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| How much of the world's population is living in urban places? |
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| By 2030, the world urbanization rate will be _____? |
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| In 1950, the world urbanization rate was _____? |
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| Between 2007 and 2030, the urban share will rise from ____% to ____% in more developed countries. |
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| Between 2007 and 2030, the urban share will rise from ____% to ____% in less developed countries. |
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| What is a process whereby a society is transformed from an essentially rural to a predominantly urban one? |
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The following two factors are indicators of what?:
1. The proportion of the total population of an area concentrated in urban settlement.
2. The proportion of a place's total area that is dedicated to urban (as opposed to rural) land uses. |
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| Which process has a beginning and an end: urbanization or urban growth? |
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| Which process has no inherent limits: urbanization or urban growth? |
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| What are the two potential formulas for urbanization? |
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1: (Urban pop. / Total pop.) * 100
2. (Urban land area / Total land area) * 100 |
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| What is the formula for calculating urban growth? |
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| How can cities grow without any increase in urbanization? (3 possibilities) |
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1. The rural population grows at an equal or greater rate.
2. The place is 100% urbanized, but continues to grow because births exceed deaths or foreign immigration is larger than any exodus of nationals.
3. Ratio of urban to rural land areas remains the same or declines. |
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| What organized body is typically used as a basis to define urban status? |
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| The U.S. Census (under the Department of Commerce) |
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| True or False: Counties are good for statistical/research purposes, because they are fairly stable units. |
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| How many counties are there in the United States? |
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| How many counties are there in Florida? |
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| What are the "county" equivalents in Alaska (2 types) |
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| "Boroughs" and "municipalities" |
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| How many census tracts are there in the U.S.? |
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| What are the minimum and maximum population thresholds for census tracts? |
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| What is the optimum population for a census tract? |
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| Counties are divided into ___________. |
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| Census tracts are divided into ___________. |
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| What is the average population of a census block? |
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| What geographical division is the smallest unit of data tabulation? |
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| What are the minimum and maximum numbers of block groups that may be present in a given census tract? |
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| What are the minimum and maximum population thresholds for block groups? |
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| What is the optimum population for a block group? |
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| What is the term used by the U.S. Census Bureau to refer collectively to Urbanized Areas (UA) and Urban Clusters (UC)? |
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| What is a geographic entity that consists of a densely settled area with a census population of at least 50,000 and consisting of a geographic core of block groups or blocks that have a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile, and adjacent block groups and blocks with at least 500 people per square mile? |
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| What is a geographic entity that consists of a densely settled area with a census population of 2,500 to 49,999, a geographic core of block groups or blocks that have a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile, and adjacent densely settled block groups and blocks with at least 500 people per square mile? |
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| Do "urban areas" cross over state boundaries? |
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| What does the Census Bureau define as all territory, population, and housing units located outside of UAs and UCs? |
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| In the year 2000, ____% of Americans lived in Urbanized Areas (UAs). |
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| In the year 2000, ____% of Americans lived in Urban Clusters (UCs). |
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| In the year 2000, what percentage of Americans lived in urban areas? |
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| True or False: Census tracts, counties, metropolitan areas, and the territory outside metropolitan areas are often "split" between urban and rural territory. |
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| What organized body establishes the standards by which to define Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MeSAs) and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (MiSAs)? |
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| U.S. Office of Management and Budget |
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| What is usually the basis for judging whether or not counties adjacent to the core count(ies) of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MeSAs) are included? |
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| Can Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MeSAs) and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (MiSAs) cross over state boundaries? |
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| What are ares with a relatively large population nucleus and adjacent communities that have a high degree of integration with that nucleus? (2 types) |
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| Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MeSAs) and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (MiSAs) |
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| What is the minimum population for an Urbanized Area (UA) to qualify as part of a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MeSA)? |
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| What are the minimum and maximum populations required for an Urban Cluster (UC) to qualify as part of a Micropolitan Statistical Area (MiSA)? |
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| Min: 10,000 ; Max: 49,999 |
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| How many Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MeSAs) are there in the United States? |
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| How many Micropolitan Statistical Areas (MiSAs) are there in the United States? |
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| What is an umbrella term including both Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MeSAs) and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (MiSAs)? |
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| Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) |
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| What percentage of the U.S. population lives in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MeSAs)? |
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| What percentage of the U.S. population lives in Micropolitan Statistical Areas? |
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| What percentage of the population lives in Core Based Statistical Areas? |
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| What percentage of the population lives in Noncore areas? |
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| What is a subdivision unit of a CBSA containing a core of at least 2.5 million people? |
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| Every metropolitan or micropolitan area contains at least one _______________. |
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| Under what two circumstances does a county qualify as "outlying"? |
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1. 1/4 or more of the employed residents work in the central counties of the metro area.
