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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Future of The City.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fourth of the five factors which "city of tomorrow" would emerge in "Ecumenopolis, World City of Tomorrow"?
(a) Shells.
(b) Man.
(c) Nature.
(d) Technology.

2. Where are the slums and factories located in the city from "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Myrtle Avenue.
(b) Locust Street.
(c) Railroad Avenue.
(d) South Main Street.

3. When was Patrick Geddes's "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" first published?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1913.

4. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?
(a) Democratic voting.
(b) Freedom of the press.
(c) Community organization.
(d) The rule of the King.

5. What is the second city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?
(a) Efficient consumption.
(b) Eliminating the difference between producers and consumers.
(c) Security.
(d) Managing power.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

3. What refers to the city areas or "parts" of a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

4. When was "Urbanism as a Way of Life" first published?

5. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the British system is more what?

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