TCU URBAN WORLD WALKER EXAM WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |VERIFIED
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Where is the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area? What does it encompass? - Accurate Answers 9,286 mi²
- 13 counties surrounding Dallas and Fort Worth
What are some differences between Dallas and Fort Worth? - Accurate Answers Dallas:
o Transportation (DART)
o Global Community
o History - J...
TCU URBAN WORLD WALKER EXAM
TCU URBAN WORLD WALKER EXAM WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS |
VERIFIED
Where is the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area? What does it
encompass? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ 9,286 mi²
- 13 counties surrounding Dallas and Fort Worth
What are some differences between Dallas and Fort Worth? - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Dallas:
o Transportation (DART)
o Global Community
o History - JFK
o "Dallas"
o "Cowboys"
,Fort Worth
o "Cowboys" - Culture/Athletics
" Stockyards
o Slower Pace/Small Town Feel
o TCU
What is a streetcar suburb? Why is it named as such? What do streetcar
suburbs tend to look like? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ residential growth
along street car lines
How, and why, did metropolitan areas expand so dramatically after
World War II?
o What did post-war suburbs look like?
o What are "Levittowns?"
o What government policies contributed to suburbanization during this
period? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ - post-war suburbanization: federally
insured, low interest mortgages
- Levittown: idealized notion of what an ideal American family looks
like
How have cities in the DFW metro area grown over the past few
decades? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ From the start of 1990 to the end of
2016, the DFW metropolitan statistical area increased total employment
by 1,465,581 jobs, topping much bigger New York by more than 70,232
jobs and surpassing fellow Sunbelt boomtowns Houston (by 195,012
jobs) and Atlanta (by 232,351 jobs).
, - most jobs in suburbs
Where has this growth taken place? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ growth
specifically in North Dallas
What is the "American Dream?" - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ the ideal that
every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success
and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.
What does the "American Dream" look like? What stereotypes does it
embody? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ hard work can get you anywhere (?)
How do race and gender factor into the American Dream? - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Race: white American (?)
Gender: male (?)
How is the American Dream associated with urban space in the United
States? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ homeownership; moving to suburbs
outside of cities
In what ways is 20th-century American suburbanization associated with
Cold War geopolitics? - Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Political leaders
celebrated suburban living, linking suburban consumption to the health
of the republic itself. And they elevated the suburban home to a
gleaming symbol of American superiority during the Cold War.
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