GLOBAL CITIES AND DEMOGRAPHY

Question 1

Describes the movement of people from a
less urbanized or less progressive
environment to a more urbanized and more
progressive area

Answer 1

Global Population and Mobility

Question 2

Cities having worldwide
rather than the limited or
provincial scope

Answer 2

Global City

Question 3

Portray the economic,
social and political state
of the country and its
people.

Answer 3

Global City

Question 4

Usually invokes pleasant
images of travel,
exploration and pursuits
enjoyed by those who have
benefited from
globalization

Answer 4

“citizen of the world”

Question 5

According to her, one of the conditions of the
status of global city is to
stop making things and
switch to handling and
shifting money and ideas.

Answer 5

Val Colic Peisker

Question 6

According to him, global cities are typically

colonial-linked

Answer 6

Gregory Bracken

Question 7

According to him, nodal points in the global city
network have formed
themselves in places in places
where networks already
existed

Answer 7

Gregory Bracken

Question 8

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Answer 8

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Question 9

The geographic dispersal of
economic activities that marks
globalization, such as managing,
coordinating, servicing, financing
a firm’s network of operations.

Answer 9

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Question 10

Central functions become so
complex that increasingly the
headquarters of large global firms
outsource “accounting, legal,
public relations, programming,
telecommunications and other
such services”.

Answer 10

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Question 11

Those specialized service firms
engaged in the most complex and
globalized markets are subject to
agglomeration economies

Answer 11

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Question 12

the benefits that come when firms and people locate near one another together in cities and industrial clusters

Answer 12

agglomeration economies

Question 13

The more headquarters
outsource their most complex,
unstandardized functions,
particularly those subject to
uncertain and changing markets,
the freer they are to opt for any
location.

Answer 13

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Question 14

These specialized service
firms need to provide a
global service which has
meant a global network of
affiliates and a strengthening
of cross border city-to-city
transactions and networks.

Answer 14

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Question 15

The economic fortunes of these
cities become increasingly
disconnected from their broader
hinterlands or even their national
economies.

Answer 15

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Question 16

The growing
informalization of a
range of economic
activities which find
their effective demand
in these cities, yet have
profit rates that do not
allow them to compete
for various resources
with the high-profit
making firms at the top
of the system.

Answer 16

Saskia Sassen’s Seven Hypotheses on the Causes and

Nature of Global Cities

Question 17

command points in the
global economy as the
core of globalization’s
peripheral region

Answer 17

Global Cities

Question 18

According to him, Global Cities are
command points in the
global economy as the
core of globalization’s
peripheral region.

Answer 18

Chris Hudson

Question 19

established the most
powerful global financial articulations (eg.
London, New York, Tokyo)

Answer 19

Truly Global Cities

Question 20

identified by the level of their
multinational articulations (eg. Miami, Los
Angeles, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Singapore)

Answer 20

Second Tier Cities

Question 21

distinguished by the importance
of their national articulations (eg. Paris, Zurich,
Madrid, Sydney, Seoul)

Answer 21

Third Tier Cities

Question 22

with subnational and regional
articulations (eg. Osaka and Kobe in Japan, Hong
Kong and the Pearl River Delta region in China)

Answer 22

Fourth Tier Cities

Question 23

the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations

Answer 23

demography

Question 24

societies typically
transition from periods of
high birth and death rates to
eras of lower birth and
death rates

Answer 24

Theory of Demographic

Transition

Question 25

According to him, during transition, first mortality and then fertility
declined, causing population growth rates to accelerate
and then to slow again, moving toward low fertility,
long life and an old population.

Answer 25

Ronald Lee

Question 26

It partly led to the expansion of scientific
inquiries which helped improve health care for many
citizens.

Answer 26

Industrialization, (Ronald Lee)

Question 27

Identifies the four stages of classical demographic

transition model

Answer 27

International Union for the Scientific Study of

Population (IUSSP)

Question 28

characterised by high birth rates, and
high fluctuating death rates; population growth was
kept low by Malthusian

Answer 28

1. Pre-transition

Question 29

late age at

marriage

Answer 29

preventive

Question 30

famine, war, pestilence

Answer 30

positive

Question 31

When the death rate begins to fall and as

birth rates remain high, the population starts to grow rapidly.

Answer 31

2. Early transition

Question 32

The period when birth rates start to

decline and the rate of population growth decelerates.

Answer 32

3. Late transition

Question 33

Characterised by low birth and low death
rates and population growth is negligible, or even enters a
decline.

Answer 33

4. Post-transition

Question 34

He presented an alternative phasing, with five

stages of classical demographic transition model.

Answer 34

Dave Grover,
Dave Grover’s Five Stages of Classical
Demographic Transition

Question 35

During this stage, population size
“remains fairly constant”, but experienced “major
swings” with disruptive events such as wars or
pandemics.

Answer 35

Stage 1 of Dave Grover’s Five Stages of Classical

Demographic Transition

Question 36

Refers to the period of modern medicine
that helps lower death rates, “especially among
children, while birth rates remain high,” resulting
to rapid population growth.

Answer 36

Stage 2 of Dave Grover’s Five Stages of Classical

Demographic Transition

Question 37

Begins when birth rates gradually
decrease, usually as a result of improved
economic conditions, an increase in women’s
status, and access to contraception.

Answer 37

Stage 3 of Dave Grover’s Five Stages of Classical

Demographic Transition

Question 38

The period of population stability

when birth rate, as well as the death rate, is low.

Answer 38

Stage 4 of Dave Grover’s Five Stages of Classical

Demographic Transition

Question 39

A period of an ageing population
where fertility rates have fallen below the
replacement level of two children.

Answer 39

Stage 5 of Dave Grover’s Five Stages of Classical

Demographic Transition

Question 40

Countries tend to experience population rises, but they

differ in the pace of entering the various stages.

Answer 40

Demographic Transition

Question 41

LEDCs are still at stage 2 or 3 where the population

continues to increase high rate.

Answer 41

Demographic Transition

Question 42

MEDCs are now at stage 4, that is, when the high
population is complemented by a low birth rate and a
low death rate. Still others, such as Germany, have
reached stage 5

Answer 42

Demographic Transition