2. 1/4 or more of the employment is composed of workers who live in the central counties. |
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| What is the term for the largest city in each statistical area? |
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| Principal city (or "central city") |
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| The title of each MeSA or MiSA consists of the names of up to ________ of its principle cities and the name of each state into which the metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area extends. |
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| What is the area outside of principal/central cities, but within the boundaries of the metropolitan area (counties) often referred to as? |
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| How many MeSAs are there in Florida? |
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| What are the four U.S. Census Regions? |
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| West, Midwest, Northeast, and South |
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| What Census Region is New Mexico a part of? |
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| What Census Region are Nebraska and the Dakotas part of? |
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| What Census Region are Delaware and Maryland a part of? |
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| What Census Region are New Jersey and Pennsylvania part of? |
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| What is an area of high land valuation characterized by a high concentration of retail businesses, service businesses, offices, theatres, and hotels and by a high traffic flow? (Generally considered the "essence" of an urban place.) |
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| Central Business District / "Downtown" (CBD) ; this is part of a central/principal city. |
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| What surrounds a downtown area, and is the oldest built-up and relatively higher population density urban area or metropolitan area consisting of both residential and nonresidential land uses? |
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| What are the earliest built residential suburbs of a metropolitan area? |
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| Inner Ring Suburbs / "First-Tier" Suburbs |
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| What are the later-built residential suburbs of the metropolitan area? |
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| What are currently rural-defined areas adjacent to metropolitan area boundaries that often subsequently become redefined as urban? |
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| What is a loose amalgamation of several metropolitan areas into a single massive region? (As defined by Gottman, 1961) |
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| What is the Northwest megapolitan area surrounding Seattle, Portland, and Eugene? |
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| What is the megapolitan region stretching from east of San Francisco to Sacramento? |
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| What is the megapolitan region consisting of the Los Angeles and Las Vegas metropolitan areas? |
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| What is the megapolitan region consisting of the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas? |
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| What is the megapolitan region stretching from Houston to New Orleans? |
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| What is the megapolitan area consisting of the Dallas, San Antonio, and Kansas City metropolitan areas? |
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| What is the megapolitan region between Chicago and Pittsburgh? |
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| What is the East Coast megapolitan region between Boston and Washington, D.C.? |
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| What is the megapolitan area in the 410-mile stretch from Atlanta to Raleigh? |
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| What is the megapolitan region consisting of the Miami and Tampa metropolitan areas? |
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| What was Brian Berry's (1970s) term for the constructed urban regions based on the level of commuting by workers to the central city core counties of metropolitan areas? |
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| What is a pattern of land use in an urban area that exhibits low levels of some combination of eight distinct dimensions: density, continuity, concentration, compactness, centrality, nuclearity, diversity, and proximity? |
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| What is the most sprawling Urbanized Area (UA)? |
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| What is the least sprawling Urbanized Area (UA)? |
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What would be the "urban settlement philosophy" of the following individual:
Urban population growing and increasing the share of settlement area in urban land uses. |
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| Pro Urban Growth and Pro Urbanization |
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What would be the "urban settlement philosophy" of the following individual:
Urban population growing but growth restricted to limited land area. Strategy: maintain urban land use boundary to concentrate urban population growth. Must result in some locations with higher land-use densities. |
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| Pro Urban Growth, Anti-Urbanization |
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What would be the "urban settlement philosophy" of the following individual:
No or limited urban population growth, but increasing share of settlement area in urban land uses. Typical of parts of upstate New York state. This creates sprawl and results in lower population densities. |
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| Anti-Urban Growth, Pro-Urbanization |
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What would be the "urban settlement philosophy" of the following individual:
No or limited urban population growth and share of urban land uses shrinking (or constant) relative to rural land area. Urban land may be reclaimed for "natural" uses. |
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| Anti-Urban Growth, Anti-Urbanization |
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| Which "urban settlement philosophy" is Detroit considering? |
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| Anti-Urban Growth, Anti-Urbanization |
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| Which "urban settlement philosophy" is in favor of a diversified population, including immigrants and economic progress, but only a pre-specified area may become "urban." By definition, this means that the population density will increase. |
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| Pro-Urban Growth, Anti-Urbanization |
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| Which "urban settlement philosophy" encourages "urban neighborhoods" in new areas, by definition resulting in lower population densities? |
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| Anti-Urban Growth, Pro-Urbanization |
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| Which "urban settlement philosophy" is our current settlement pattern, almost nationwide? This is also the manner in which most developing countries urbanize. |
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| Pro-Urban Growth, Pro-Urbanization |
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| How much of the class wants to live in rural America? |
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| How many census tracts are in Alachua County? |
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| Social and medical scientists are very interested in the role that _______________ play in public health; they tend to use _________________ as proxies for measurement of statistics relative to this end. |
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| neighborhoods ; census tracts |
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| What are aggregate clusters of census blocks, used to summarize block data and help demonstrate how neighborhoods differ? |
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| What is the population density of Gainesville? |
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| What is the population density of Union City, NJ? |
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| 53,000 people per sq. mi. |
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| Why do we get more people defined as urban in the metro definition than in the urban definition? |
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| Whole counties are included, including "linkages" |
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| What is a term for counties that may not have large populations or large densities, but they have strong commuting ties to the center? |
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| What is the newest metropolitan area in Florida? |
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| The New York Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of ____ counties, spread across _____ states. |
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| What idea argues that if you compact your housing into a small space, you increase the likelihood of the ability for public transit, shopping and stores, restaurants close by, etc.? |
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