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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Perspectives on Urban Form and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Second Edition of The City Reader published in an expanded version?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1999.

2. 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) Clearly drawn.
(b) Fuzzy.
(c) Unimaginable.
(d) Vastly different.

3. 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"?
(a) Landmarks.
(b) Statues.
(c) Boundaries.
(d) Monuments.

4. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Optimo City.
(b) Opium City
(c) Optimizer City.
(d) Optimum City.

5. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) 1500 B.C.
(b) 1400 B.C.
(c) 1300 B.C.
(d) 1500 A.D.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" viewed the social growth and physical growth of a city as being what?

2. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?

3. Urban sociologists tend to study the sociology of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

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

5. 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?

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