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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. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Rome.
(b) London.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Crete.

2. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?
(a) Egypt, Sudan, and Ireland.
(b) India, Ireland, and Chile.
(c) Scotland, Iran, and Sudan.
(d) Egypt, Sumner, and India.

3. What urban designer and his students conducted surveys of residents of Boston and other cities to understand how they perceived the city environment?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(c) William Julius Wilson.
(d) Kingsley Davis.

4. Who wrote "A City Is Not a Tree"?
(a) Christopher Alexander.
(b) Michael Young.
(c) Jane Jacobs.
(d) Kenneth T. Jackson.

5. The editors describe John Brinckerhoff Jackson's view of the Southwestern city in "The Almost Perfect Town" as what?
(a) "Beyond belief."
(b) "Heavenly."
(c) "Corrupt."
(d) "Semimythical."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was "The Polis" first published?

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. The editors of The City Reader have taught at the San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkley and what other institution, according to the Introduction from the Editors?

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

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