1. "What is a City?" discusses the urban experience as what to human life?
(a) Enlightening.
(b) Unimportant.
(c) Central.
(d) Detrimental.

2. When was "The City Image and Its Elements" first published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1955.

3. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?
(a) Dictatorial state.
(b) Peace state.
(c) Autocratic state.
(d) Mosaic-state.

4. The author of "The Black Underclass" argues that upwardly mobile men have moved out of poor black communities, depriving these communities of what?
(a) Potential leaders.
(b) Congressmen.
(c) Father figures.
(d) Priests.

5. "The Design of Spaces" is a result of a study requested by whom?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The New York Mayor's Office.
(c) The New York City Planning Commission.
(d) The Central Intelligence Agency.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to reference points that have a clear form, contrast with their background, and have prominent locations in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

2. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"

3. Kevin Lynch writes in "The City Image and Its Elements" about concepts that are common to cities and necessary for these areas to be what?

4. Who wrote "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves"?

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

(see the answer key)

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