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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Visions, Theory, and Practice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of streets does the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" argue have reduced urban overcrowding?
(a) Narrow, curved streets.
(b) Wide, curved streets.
(c) Wide, straight streets.
(d) Narrow, straight streets.

2. 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) 28.
(b) 37.
(c) 35.
(d) 42.

3. What does the author of "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" write advanced a democratic society, taking pressure off of different classes by giving them an area that they can all enjoy?
(a) Urban centers.
(b) National parks.
(c) Vertical dwellings.
(d) Green space.

4. 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"?
(a) Neo-pluralists.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Intellectuals.
(d) Politicians.

5. What is the fourth of the four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Systematic.
(b) Preemptive.
(c) Command/social.
(d) Coalition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer from?

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

3. The author of "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" describes the growth of cities in Western Europe as historically bound by two elements: a middle class, and what?

4. What is the first city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?

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

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