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What is a metropolitan area?
a) a major city and its surrounding suburbs
b) the downtown or central business district of a city
c) a ring of suburbs surrounding a city's urban core
d) the small towns, farms, and open spaces that lie just beyond a city's suburbs

What mode of transportation allowed city workers to live in far away suburbs and commute to their jobs?
a) streetcars
b) horses
c) cars
d) trains

Which of the following is a statement that a person opposing urban growth might say?
a) Homeowners in new developments pay taxes which help fund roads, schools, and other city services.
b) Houses in the suburbs cost less and are better places to raise a family.
c) People in new developments spend money on furnishings, which is good for local stores.
d) Developing rural areas destroys habitats for plants and animals.

What kind of reasons do many people give to support urban growth?
a) emotional
b) economic
c) health
d) environmental

As Portland, Oregon began to expand in the 1960s and 1970s, people feared that
a) federal highway funds would be withheld because of excessive air pollution.
b) city planners would close down the public transit system.
c) the rich farmland of the Willamette Valley would be covered by development.
d) all of the above

In Portland, the legal border that separates urban land from rural land is called
a) a mixed-use development.
b) an urban growth boundary.
c) the Official Plan.
d) MARTA.

Which phrase best describes Portland today?
a) a compact city with controlled growth
b) a sprawling city with a rundown urban core
c) the fastest-spreading human settlement in history
d) a lightly populated city of big houses on large lots

What is one benefit of a mixed-use development?
a) Housing is kept far away from the noise and traffic of business districts.
b) There is plentiful parking because the development is built around the need for cars.
c) People can live, work, and shop in the same neighborhood.
d) Housing density is lower, and there is plenty of land between homes.

How did Toronto address its problems with a rundown urban core in the 1960s?
a) It largely abandoned the city center and focused on building sprawling suburbs.
b) It ignored the problem because city planners could not reach a resolution.
c) It demolished most downtown buildings and converted the area to a city park.
d) It rebuilt its downtown through infill projects, including many skyscrapers.

What decision did Toronto's leaders make in 1999 that would affect the city for decades?
a) They decided to allow private developers to shape Toronto's growth.
b) They began to create a plan to control the growth of the city.
c) They gave up federal highway funds to avoid having to deal with the air pollution problem.
d) They abandoned the urban core in favor of suburban development.

Toronto's Official Plan allows growth to continue in what percentage of the city?
a) 5 percent
b) 25 percent
c) 45 percent
d) 70 percent

According to Toronto's Official Plan, most new developments will consist of
a) infill and mixed-use projects in the urban core.
b) housing and commercial developments in the suburbs.
c) developments in parks and other open spaces.
d) all of the above

What resulted from Atlanta's remarkable growth in the 1990s?
a) What resulted from Atlanta's remarkable growth in the 1990s?
b) traffic jams
c) air pollution
d) all of the above

Which of the following statements is true?
a) South America has more people than any other continent.
b) Most big cities in the world are located in extremely cold or arid regions.
c) By 2000, nearly half of the world's population lived in urban areas.
d) In the last 20 years, more people have moved to rural areas than to urban areas.

Why does urban sprawl continue in the United States and Canada?
a) Land and building costs are cheaper in the rural fringe than in the urban core.
b) Some people prefer suburban homes to city apartments.
c) Many people don't like laws that limit where they can choose to live.
d) all of the above

Which of the following statements about the United States and Canada is true?
a) The populations of both countries are no longer growing.
b) Development continues to push into the rural fringe in both countries.
c) Urban sprawl is actually good for the environment.
d) Both nations have agreed to bring a halt to all future development.

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