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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Evolution of Cities.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) James Q. Wilson's.
(b) Lewis Mumford's.
(c) John Forester's.
(d) Frederic Stout's.

2. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) Poland.

3. Who wrote the book The City in History in 1961?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Raymond Mohl.
(d) James Q. Wilson.

4. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?
(a) 56.
(b) 52.
(c) 59.
(d) 53.

5. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?
(a) Utopian.
(b) Space.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Silver.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Making of Urban America?

2. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

3. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?

4. In "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that the borderlines between the objects of study, methods, theory and work product of different disciplines are what?

5. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?

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