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Question 1:

Barrie Greenbie distinguished between proxemic and distemic spaces. An example of a proxemic space is ________.
a) the neighbourhood
b) the road
c) the market
d) the town centre
e) All of the above.

Question 2:

The value of housing is determined by ________.
a) its spatial relationship with other land uses
b) the amount of activity space it contains
c) the social characteristics of the area within which it is located
d) the number of roads located nearby
e) Both a and c.

Question 3:

Filtering is ________.
a) a spatially discriminatory practice that financial institutions use to identify which areas of the city are financially high-risk
b) the process by which housing units go from being occupied by members of one income group to members of another income group
c) the discrepancy between needs and environmental circumstances
d) the process by which poverty and deprivation are transmitted (or “filtered”) through the generations
e) the process used by companies with retailing activities to determine where such activities ought to take place within a given area

Question 4:

The name for a formal region inside a city that displays some degree of homogeneity in housing, income, and/or ethnic identity is called a ________.
a) town
b) neighbourhood
c) suburb
d) slum
e) borough

Question 5:

Gentrification is ________.
a) the increase of identity politics in a neighbourhood
b) the process of people moving in and transforming low-quality housing
c) a lowering of infant mortality rates in a neighbourhood
d) the process of relocation of industrial land uses to near residential areas
e) the process of separation of urban spaces into areas serving different group interests

Question 6:

Explanations of poverty include ________.
a) cycles of poverty that make poverty the normal living circumstance for people
b) personal characteristics that limit coping and caring abilities in individuals
c) structural class conflict, which arises when wealth is concentrated among a few people
d) uneven distribution of control over access to urban resources
e) All of the above.

Question 7:

The factors that affect retail location include ________.
a) whether the area around the location can sustain the retailing activity in question
b) whether the location intercepts travel between employment and residence locations
c) whether the location is immediately adjacent to direct competitors
d) whether the location is immediately adjacent to other retailers
e) All of the above.

Question 8:

Developers initiate consumer trends through ________.
a) store formats
b) store locations
c) specialized infrastructure
d) spatial markets
e) brand names, marketing, and advertising

Question 9:

A city covered in your book that experienced an unprecedented demographic collapse between 2000 and 2010 is ________.
a) Lagos, Nigeria
b) Accra, Ghana
c) Chonqing, China
d) Vancouver, British Columbia
e) Detroit, Michigan

Question 10:

A squatter settlement is defined as ________.
a) temporary living-space established by a nomadic community
b) a concentration of temporary dwellings neither owned nor rented
c) low-income housing in the centre of a city
d) a community inhabited entirely by homeless individuals
e) a community that has been forcibly relocated by local government

Higher Education

Human Geography 8e: Chapter 13