Reading quiz

Urban sociology

Let’s begin

Please put away your devices and pull out a sheet of paper.

Question #1 (2 pts)

Which of the following terms is defined as “growth in the proportion of a nation’s population that lives in cities”?

1. gentrification
2. urbanism
3. urbanization
4. the urban growth machine

Question #2 (3 pts)

The image on the left was presented toward the start of today’s reading.

What was phenomenon was it used to illustrate?

Question #3 (2 pts)

Which of the following terms is defined as “the unique ways of life in cities”?

1. gentrification
2. urbanism
3. urbanization
4. the urban growth machine

Question #4 (3 pts)

The fact that American cities are increasingly characterized by economic segregation is emphasize in the second part of today’s assigned reading.



Identify one aspect of this phenomena that you learned from this reading (this could be related to its causes, its consequences, or even the statistics demonstrating it as fact).