The urban transition in China demonstrates that
a. governments can retard the urban transition, but cannot stop it.
b. the one-child policy has helped to slow down the urban transition.
c. the urban transition is consistent with a Marxian population perspective.
d. China's largest cities have absorbed most of the growth in the country's urban population.
Question 2
Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, illustrates the point that
a. even in Mexico, small rural places are absorbed by larger urban metropolises.
b. migrants from Mexico to the United States create a situation of population decline in rural Mexico.
c. a small village of artisans with a long indigenous history should not be thought of as rural.
d. population growth in rural villages leads to migration of younger people to urban places.
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