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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Future of The City.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Urban economists tend to study the economics of cities using what kind of methods, according to LeGate in "How to Study Cities"?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Quantitative.
(c) Political.
(d) Industrial.

3. When was "A Contemporary City" first published?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1936.

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

5. When was John Kasarda's "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch" first published?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1988.

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

3. 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"?

4. At what institution is Richard LeGates a Professor of Urban Studies?

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

(see the answer key)

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