Undocumented immigrants are being deported at an increasing rate.
True
The meaning of being white has depended on identifying another as black.
True
Greenfield development results from a change in land use where areas that were once considered rural become part of the metropolitan area.
True
In which US Census were Americans first able to designate themselves as belonging to more than one racial or ethnic group or as biracial.
2000
Which area is not part of the metropolitan region?
Exurbs
What exacerbated the Great Recession of 2008-2012?
House Foreclosure Crisis
Adoption of the McCormick reaper across the upper Midwest in the mid-19th century fueled agricultural production.
True
What public policy has most contributed to the development of the suburbs?
National Highway System
The population moving from the inner to out concentric rings is known as:
White Flight
Suburbs are low-density, single family, residential areas built between 1950-1969.
False
Race is a concept that is socially constructed.
True
The American city was, from its beginning, multicultural.
True
I (Prof. Long) have lived in which city?
Boston
Growth from 1950 to 2010 was rapid — the global population nearly tripled, and the U.S. population doubled.
True
The movement of African Americans from the South to the Northeast and Midwest is known as:
The Great Migration
What did not contribute to the development of cities?
Good Housing Supply.
Suburb describes fast-growing areas in the urban hinterland, beyond the outer suburban rings.
False
Which is true of the “urban enclave”?
all of the above
There was a growth of cities along the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes basin as grain was shipped to coastal ports and then the world.
True
The legal segregation faced by African Americans was very much the same as faced by other immigrants.
True
The economic gap between inner & outer ring suburbs is decreasing.
False
Inner ring suburbs are increasingly vulnerable to economic decline.
True
There is not currently a stark difference between central cities & inner ring suburbs.
True
What are the components of the Cuban Ethnic Enclave?
All of the Above
In the Cuban enclave, workers strive to make enough money to enable themselves and their families to move out of the enclave
False
What has contributed to the recent redevelopment of cities?
Coolness Factor
At the turn of the twentieth century, most new immigrants to the US began by living in rural areas because it was more similar to where they came from.
False
What do inner ring suburbs and central cities have in common?
access to centers and sub-centers in the metro area
There is an invisibility of Blackness in the US.
False
The choice to live in a place where there are higher resources and fewer needs is not an absolute for African Americans.
True
What is a primary challenge to poverty?
Access to adequate resources to provide a decent standard of living
Social welfare programs are the cause of poverty.
False
Apartheid was the same in the US as in South Africa.
False
Poverty is relatively high throughout America.
False
Race, cutlure and poverty are the same in urban areas.
False
US poverty lines vary depending on family size.
True
It is legal for men and women doing the same job to be paid different wages.
False
The invisibility of whiteness means that one does not have to notice that one is white.
True
Income and wealth are synonyms.
False
Little Havana is the name of the Cuban Ethnic Enclave in Los Angeles.
False
Affirmative Action contributes to the culture of poverty.
False
Urban problems are the fault of the urban poor.
False
Levittown was the first truly mass-produced suburb and is widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country.
TRue
Levittown was:
located in NY, PA, Puerto Rico, as well as other places.
a planned community
a truly massed produced community
the archetype for post WWII suburbia.
The rate of immigration to the US has been consistent for the last 100 years.
False
Race is dependent on skin color, hair color, and eye color.
False
What was not a result of redlining?
White Flight
Mellody Hobson, in her Ted Talk, suggests people become color blind.
False
Which of the following is a correct reference listing in APA style? (BTW – no this is not a real book!)
Long, M.F. (2017). Legacy Cities. Cleveland, OH: CSU Press.
Children who grow up in poverty have greater challenges with their health and education than children who do not.
True
What is a tactic of predatory lending?
Repeated refinancing that strips the borrower’s equity
As of 2016 the wage gap between Blacks and Whites is increasing.
True
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of NYC, call what is happening there a “Tale of Two Cities”.
True
What is the outermost section of the Urban Concentric Rings?
Outer ring suburbs
The suburbs and the hinterland are two parts of a “metropolitan” region.
False
Which is the largest US generation?
Millennials
What is not a way that segregation holds us all down?
Decreases the number of food deserts
How is white poverty the same as black poverty?
Access to social welfare programs
African Americans and other ethnic minorities are disproportionately poorer compared to white Americans.
True
Suburbs drained the resources of the inner city.
True
The Hmong’s people’s migration to the US was similar to other Asian migration.
False
So many people are talking about segregation that the issue will soon be solved in the US.
False
What has contributed to the redevelopment of legacy cities, like Cleveland and Pittsburgh?
Gentrification
The wealthy and the poor, nearly always, have lived in separate parts of the city.
False
What is not a secondary challenge of poverty?
Access to good neighbors
What is not gentrification?
An increase in affordable housing
According to john. a. powell, race is socially constructed therefore it is easy to abolish.
False
Which is a distinct characteristic of the “Cuban Ethnic Enclave” described in the book?
Success for Cuban immigrants
Which is not a neighborhood type described in book?
Urban
Urban Studies is “multidisciplinary”.
True
What do we know about segregation?
Hardly anyone talks about segregation anymore
By what decade did the post-WWII economic expansion end.
1970
Up to half of children in the US live at or below the poverty line.
True
Habitual poverty causes?
Persistent housing segregation
Gentrification has both positive and negative impacts on neighborhoods.
True
Which was not a reason for the foreclosure crisis to happen?
Increased government regulations
Which of the following is APA style?
In text citations (author’s name, date, page #)
Which of the following citations is in correct APA style?
