Unit 6 check

Unit 6 check: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes

11 questions from 11 lessons in Unit 6. Answer each one, and if you miss, follow the link back to where it is taught, then try again. Your score counts first tries.

Question 1 · from 6.1 · Fill the statement

Complete the description of a hypothetical town.

Town D was founded where a river ran shallow enough for carts to cross, so its explains its . Its first was as a market where farmers from both banks of the river traded.

Question 2 · from 6.2 · Calculate

In a hypothetical count of the world's megacities, 12 of 20 were in periphery or semiperiphery countries in an earlier year. In a later year, 30 of 40 were. By how many percentage points did the periphery and semiperiphery share of the world's megacities rise?

Your answer percentage points

Question 3 · from 6.3 · Multiple choice

Suppose the stock exchange in hypothetical City Y, a world city, closes for a week. Through the networks and linkages that connect cities, which places will feel the closing most directly?

Question 4 · from 6.4 · Fill the statement

Complete the description of Christaller's model.

Christaller drew each market area as a . A place selling higher-order goods needs a market area to reach its threshold, so a region holds such places than places selling only lower-order goods.

Question 5 · from 6.5 · Rank it

In hypothetical City W, four land users bid for land, in dollars per square meter per year, invented for this lesson. Using bid-rent theory, rank what each would bid for a site 4 km from the CBD. Work out each bid at 4 km before you rank.

Highest bid first

Give each one a place, 1 for first. Give two the same place if they are equal.

Retail stores: 3,000 at the CBD, and 500 less for each kilometer out
Factories: 1,500 at the CBD, and 100 less for each kilometer out
Housing: 1,000 at the CBD, and 50 less for each kilometer out
Farming: 200 at any distance

Your ranking: none yet

Setup for question 6

Hypothetical City R's planning office describes four of its neighborhoods, all hypothetical: how much land each covers, how many homes it has, and when most of its housing was built.

City R (hypothetical): four neighborhoods
Neighborhood	Acres of land	Housing units	Most housing built
Canal Ward	50	1,250	1900s
Eastgate	120	480	1970s
Elm Park	30	360	1920s
Station Square	15	900	2010s

Question 6 · from 6.6 · Decide and justify

City R's planners approve a new hypothetical neighborhood, Tolvany Fields: 600 detached houses on 200 acres of farmland at the city's edge. Is Tolvany Fields an example of infilling?

Which reason supports your answer?

Setup for question 7

Hypothetical City W's planning office surveyed its four districts, each with about 50,000 residents. Every figure is invented for this lesson.

City W (hypothetical): infrastructure and new businesses by district
District	Homes with piped water and sewer	Homes with broadband	Transit trip to the main job center	New businesses per year
Central	99%	94%	15 minutes	140
Riverside	96%	88%	25 minutes	90
Hillside	72%	51%	55 minutes	20
Southfield	48%	30%	80 minutes	8

Question 7 · from 6.7 · Multiple choice

Which conclusion about City W do the data best support?

Setup for question 8

Hypothetical City Z adopted a plan five years ago. It drew a greenbelt around the city and rezoned the blocks around two new rail stations, in Districts 1 and 2, for mixed land use at higher density. District 1 was an old mill district of brick buildings. Districts 3 and 4 have no station. Every number in the table is invented.

City Z (hypothetical): four districts, before the plan and five years after (before, then after)
District	Rail station	Median monthly rent (dollars)	Residents who walk, bike or ride transit to work	Buildings from before 1925 still standing
1	Yes	900, then 1,350	22%, then 41%	60, then 25
2	Yes	1,000, then 1,300	18%, then 37%	4, then 4
3	No	950, then 1,000	15%, then 16%	30, then 30
4	No	1,100, then 1,240	8%, then 9%	0, then 0

Question 8 · from 6.8 · Calculate

What percent of District 1's buildings from before 1925 were lost in the five years after the plan?

Your answer percent

Setup for question 9

Northgate is a neighborhood in hypothetical City X. The table gives counts from two censuses ten years apart, and one row from a survey of 400 households taken in each census year. A field study in the second census year recorded a closed bowling alley and two new apartment buildings, and a long-time resident told the researcher, "I hardly know anyone on my street now."

Northgate (hypothetical): census and survey data
Measure	Census 1	Census 2
Total residents (census)	6,000	7,500
Residents aged 65 and older (census)	900	750
Households that own their home (census)	2,000	1,500
Surveyed households that moved in within the last 5 years (survey of 400)	15%	40%

Question 9 · from 6.9 · Multiple choice

The long-time resident's remark to the researcher is which kind of data, and what can it show?

Question 10 · from 6.10 · Spot the error

A student judges an old project in hypothetical City S. Which line is the first to go wrong?

Question 11 · from 6.11 · Select all

A hypothetical county's farmland protection policy buys the development rights of farmers who volunteer to sell them. Which two are limitations of this policy? Select two.

Select 2 answers, then check.

0 of 11 answered.