Deck 14: Conclusion

Question 1

Which of the following provide the link between the supply side (real estate and government) and the demand side (peoples' personal choices) of urbanization?

A) Elected officials
B) Rents
C) Cultural values
D) Speculative investments

Question 2

Residential segregation exists in all nodes of the MCMR, not just the historic inner city.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which of the following is true for MCMR's in global capitalism?

A) MCMR's across the globe compete with other MCMR's to attract global investments
B) All places operate under the constraint of maximizing profit
C) Immediate communication and rapid transfers of capital mean distinctions between places are less meaningful over time
D) Answers A and B
E) Answers B and C

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In the US today, child poverty rates are greater in urban places compared to rural places.

Question 5

What prompted the Treasury Department to expand its program investigating money laundering in real estate in 2016?

A) Widespread speculative investment in rural real estate
B) Real estate industry concerns about the incoming Trump administration
C) The finding that more than a quarter of luxury home purchases in Manhattan and Miami were flagged as suspicious
D) Answers A and B
E) All of the above

Question 6

Which of the following is true of Frey's (2018) observations of growth and development across MCMR's?

A) City growth is exceeding suburban growth overall, but suburban growth exceeds city growth in seventeen of the fifty-three metropolitan areas he studied
B) Suburban growth is exceeding city growth overall, but city growth exceeds suburban growth in seventeen of the fifty-three metropolitan areas he studied
C) In rust belt MCMR's suburban growth outpaces inner city growth, but in sun belt MCMR's city growth is outpacing suburban development.
D) In rust belt MCMR's city growth outpaces suburban growth, but in sun belt MCMR's suburban growth is outpacing city development.

Question 7

Which of the following are true of Kolko's (2015) findings about where 25-34 year olds are choosing to live?

A) "Urban" residence in his research refers to people residing in historical inner cities, so many residents of MCMRs outside of historical inner cities are not considered as urban, even when other observers would consider their environment urban.
B) According to the most recent detailed census data available, covering the years 2009 to 2013, 25- to 34-year-olds are slightly less likely to live in urban neighborhoods than 25- to 34-year-olds in 2000.
C) People may not moving to historical inner cities at high rates, but capital investment is.
D) Answers B and C
E) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following are among the ongoing conditions preventing US residents from purchasing homes?

A) Student loan debt obligations
B) Millennial distrust of suburban social life
C) A cultural preference for the flexibility of renting
D) Answers A and B
E) All of the above

Question 9

When the authors discuss the need for a revival of the "public good" concept, what are they referring to?

A) A primary concern is the need for today's cities to be redesigned around public squares
B) How issues like housing, transportation, and the environment need the good faith participation of government leaders.
C) The authors suggest all utility services in MCMRs should be publicly owned and operated
D) The authors suggest that improved neighboring among city residents would lead to better local government.

Question 10

Which of the following from this chapter highlight how people can still make a difference in the shaping of their communities and urban social life?

A) Examples of citizen activism, community movements, and NGO organizing
B) The recent elections of technocratic political officials
C) The new investments of capital in deindustrialized places
D) The cultural acquiescence to neoliberal policy formation

Question 11

Why do the authors suggest starting with the real estate sector in applying the sociospatial approach to studying urban social life?

Question 12

Explain why the authors see racism as the most influential ideological variable shaping urban social life today.

Question 13

Discuss the ways in which globalization shapes development in MCMRs and identify global actors and their roles and functions in these processes.

Question 14

How has poverty moved across MCMRs in recent decades? Where are poverty rates highest today? Explain why.

Question 15

How is foreign investment re-shaping real estate and social life in metropolitan regions in the US?

Question 16

Identify and discuss two examples of local, people-led movements that have challenged external forces to assert control over local development.