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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Urban Politics, Governance, and Economics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?
(a) Eliminating the difference between producers and consumers.
(b) Managing power.
(c) Efficient consumption.
(d) Security.

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

3. Who wrote "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves"?
(a) Michael Young and Peter Willmott.
(b) Peter Willmott and Christopher Alexander.
(c) Oscar Lewis and Peter Willmott.
(d) Oscar Lewis and Christopher Alexander.

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

5. 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"?
(a) Scientific laws.
(b) Degrees.
(c) Disciplines.
(d) Theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. "What is a City?" discusses the urban experience as what to human life?

2. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?

3. Who discuss the implications of social complexities and question what the advantage of interests implies, according to the author of "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

4. When was "The Almost Perfect Town" first published?

5. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?

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