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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. The editors write in the Introduction from the Editors that their students have asked for the past how many years what the best writings in urban development are?
(a) 35.
(b) 42.
(c) 37.
(d) 28.

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

3. When was the imaginary city surveyed and laid out in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) 1860s
(b) 1880s
(c) 1870s.
(d) 1890s

4. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Henri Pirenne.
(c) H.D.F. Kitto.
(d) Bernal Diaz.

5. Who wrote "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"?
(a) Jane Jacobs.
(b) Christopher Alexander.
(c) Kenneth T. Jackson.
(d) Ernest W. Burgess.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?

3. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?

4. Whose "thoughtful prescriptions for urban poverty" are discussed by LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?

5. 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?

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