Test Bank The Urban World 11th Edition by J. John Palen
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Test Bank The Urban World 11th Edition by J. John Palen
The Urban World, Eleventh Edition, provides a comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, and cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world.
ISBN-10 : 0190903163
ISBN-13 : 978-0190903169
J. John Palen (Author)
Table Of Contents
PART I: FOCUS AND DEVELOPMENT
1. The Urban World
Introduction
The Process of Urbanization
Urban Growth
Megacities
The Urban Explosion
Defining Urban Areas
Urbanization and Urbanism
Urbanization
Urbanism
Organizing the Study of Urban Life
Concepts of the City
Urban Change and Confusion
Rural Simplicity versus Urban Complexity
Early Social Theories and Urban Change
European Theorists
The Chicago School
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
2. The Emergence of Cities
Introduction
The Ecological Complex
Political Economy Models
First Settlements
Agricultural Revolution
Population Expansion
Mesoamerica
Interactions of Population, Organization, Environment, and Technology
City Populations
Evolution in Social Organization
Division of Labor
Kingship and Social Class
Technological and Social Evolution
Urban Revolution
Survival of the City
The Hellenic City
Social Invention
Physical Design and Planning
Population
Diffusion of People and Ideas
Rome
Size and Number of Cities
Housing and Planning
Transportation
Life and Leisure
European Urbanization until the Industrial City
The Medieval Feudal System
Town Revival
Characteristics of Towns
Plague
Renaissance Cities
Industrial Cities
Technological Improvements and the Industrial Revolution
The Second Urban Revolution
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
PART II: AMERICAN URBANIZATION
3. The Rise of Urban America
Introduction
Colonists as Town Builders
Major Settlements
New England
The Middle Colonies
The South
Canada
Colonial Urban Influence
Cities of the New Nation: 1790-1860
Rapid Growth
Marketplace Centers
The Industrial City: 1860-1950
Technological Developments
Spatial Concentration
Twentieth-Century Dispersion
Political Life
Corruption and Urban Services
Political Bosses
Immigrants Problems
Reform Movements
Urban Imagery
Ambivalence
Myth of Rural Virtue
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
4. Ecology and Political Economy Perspectives
Introduction
Development of Urban Ecology
Invasion and Succession
Criticisms of Ecology
Role of Culture
Burgesss Growth Hypothesis
Concentric Zones
Limitations
Sector and Multiple-Nuclei Models
Urban Growth Outside North America
The Postmodern City: The Los Angeles School
Political Economy Models
Political Economy Assumptions
Examples of the Political Economy Approach
The Baltimore Study
Urban Growth Machines
World Systems Theory and Globalization
Challenges
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
5. Metro and Edge City Growth
Introduction
Metropolitan Growth
In-Movement: 1900 to 1950
Out-Movement: 1950 into the Twenty-First Century
Commuting and Communication
Canadian Urban Regions
Post-industrial Central Cities
Edge Cities
Edgeless and Private Edge Cities
Boomburgs
Suburban Business Growth
End of Malling of the Land
Malls and “Street Safety”
Non-metropolitan Growth
Diffuse Growth
National Society
The Rise of the Sunbelt
Population and Economic Shifts
Regional Consequences
Sunbelt Problems
Movement to the Coasts
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
6. The Suburban Era
Introduction
Suburban Dominance
Emergence of Suburbs
The Nineteenth Century
Electric Streetcar Era: 1890-1920
Annexation
Automobile Suburbs: 1920-1950
Mass Suburbanization: 1950-1990
Metro Sprawl: 1990-2010
Causes of Suburban Growth
Postwar Exodus
Non-reasons
Contemporary Suburbia
Categories of Suburbs
Persistence of Characteristics?
Ethnic and Religious Variation
High-Income Suburbs
Gated Communities
Common-Interest Developments
Working-Class Suburbs
Commercial Definitions
Exurbs
Rurban Areas
Characteristics of Suburbanites
Suburban Poverty
The Myth of Suburbia
Minority Suburbanization
Suburban Diversity
Black Flight
Integration or Resegregation?
