A. the movement of the middle classes into suburban areas
B. a policy aimed at renovating inner-city council housing stock
C. building shopping centers in cities to create employment
D. renovation of run-down city neighborhoods to attract high income groups
Related Mcqs:
- Urban gentrification is an example of____________?
A. segregation
B. invasion
C. redlining
D. none of these - Who wrote The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903) ?
A. Louise Wirth
B. Robert Park
C. Georg Simmel
D. Max Weber - Which city is forecast to become the largest megacity by 2025 ?
A. New York
B. Mumbai
C. Beijing
D. Tokyo - 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 been hardened against than any other US city
D. it has a policy of promoting opportunity for all - Which of the following is not identified by Fulcher & Scott as a criterion of community ?
A. a shared sense of identity and belonging together
B. common activities involving all -round relationships
C. a fixed geographical location
D. collective action based on common interests - The ecological approach to urban sociology involved studying ?
A. how social groups colonized different areas of the city and competed for resources
B. the forms of wildlife and natural habitats that could be found on the edges of the city
C. the way in which people organized collective protests about environmental issues
D. how men and women used the city’s public spaces differently - Which of the following is not identified as a new form of community ?
A. ethnic communities based on shard identity and experiences of discrimination
B. gay villages which are formed in certain parts of large cities
C. sociological communities formed by unpopular lectures
D. virtual communities that exist only in cyberspace - In Which year did the urban areas of the world become more populous than rural areas ?
A. 1950
B. 1975
C. 1999
D. 2007 - 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
D. geographically small in size - The theorist who associated city life with the development of a blase attitude was____________?
A. Tonnies
B. Simmel
C. Weber
D. Wirth
