Deck 4: Urbanization in the United States

Question 1

According to the sociospatial perspective adopted in this book, what is the best way to explain patterns in urban development and city social life?

A) An analysis that connects the production of settlement space to the society's political economy.
B) A perspective that argues that settlement space emerges from the nature of social conflict in a competitive economy.
C) A theory that understands real estate as being driven by cultural priorities.
D) An assessment that understands capital as the primary mechanism for cultural enforcement.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Boosterism is a term for what?

A) The promotion of development of particular places, using through the combined efforts of developers and politicians
B) Government investment in public spaces
C) Corporate investment in technological research
D) Manufacturing of primary goods in colonial exchange

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which US founding father worked as a surveyor when he was young and participated in the boosterism of the development of Washington, DC as he and his family were active real estate speculators?

A) George Washington
B) John Adams
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Benjamin Franklin

Answer 3

A

Question 4

This is one of four historical stages of urbanization in America, lasting from 1812-1920, that involved westward expansion and development along the Great Lakes and Ohio River Valley.

A) The Colonial Period
B) The Era of Industrial Expansion
C) The Rise of the Metropolis
D) Mercantilism

Question 5

It was during these decades that millions of blacks left the South in search of work in northern cities.

A) 1870s and 1880s
B) 1900s and 1910s
C) 1940s and 1950s
D) 1980s and 1990s

Question 6

Which of the US colonial cities specialized in trade of rice and indigo?

A) Boston, MA
B) Newport, RI
C) New York, NY
D) Philadelphia, PA
E) Charleston, SC

Question 7

An absence of autonomous government and lack of political responsibility among residents of cities was a legacy of which era of urbanization in the US?

A) The Colonial Period
B) The Era of Industrial Expansion
C) The Rise of the Metropolis
D) Westward Expansion

Question 8

What was the most significant technological innovation that supported Westward expansion of US city development?

A) Canal building and enlarged barges
B) The steel rail and steam locomotive
C) Ford's Model T and assembly line production
D) The telegraph and other communication technology

Question 9

The sociospatial perspective observes that what pattern is repeated several times in US urban growth?

A) Capital investment coupled with government subsidies and competition among separate places
B) Immigration followed by technocratic boosterism
C) Investment in public transit couple with technological decline
D) Residential investment couple with cultural amenities

Question 10

Which city is identified as the first American manufacturing city?

A) Lowell, MA
B) Newport, RI
C) Stamford, CT
D) Baltimore, MD
E) Richmond, VA

Question 11

The Home Insurance Building, described as the "first building with a full iron structure carrying the weight of the edifice" was built in which US city?

A) New York, NY
B) Chicago, IL
C) Boston, MA
D) Pittsburgh, PA

Question 12

High levels of population churning was a distinctive aspect of the Era of Industrial Expansion.

Question 13

Identify and describe the major eras of urban development.

Question 14

What are the distinctive legacies of urban development and city social life from each of the major eras of urban development for US cities?

Question 15

Discuss the role of specific technological advances in shaping the characteristics of settlement space.

Question 16

Industrial development led to rapid growth of cities at the end of the nineteenth century. What are some of the social problems that resulted from this concentrated form of factory production within the city? What problems from this time remain with us to this day?

Question 17

Describe the features of the metropolitan city as they relate to corporate monopoly capitalism.

Question 18

What has changed in the central city as a result of the shift to global capitalism with regard to the following: a) spatial differentiation; b) functional differentiation; c) demographic changes?