When Increased Demand for Urban Services Combines with a Shrinking

question 81

Multiple Choice

When increased demand for urban services combines with a shrinking tax base (where businesses and affluent people move out to the suburbs and beyond) ,central cities around the country struggle with

• A) the fiscal squeeze.
• B) urban sprawl.
• C) invasion and succession.
• D) isotopic surfaces.
• E) how to fill ecological niches.

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