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Hispanic Americans increasingly live in suburban places.

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Portland Oregon is an example of the application of a "smart growth" policy that did not succeed.

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Livable cities often are the result not of grand schemes but of programs and policies of the middle range. Do you agree or not? Give examples to support your view.

Central-city populations generally can be expected to decrease sharply.

Some federal programs and policies designed from the 1950s to the 1970s had the goal of rebuilding the cities and slowing the middle-class exodus to the suburbs.

The rate of Hispanic American suburbanization is declining.

Explain the meaning of the "Oath of the Athenian city state."

The vision of an urban utopia, called "Broadacre City" that has no large buildings was proposed by __________.

In the United States, which of the following has fostered the deindustrialization of central cities?

President Trump was the first president in 20 years to put urban planning back on the national agenda.

According to the text, the strategy for urban planning and problem solving, which suggests that problems can be solved by adopting better leadership and administrators, is referred to as __________.

New world class cities of the future are now being constructed in

Appointing new leadership to deal with the problem of suburban sprawl, without making any major changes to government policy, is regarded as a conventional approach to urban planning.

The state of North Carolina has a policy of concentrated economic activity.

Which of the following is a trend predicted by 50 urban planners and historians in the U.S.?

Which version of urban utopia proposed cities where each inhabitant would be allotted at least one acre of land to farm?

The U.S. high-rise urban renewal buildings of the 1960s were influenced by Le Corbusier's vision of the city.

Migration in North America today primarily is from __________.

Which one of the following is NOT a social planning approach?

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania now is a city center with a service-based economy and no longer has any steel mills.