Chapter Report#3

Chapter Report #3 Name: Maxintong Song Global Urbanization NetID: mxt20001(2924691) All responses to the following questions must be derived from the course’s textbook. (Do not use Internet sources ) Type or mark your responses directly in the space provided and upload your file in WORD (.docx) or PDF via HuskyCT by due date/time. Your input to open-ended questions must be a short phase or a sentence or two at most. Metro and Edge City Growth (Ch. 5) 1. In Box 5.1 ‘Defining Metropolitan Area’, where is suburban commonly referred to within the MSA’s context? Traditionally, the federal government has defined metropolitan areas in two ways: as urbanized areas and as metropolitan statistical areas. In 2003 the system for defining metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) was redefined to reflect the decentralization of employment and population within metro areas.* 2. Edge cities can be viewed as an extension of the (concentric zone / sector / multiple-nuclei ) model of urban growth and are usually totally (pedestrian / automobile ) oriented. (Choose one for each pair ) 3. With respect to the rise of the Sunbelt, businesses are said to be attracted by a “good business climate.” What does it mean by this? List 4 factors in the context of the Sunbelt.  l ower wages  lower taxes  lower land costs  lower rate of unionization. The Suburban Era? (Ch. 6) 4. With the arrival of electric streetcars, the spatial configuration of Boston as a walking city changed. In what shape did Boston and other American cities grow with this new mode of transportation? a. from that of a compact city to that of a star-shaped urban area b. the streetcar meant one could live as far as twelve miles from the central business district. c. the middle-class population could separate where they worked from where they lived d. Development, both residential and commercial, occurred along the fingers of the electric streetcar tracks, while the interstices remained empty and undeveloped. 5. What were important government policies or programs that caused the postwar suburban exodus associated with mortgage loans? List two. a. acted to directly subsidize suburban growth. b. the federal government further subsidized out-movement by financing the construction of a system of metropolitan expressways. 6. High-income suburbs were historically represented by ( WASP-dominated / multicultural ) communities, while one’s (ethnicity / religion / bank balanc e ) is more important in such suburbs today. (Choose one for each pair ) 7. Some gated communities are built as retirement communities where children and people aged under 55 years old are barred by community bylaws. What is the economic benefit of residents in such communities? Most importantly, no children means no schools. And no schools means no school taxes, and thus very low property taxes.