PSC 102 - JSU - Chapter 12

False

True or False:
The majority of Americans live and work in areas that are considered rural.

metropolitan

What term does the U.S. Office of Management and Budget use to describe areas that have a large population nucleus and that consist of one or more counties?

rural

metropolitan

exurb

suburban

True 

True or False:
The hole in the organizational structure of the federal system is at the regional level.

Amazon

Which of these companies started in Seattle and has since then caused growing pains for the city?

Multiple Choice Question

Tesla

Amazon

Google

Apple

zoning laws

Which of these is responsible, at least in part, for constraining the housing supply in Seattle?

Multiple Choice Question

zoning laws

impact fees

interjurisdictional agreements

regional councils

sprawl

The rapid growth that Seattle has undergone as a result of Amazon and other tech companies’ is an example of ______.

Multiple Choice Question

gentrification

sprawl

white flight

annexation

True

True or False:
Zoning laws allow land to be used for a mix of commercial, recreational, and residential development.

sprawl

When a metropolitan area experiences rapid growth, it is referred to as ______.

Multiple Choice Question

flight

sprawl

all of these

gentrification

True

True or False:
Sprawl growth contributes to problems such as traffic congestion and smog.

exurb

Which term is used to describe the areas that serve as “bedroom communities”?

urban

exurb

metropolitan

suburban

interjurisdictional agreements

Which of these represent one of the viable alternatives for multijurisdictional governance?

Multiple Choice Question

urban growth boundaries

interjurisdictional agreements

regional councils

metropolitan planning organizations

annexation 

Which term is used to describe the legal incorporation of one jurisdiction or territory into another?

Multiple Choice Question

annexation

restoration

gentrification

transformation

urban growth boundaries

Which of the following tools is used to control the density and type of development within a given area?

Multiple Choice Question

white flight

leapfrog developments

interjurisdictional agreements

urban growth boundaries

False

True or False:
A majority of U.S. states mandate their cities to establish urban growth boundaries.

efficiency

Consolidation is advocated by groups who favor ______.

accountability

effectiveness

transparency

efficiency

False

True or False:
City-county consolidations in the United States are common and happen fairly often.

False

True or False:
There are very few limitations placed on annexation processes in the United States.

False

True or False:
Regional councils primarily include municipalities and school districts at the exclusion of other entities.

False

True or False:
The Tiebout model is a practical guide for governance in metropolitan areas, addressing the needs of highly mobile and politically informed citizens.

True

True or False:
In the public choice model of regional development, governments are seen as producers, and citizens are consumers.

gentrification

Which of these processes focuses on the rehabilitation of communities, but also results in the creation of pockets of middle-class wealth within cities?

Multiple Choice Question

annexation

association

consolidation

gentrification

True 

True or False:
The populations of a significant number of rural counties in the United States are both shrinking and aging.

rural flight 

States such as Iowa are likely to face the challenge of ______.

Multiple Choice Question

rural flight

housing shortages

environmental disaster

gentrification

exurb

Woodland Park, Colorado, is located in a rural setting, some 20 miles northwest of Colorado Springs. While there are some retail stores to cater to the high-income population, there is very little industry in the town. Most residents instead commute daily into Colorado Springs for work. By this description, Woodland Park is a(n) ______ of Colorado Springs.

Multiple Choice Question

suburb

exurbs

metropolis

borough

False

True or False:
The reform perspective of metropolitan governance argues that state governments should address the problems and challenges in metropolitan areas.

True

True or False:
School consolidations are common in some rural states.

True

True or False:
The public choice model of regional development views governments and the services that they provide in market terms.

zoning laws

Suppose the elected leaders of Baltimore wanted to ensure that no factories were built in a particular region of the city to ensure that this area remained unpolluted for the large number of residents who already lived there, what tool would these city leaders use?

Multiple Choice Question

impact fees.

city-county consolidation

zoning laws

interjurisdictional agreements

regional government 

Large metropolitan regions that consist of cities and counties often face policy challenges and problems that could be better addressed if there was ______.

Multiple Choice Question

state bureaucracy

federal intervention

a local constitution

regional government

city–county consolidation

In the early republic, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, one of the state’s original three counties, contained Philadelphia City and a number of smaller towns, like Germantown, Frankford, Spring Garden, and Manayunk. As the city grew in the nineteenth century and absorbed many of these smaller settlements, it became increasingly clear that public services were being provisioned inefficiently. As such the City of Philadelphia and the County of Philadelphia became co-terminus in 1854, as they are today, in a process known as ______.

Multiple Choice Question

municipal incorporation

smart growth

annexation

city–county consolidation

World War II 

Which twentieth-century event or process led to the phenomena known as white flight and the creation of exurbs?

Multiple Choice Question

the Great Depression

World War I

World War II

the Vietnam War

consolidation or merger

Which of these approaches have rural states used to address the shrinking student population?

Multiple Choice Question

creation of a pan-regional government

consolidation or merger

legal incorporation of one jurisdiction into another

establishment of a regional council

True 

True or False:
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget refers to a region with a large population nucleus that comprises one or more counties as a metropolitan area.

sprawl

Which term is used to describe the rapid outward growth of metropolitan areas that took place especially after World War II in the United States?

Multiple Choice Question

gentrification

annexation

sprawl

white flight

citizens

In the public choice model of regional development, who are considered the consumers of public services?

Multiple Choice Question

businesses

citizens

interest groups

governments

False

True or False:
One of the fastest and least complicated methods of right-sizing regional government is the process of city-county mergers.

True

True or False:
The phenomenon of white flight led to the proliferation of poor inner city neighborhoods.

economic

The basic problem highlighted by a lack of regional government structures is that political geography no longer aligns with ______ geography.

Multiple Choice Question

economic

cultural

environmental

demographic