Urban locations have relative advantages and disadvantages. Which of the following options can promote spatial justice:
Localizing food and energy
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The role of ecosystem services paradigm in environmental governance is as follows. Economic valuation of natural ecosystems to discourage damages
In ‘Urbanism as a Way of Life’ (1938), American sociologist Louis Wirth argued in favour of regulations in order to counteract the forces of ‘competition, aggrandizement, and mutual exploitation’ that he said characterized urban social relations.
True.
Which of the following descriptions deviates from the proper understandings of alternative development in a city?
Utilising systematic cost-effective analyses ensures the justification of moving heritage sites for better urban development.
Typically, urbanisation represents the social and demographic processes of a space becoming urban. Which of the responses is not a typical social and demographic process that causes urbanisation?
Increasing percentage of low-income families
When we talk about an ‘urban’ population or ‘urban area’, it usually consists of several criteria that can be used to distinguish it from a rural population or a rural area. What are they?
Administrative function, economic characteristics, functional nature, and population size or density.
What is the urban growth machine (Molotch, 1976)?
A coalition of local elites who are politically mobilizing to push for local developments for economic growth
In global cities, the following items can be seen in movement and exchange: All of the above
Which of the following events that we may read about in the news relatively fits the concept of social movements?
PMD users create petitions and organise workshops to advocate for their riding rights.
Which of the following best describes ordinary individual’s concerns regarding technological advancement in cities:
Unequal access to information, breach of privacy, misuse of platforms
Co-creation of maps with collaborative tools allow people from different groups to present the information of the city. Which map has this kind of function?
Green Map.
Why is it important to challenge “business-as-usual” urbanisation? All of the above.
A heterogeneous society refers to a society in which social groups with different sociodemographic characteristics exist. It forms the plurality of a civil society. Which of the following aspects is not related to plurality in a civil society?
Environmental awareness
Creative cities aim to do all of the following except:
Increase inclusion in the knowledge economy
What did Castells (1983) say about the urban social movements? Choose the one that is relative closer to his idea.
It refers to the groups with organised actions, structures and strategies to empower people and to challenge powerful elites in a city or spaces in the city.
Koh Sin Yee (2019) pointed out the aims of comparative urbanism. Which of the following sentence is closer to the aims discussed in her work?
Take a political stance in contributing towards understandings of urban processes.
Read: Lim, Merlyna (2017) ‘Freedom to Hate: Social Media, Algorithmic Enclaves, and the Rise of Tribal Nationalism in Indonesia.’ Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 411-27. According to Lim (2017), social media can affect urban governance in the following ways:
Segregating society into different echo chambers and perpetuate political polarization
In ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’ (1903), German sociologist Georg Simmel observed that emotional relationships intensified alongside intellectual ones in cities.
False
Watch The Way to End Slums: Thailand (GreenTV, 05:47 minutes). Available athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKqxsv27iPQ
The case of housing improvement in the canalside community, when mapped on Sherry Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation (1969), will occupy this level:
Partnership
Which of the following statements shows a naive understanding of a civil society or a public sphere?
All citizen’s opinions will be guaranteed to be treated and discussed equally.
The negative stereotype that “the poor are poor because they are lazy” is misleading, because
The stereotype treats poverty as a personal problem and not a social problem as well as ignores the role of social structure
The aim of smart cities is to anticipate all issues of social discontent before they become protest issues.
False.
Looking at everyday life in the city helps us better understand diversity within the city because (circle best answer):
It provides a close-up view of how communities form and interact
The internet can facilitate grassroots organizing in all of the following ways except: Equalizing distinctions of class and education
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