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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "The Almost Perfect Town" first published?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1956.

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

3. At what institution is Richard LeGates a Professor of Urban Studies?
(a) University of California Santa Clara.
(b) San Francisco State University.
(c) University of Southern California.
(d) Humboldt State University.

4. In the Prologue, "How to Study Cities," LeGates writes that how many selections are included in The City Reader?
(a) 53.
(b) 59.
(c) 52.
(d) 56.

5. When was "The Great Towns" first published?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1844.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1845.

Short Answer 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?

2. 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?

3. "The Design of Spaces" is a result of a study requested by whom?

4. What kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?

5. LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that there are "social, spacial and _____ aspects to urban poverty as well as economic ones."

Short Essay Questions

1. How does H.D.F. Kitto define "polis" in "The Polis"?

2. In Friedrich Engels' "The Great Towns," how does the author describe the other side of the river? What does he blame for the urban congestion?

3. What is the basis of study in "A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications"? What did the author conclude?

4. How is The City Reader structured as an anthology?

5. What city does Pirenne discuss in "Cities and European Civilization"? How does he describe it?

6. How does "The Urbanization of the Human Population" explain urbanization in relation to human development?

7. When did Ernest W. Burgess describe the process of expansion through zones? Why did it occur?

8. What city is described in John Brinckerhoff Jackson's "The Almost Perfect Town"?

9. How many selections are in The City Reader? How were they chosen, according to Richard LeGates?

10. How many Americans lived in urban areas in 1960, according to Kingsley Davis? How did this change?

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