Latino Suburbanization
Asian Suburbanites
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
Part III: Metropolitan Life
7. Urban Culture and Lifestyles
Introduction
Social Psychology of Urban Life
Early Formulations
The Chicago School
“Urbanism as a Way of Life”
Re-evaluations of Urbanism and Social Disorganization
Determinist Theory
Compositional Theory
Subcultural Theory
Characteristics of Urban Populations
Age
Gender
Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
Declining Middle Class
Urban Lifestyles
Cosmopolites
Unmarried or Childless
Gay Households
Ethnic Villagers
Neighborhood Characteristics
Deprived or Trapped
A Final Note of Caution
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
8. The Social Environment of Metro Areas: Strangers, Crowding, Homelessness, and Crime
Introduction
Dealing with Strangers
Codes of Urban Behavior
Altruism
Neighboring
Neighbors and Just Neighbors
Defining Community
Categories of Local Communities
Density and Crowding
Crowding Research
Practical Implications
Homelessness
Characteristics of the Homeless
Social Problems
SRO Housing
Urban Crime
Crime and Perceptions of Crime
Broken Windows Theory and Predictive Policing
Crime and City Size
Crime and Male Youth
Crime and Race
Crime Variations within Cities
Crime in the Suburbs
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
9. Diversity: Women, Ethnics, and African Americans
Introduction
Women in Metropolitan Life
Female Domesticity
Gendered Organization of Residential Space
Feminist Housing Preferences
Cohousing and Downsizing
Current Housing Choices
Gendered Public Spaces
Workplace Changes
White Ethnic Groups
Immigration
First-Wave Immigrants
Second-Wave Immigrants
Third-Wave Immigrants
“Racial Inferiority” and Immigration
African Americans
Historical Patterns
Population Changes
Slavery in Cities
“Free Persons of Color”
Jim Crow Laws
“The Great Migration”
Moving South
Urban Segregation Patterns
Extent of Segregation
Housing Discrimination
Twenty-First-Century Diversity
The Economically Successful
The Disadvantaged
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
10. Diversity: Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans
Introduction
New-Wave Immigrants
Recent Immigration Impact on Cities
Melting Pot or Cultural Pluralism
Latino Population
Legal Status
Growth
Diversity
Mexican Americans
Mexican Diversity
Education
Urbanization
Housing and Other Patterns
Political Involvement
Puerto Ricans
Asian Americans
A “Model Minority”?
Asian Residential Segregation
The Case of Japanese Americans
Internment Camps
Japanese Americans Today
Native Americans
Nonurban Orientation
Movement to Cities
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
PART IV: METRO ISSUES, HOUSING, SPRAWL, AND PLANNING
11. Cities and Change
Introduction
The Urban Crisis: Thesis
Urban Revival: Antithesis
A Political Economy Look at the Urban Crisis
Twenty-First-Century City Developments
New Patterns
Central Business Districts
Mismatch Hypothesis
Downtown Housing
Fiscal Health
Crumbling Infrastructure
Neighborhood Revival
Gentrification
Government and Revitalization
Who Is Gentrifying?
Why Is Gentrification Taking Place?
Displacement of the Poor
Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods
Successful Working-Class Revival
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
12. Housing Policies, Sprawl, and Smart Growth
Introduction
Housing in the Twenty-First Century
Mobility
Housing Costs
Changing Households
Return Nesters
Changing Federal Role
Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Programs
Subsidizing Segregation
Upper- and Middle-Class Housing Subsidies
Back to the City?
Urban Redevelopment Policies
Critique of Urban Renewal
Phasing Out Public Housing
Urban Homesteading
Rent Vouchers: Section 8
Hope VI Projects
Tax Credits
Designing for Safety
Growth Control
Suburban Sprawl
Auto-Driven Sprawl
Amount of Sprawl
Costs and Consequences
Smart Growth
Advantages
Legislation
Summary
Key Concepts
Review Questions
13. Planning, New Towns, and New Urbanism
Introduction
Ancient Gre