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30 Cards in this Set
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Disporportionate large numbers of ___ and ___ shifted from the central cities to the suburbs.
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people and jobs
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What two types of consequences resulted from urbanization?
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economic and social consequences
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The largest incorporated place in each metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area is defined as what?
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Principal City [previously central city]
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What is the approximate population number of principal cities?
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250,000
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The names of each Metropolitan or Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of what?
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Up to three of its Principal Cities and the name of each state into which the metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area extends
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Defined as the area outside of principal/central cities, but within the boundaries of metropolitan area (counties).
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suburbs [of the metropolitan area]
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From 1970-2000, more people are increasingly moving from the central cities to where?
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Metro Area Households
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Decentralization of higher-income urbanities left behind a growing concentration of which kinds of people?
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disadvantaged minority groups and new waves of immigrants
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Cities were left with those who could not afford to ____, those with no _____ children, those loyal to the homes of their _____, or the desperate ____ poor.
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move
school-age ancestors urban |
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As a result of people moving from central cities, this guaranteed the _____ _____ of central cities.
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economic decline
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As a consequence of suburbanization, there was a depletion of cities' what?
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property tax bases
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Poverty in the ____ is higher than in the _____.
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cities
suburbs |
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Poverty in cities disproportionately affects what kind of population?
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minority populations
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Where does poverty remain highly concentrated?
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selected central city neighborhoods
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These areas are plagued by severe social ills such as violent crime and drug abuse, as well as family problems such as teenage pregnancy.
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high-poverty areas
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Minority youth unemployment in cities remains especially _____.
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high
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Why can't people living in cities can't easily get to jobs located in the suburbs?
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they do not have an automobile
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Where is the quality of schooling better? Where is it worse?
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quality of schooling in the central cities is poorer than in the suburbs
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Where are homeownership rates lowest?
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central cities
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Central city residents confront ____ ____ difficulties.
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housing affordability
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The quality of housing stock in the central cities is _____ than in the suburbs.
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poorer
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These things are inadequate in the central cities.
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public services [police, fire, garbage, snow removal]
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These people are often trapped in inner cities and older suburbs because of limited affordable housing options elsewhere.
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poor people, and especially minorities
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Lower income households are discouraged from doing what?
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moving into the communities of the residents in the more affluent suburbs
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NIMBY
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not in my back yard "syndrome"
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Poorer central city jurisdictions are under tremendous pressure to expand ____ _____ for their needy residents.
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social services
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The populations of many ____ suburbs are stagnating or declining and are becoming increasingly ____.
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older; poor
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Once more affluent households have left older suburbs in most metropolitan regions for newer suburbs further from the city center, then what has followed?
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businesses
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The challenges faced by older suburbs are not restricted two one or two regions of the country, but are _____ in scope.
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national
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Job losses in ____ ____ are almost as dramatic as those seen in central cities.
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older suburbs
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