1. 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?
(a) Vastly different.
(b) Fuzzy.
(c) Clearly drawn.
(d) Unimaginable.

2. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) John Reps.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

3. What is the name of the book in which "The Polis" was first published?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Ottomans.
(c) The Gods.
(d) The Romans.

4. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Industrial.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Political.
(d) Quantitative.

5. The First Edition of The City Reader was published by Routledge in what year?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does LeGates write "have their advantage that they are based on consistent methods for acquiring knowledge and a more or less agreed upon body of knowledge"?

2. What kind of academic programs are referred to as those which bring the expertise of specialists from multiple disciplines together?

3. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."

4. When was "The Polis" first published?

5. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?

(see the answer key)

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