Chapter 24

Question 1

Canada is a _____ nation

Answer 1

Suburban

Question 2

Canada: More than ____rds live in suburban areas

Answer 2

More than 2/3rds of people live in suburban places

Question 3

Suburbs are located at…

Answer 3

Periphery of large urban centres and small towns or villages.

Question 4

Newcomers to cities tend to settle directly into ….

Answer 4

Suburban or exurban areas

Question 5

Suburbanization mike

Answer 5

The combination of non-central population and economic growth with urban spatial expansion

Question 6

Suburbanisms

Answer 6

Refer to a growing prevalence of a qualitatively distinct “suburban way of life”.

Emerging modes of heterogenous, non-tradtional ways of living at the urban periphery

Question 7

Exurbs:

Answer 7

Very low-density rural areas where more than half the workers commute to the central core.

Question 8

Exurbs distribution and population

Answer 8

People living in exurbs live in rural-estate
subdivisions or along country roads,

• Includes about 8 per cent of metropolitan populations.

Question 9

Automobile suburbs

Answer 9

• Classic suburban neighbourhoods where almost everybody commutes by car
• little transit use and hardly anyone walks or cycles to work.
• Includes about 67 per cent of metropolitan populations.

Question 10

Transit suburbs

Answer 10

Neighbourhoods where a higher proportion of people commute by transit, comprising

• Includes about 12 per cent of metropolitan populations.

Question 11

Active Cores

Answer 11

Downtowns and other neighbourhoods where a higher proportion of people walk or cycle to work.

• Includes about 14% of Canadian metropolitan populations.

Question 12

How are Canadian suburbs increasingly defined by the immigrant experience?

Answer 12

• New suburban populations are more heterogenous
• Contemporary trends are to move directly to suburbs
• Destabilizes stereotypes of white middle-class nuclear families living in single family homes as the norm

Question 13

Implications of this new anticipated flow of newcomes into suburban environments

Answer 13

Social problems:

• Poverty, homelessness, food insecurity have become suburban problems

Question 14

Millennial aspirations to living situations

Answer 14

• Aspire to home ownership, rather than renting

- Prefer buying “ground-related homes” (single homes, semi-detached homes, townhomes”rather than high rise

Question 15

Suburbs used to be perceived as a space ruled by:

Answer 15

Rational choice

Personal Freedom

Economic Autonomy

Land Ownership

Question 16

Politics in Urban periphery now deal with

Answer 16

Corporate power

Lack of collective consumption services

Presence of a strong local state

Poverty

Question 17

“Aggressive suburban regimes”

Answer 17

Politicians are increasingly using their political bases to shift the meaning to metropolitics”

Aggressive suburban regimes have come to power regionally, or federally

Question 18

Canadian city population growth is in the

Answer 18

suburbs

Question 19

Post Suburbia looks like

Answer 19

New suburban forms

Most suburban development takes place in a dynamic landscape

More balance between traditional suburban functions and emergent employment and economic activity

Question 20

New suburban forms

Answer 20

Edge cities
Technoburbs
Suburban downtowns
Ethnoburbs

Question 21

Most suburban development takes place in a dynamic landscape

Meaning…

Answer 21

It resembles neither the old inner city, nor the glamorous cookie cutter suburbs

Question 22

Technoburb

Answer 22

Concentrations of high-tech industries in a suburban setting, the outcome of the movement of employment away from central cities permitted by advances in information and communications technology.

Question 23

Edge cities

Answer 23

Concentrations of employment and retail
located at the fringe of large metropolitan areas in an
otherwise traditionally lower-density suburban area.

Question 24

Suburbanization book

Answer 24

Non-central population and economic growth occurring in tandem with the spatial expansion of an urban area.