city region is: What would you be least likely to find in the scores of 'edge cities' which have materialized on the fringes of major metropolitan areas?Ĭities increasingly function as nodes of the global economy Immigrants to Washington, D.C., are likely to reside in:Ĭhicago, Detroit, and Cleveland rose to prominence during what era of urban history? WRONG: making it impossible for artists to find affordable space to work' cities, but they have also been criticized for all of the following except: Self-contained urban villages and business improvement districts have been successful in U.S. Hyperdiverse immigrant cities in the United States and Canada are characterized by:īoth the celebration and contestation of cultural differences. Which one of the following continents does not now have one of the world’s five most populous urban agglomerations? What industry transformed the following cities: Adelaide, Australia Tolliati, Russia Turin, Italy Detroit, USA? Which one of the following would be categorized as an urban environmental risk at the local scale with a short-term impact? What theory accounts for the regularities of size and spacing of cities as market centers?Ĭomprehensively planned to be as self-contained as possible Large cities are fewer in number and farther apart than medium-sized cities medium-sized cites are fewer in number and farther apart than small cities. Regardless of how large a settlement is, it does not become truly urban until:

'Loci of national sovereignty with landscapes that are charged with the symbols of solidarity (real or imagined) and museums that are the attics of the nation.' To what category of cities does this description apply? Which one of the following terms is best used to refer to 'a city and its suburbs'?

A trip to Taipei, Taiwan, to study the Matsu parade would make an appropriate chapter for a book on the:

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