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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. 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) Scientists.
(b) Intellectuals.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Neo-pluralists.

2. What did Ebenezer Howard call the central area in his Utopian cities in "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet"?
(a) The Green Obelisk.
(b) The Drum Circle.
(c) Crystal Palace.
(d) The Ivory Tower.

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

4. 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) National parks.
(b) Vertical dwellings.
(c) Urban centers.
(d) Green space.

5. How many boulevards would shoot off the city center in Ebenezer Howard's "The Town-Country Magnet"?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns"?

2. When were "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" first published?

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

4. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?

5. What is the first of several responses to developments of local governments given by the author in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three possible city plans are presented in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?

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

3. What does Gerry Stoker write about "neo-pluralists"?

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

5. What does Gerry Stoker define regime theory as in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

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

7. What case studies are presented in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

8. What negative aspects of poverty does Oscar Lewis describe?

9. How has planning changed, according to Peter Hall in "The City of Theory"?

10. What would the outer and inner city contain in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?

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