Anthony Giddens • Sociology 6th edition

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Chapter 6 — Cities and Urban Life

1. Who wrote The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903)?
   a) Louise Wirth
   b) Robert Park
   c) Georg Simmel
   d) Max Weber
2. What was the Chicago School’s approach to the study of urban life called?
   a) urban reserve
   b) urban ecology
   c) urban economics
   d) urban sociology
3. In which year did the urban areas of the world become more populous than rural areas?
   a) 1950
   b) 1975
   c) 1999
   d) 2007
4. Which city is forecast to become the largest megacity by 2015?
   a) New York
   b) Mumbai
   c) Beijing
   d) Tokyo
5. What is gentrification?
   a) the movement of the middle classes into suburban areas
   b) a policy aimed at renovating inner-city council housing stock
   c) building shopping centres in cities to create employment
   d) renovation of run-down city neighbourhoods to attract high income groups
6. Why does Mike Davis (1990) describe Los Angeles as a ‘city of quartz’?
   a) it has more millionaires than any other city
   b) it has been hardened against the poor
   c) it has more large shopping malls than any other US city
   d) it has a policy of promoting opportunity for all
7. Which of the following was not a common feature of ancient cities?
   a) walled boundaries
   b) relatively small populations
   c) a strong influence over external regions
   d) geographically small in size
8. Which of the following cities has not experienced significant urban unrest since 2000?
   a) London, UK
   b) Sydney, Australia
   c) Birmingham, UK
   d) Paris, France
9. What is urban recycling?
   a) renovating inner-city buildings for occupation by the middle classes
   b) a new domestic waste reduction strategy for inner-city areas
   c) councils buying up cheap housing to turn into commercial developments
   d) refurbishing old buildings and finding new uses for previously used land
10. Saskia Sassen’s 1991 book, The Global City compared 3 cities. Which ones?
    a) New York, London, Paris
    b) London, Mumbai, Karachi
    c) New York, London, Tokyo
    d) London, Moscow, Toronto
11. The theorist who associated city life with the development of a blasé attitude was:
    a) Tönnies
    b) Simmel
    c) Weber
    d) Wirth
12. The concept of collective consumption is most closely associated with:
    a) Harvey
    b) Molotch
    c) Castells
    d) Saunders
13. Who described urbanism as a way of life?
    a) Park
    b) Hawley
    c) Wirth
    d) Burgess
14. According to Castells, which of the following is a world city?
    a) Frankfurt
    b) Madrid
    c) Buenos Aires
    d) Moscow
15. According to Sassen, which of these is NOT a necessary trait of a global city?
    a) they are centres of direction and policy-making for the global economy
    b) they are visited by large numbers of tourists from across the world
    c) they are the key locations for financial and specialized service firms
    d) they are markets for the exchange of the products of financial services
16. Between 1800 and 1900, the population of New York grew from 60,000 to:
    a) 842,000
    b) 1.35 million
    c) 2.6 million
    d) 4.8 million
17. Which of these cities is NOT forecast to have more than 10 million inhabitants by 2015?
    a) Rio de Janiero
    b) Bangalore
    c) Beijing
    d) Moscow
18. Which of these facts is NOT true about Mexico City?
    a) there was a shortfall of 5.4 million homes in 1996
    b) only 6% of the land is open space
    c) the ozone level reached 398 points in 1992
    d) living in the city is equivalent to smoking 40 cigarettes a day

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