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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. What essay in the collection was written by Peter Hall?
(a) "The Factual Town."
(b) "The City of Theory."
(c) "Total Utopia."
(d) "It Takes A Village."

2. Lewis Mumford presents the city as a collection of primary groups assembled together, with their physical organization determining levels of what?
(a) Fame.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Drama.

3. "Cities and Uneven Economic Development" compares the trade and manufacturing of midland England, for example, versus the financial functions of what major cities?
(a) New York and London.
(b) Boston and Philadelphia.
(c) Chicago and St. Louis.
(d) Paris and Los Angeles.

4. Who wrote "A Contemporary City"?
(a) Hambleton.
(b) Le Corbusier.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Olmsted.

5. When was "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" first published?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1864.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third of four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

2. When was Ebenezer Howard born?

3. When was Patrick Geddes born?

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

5. What group concedes that economic forces come into play, but that urban political theory also needs to draw on theories of the state in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does John Mollenkopf define structuralists and pluralists in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

2. What is detailed in "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?

3. What does Ebenezer Howard propose for urban developers? Which articles are his?

4. What does Patrick Geddes describe in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?

5. Where does the study take place in "Kinship and Community"? Who conducted it?

6. What are the benefits of public parks, according to Frederick Law Olmstead?

7. What ideas do Frank S. So and Judith Getzel present in the anthology?

8. What does John Kasarda concluted in "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch"?

9. What does Oscar Lewis write about in the anthology? What are his theories?

10. What is discussed and proposed in "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?

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