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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. Whose insights on urban planning in the face of conflict does LeGate claim to be intellectually rigorous in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Frederic Stout's.
(b) John Forester's.
(c) James Q. Wilson's.
(d) Lewis Mumford's.

2. When did Friedrich Engels produce The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1851.

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

4. 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?
(a) Interrelated.
(b) Essential.
(c) Without limit.
(d) Unrelated.

5. "The Design of Spaces" is a result of a study requested by whom?
(a) The New York City Planning Commission.
(b) The New York Mayor's Office.
(c) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

2. Who was the author of "The Polis"?

3. When was the article "Levittown and America" first published?

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

5. Richard LeGates describes the process of studying cities as what in "How to Study Cities"?

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