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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Visions, Theory, and Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Genoe.

2. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Forbes.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Town Planning Review.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

3. What is the first of several responses to developments of local governments given by the author in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?
(a) Increasing taxation.
(b) Decreasing taxation.
(c) Cutting public spending.
(d) Frequent elections.

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

5. Who wrote "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves"?
(a) Michael Young and Peter Willmott.
(b) Peter Willmott and Christopher Alexander.
(c) Oscar Lewis and Christopher Alexander.
(d) Oscar Lewis and Peter Willmott.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Choosing a Future," Murray examines education as a possible solution, noting that many barriers to a fair education had already been eliminated by what era?

2. When was "The City Image and Its Elements" first published?

3. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?

4. The author of "The Black Underclass" argues that upwardly mobile men have moved out of poor black communities, depriving these communities of what?

5. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

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