“UST 302 is an informative and useful class. The goal is to familiarize students with the lifecycle of urban areas” (Long 2017).
The change in racial or ethnic composition of a neighborhood or community, where it reaches some threshold amount of “other” that becomes an intolerable area is known as
Tipping
How many US Senators are there?
100
There are technological and architectural reasons for the decline of cities.
True
A Poll Tax is a fee charged to all voters to allow them to vote.
False
The dramatic shift in neighborhood composition toward residents with higher levels of educational achievements and income is one definition for:
Gentrification
There are no legal ways to change the state or federal constitutions.
False
Levittown, in its creation, did not allow minorities to live in those communities.
True
Subprime mortgage market supplies low-interest rate loans to borrowers with good credit scores.
False
Levittowns used redlining in its housing sales.
True
What is a cause of poverty in urban areas?
Decline in Manufacturing
Strict government regulations was a cause of the 2007 Housing Crisis.
False
The Policy Stages Model contains which of the following?
Define the problem in need of a solution
Formulating the new policy
Deciding to move forward with the policy
Modifying policy
African Americans were given the right to vote in 1965.
False
Self-Segregation is the main cause of segregation in general.
False
Women property owners were always allowed to vote in the USA.
False
Public policy cannot contribute to urban decline
False
Inflated housing prices was a cause of the 2007 housing crisis.
True
Predatory lending was one of the causes of the 2007 housing crisis.
True
Urban Governance is the enabling environment that requires adequate legal frameworks, processes to enable the local government response to the needs of citizens.
True
Jim Crow were Federal laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.
False
Levittowns were created to address the housing needs after WWII.
True
African Americans were given the right to vote in the USA in 1870
True
The Department of Justice (DOJ) found Ferguson, MO responded quickly to citizen complaints regarding the police department.
False
Education level shapes life opportunities.
True
Which of the following are challenges to public education?
The decrease in the tax base of many urban areas.
Long held racial segregation.
An increase in gang activity.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) found a focus on generating revenue through ticketing and fees in Ferguson, MO.
True
The Kerner Commission found that the nation was moving toward two societies: 1 white and 1 black, separate and unequal.
True
African Americans were given the right to vote in the USA in 1870.
True
Urban Governance is characterized by which of the following?
Multi-scale
Democratic
Inclusive
The Department of Justice (DOJ) found police officers saw African American residents as offenders and revenue sources in Ferguson, MO.
True
The Department of Justice (DOJ) found police officer promotion and evaluation was based on having and promoting good relations with the community in Ferguson, MO.
False
The characteristics of the environment shape human health.
True
Student achievement is only: bound up with the expectations parents have for students and is bound up with how those expectations are operationalized by parent’s participation
False
What are the impacts of sprawl on the environment?
a loss in greenspace
What is a supportive factor for urban health?
Living in a strong non-exploitive community
The Internet is the tool that allows citizen participation to be equally accessed.
False
Federal laws against segregation actually caused a concentration of minorities and students from poor families in urban schools.
True
There were riots in American cities and on college campuses regarding racial issues in the 1950’s.
False
Socioeconomic factos that affect regular schools similar affect charter schools.
True
The federal laws against segregation have made schools in the US equal.
False
Home lives have little affect on school skills
False
The Kerner Commission found that the nation was moving toward two societies: 1 white and 1 black, separate and unequal.
True
The process of poorer families moving into older homes originally built for higher-income households because of slow decay of the housing stock had encouraged higher income households to move away is know as
Filtering
Ethnography is the systematic study of people and cultures.
True
Human Health is the degree to which our bodies are capable of resisting disease and our minds capable of resisting psychological well-being.
True
Urban Governance is the enabling environment that requires adequate legal frameworks, efficient political, managerial and administrative processes to enable the local government response to the needs of citizens.
True
Those who have interest in a policy are called what?
Stakeholder
Public Education is:
The mechanism through which society offers every citizen a chance at the American Dream.
Students learn to be citizens.
Students learn to participate in civil life.
What is a threat to health over time?
Industry
Millinieals get most of their news from which source?
Social Media
US Desegregation Laws were:
The beginning of the concentration in poor and minority students in urban schools
The Superfund is a trust created by a tax on generating industries for use by the EPA to clean up hazardous waste sites.
True
By population, the US is the third largest country in the world.
True
Which of the following is NOT an impact of environmental stress?
Chickenpox
Education level shapes life opportunities.
True
Overexposure to media may cause health problems.
True
Charter Schools are seen as a means to revitalize schooling by offering educators and families a chance to abandon burdensome district bureaucracy and uncaring teachers to form safe, small-scale, innovative schools responsive to the needs of specific communities of learners.
True
The US Department of Agriculture recommends the “food pyramid” with the majority of nutrition coming from bread, potatoes etc.
True
What are remedies to the factors that threaten urban health?
Planning
When European settlers arrived in the US, a lot of diseases greatly impacted Native Americans, but now the diseases Native Americans get are no more prevalent than other Americans.
False
Charter schools are a panacea to replace dysfunctional regular schools if the charters do not have the resources to meet all their student’s needs
False
What are forms of capital in the modern economy
Natural
Human
Financial
Manufactured
There are no LEED green buildings on the CSU campus.
False
The Internet is the tool that allows citizen participation to be equally accessed.
False
The media can have health impacts.
True
By population, India is the largest country on Earth.
False
A sustainable social practice is to build economic security and diversity.
True
Regular people in the US can get news in a fraction of seconds. The distance is not at all a barrier now.
True