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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author excerpted in The City Reader is recognized as an expert in the social science discipline of history, according to "How to Study Cities"?

2. Richard LeGates writes in "How to Study Cities" that professors are trained in and expected to teach material within their respective what?

3. Kevin Lynch writes in "The City Image and Its Elements" about concepts that are common to cities and necessary for these areas to be what?

4. Who wrote "Of the Noble and Magnificent City of Kin-sai"?

5. Who edited the book The Internal Structure of the City?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the subject of the essay "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"? What assertions does the author claim?

2. What is Richard LeGates' purpose in the article "How to Study Cities"?

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

4. How does V. Gordon Childe's "The Urban Revolution" re-categorize history?

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

6. What impact did the feudal system have on production, according to "The Urbanization of the Human Population"? When did production levels change?

7. What vision is described in Ernest W. Burgess's "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project"?

8. What environment does Engels describe in "The Great Towns"? Where does his analysis take place?

9. 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?

10. What led to the publication of "The Design of Spaces"? What does this study entail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are W.E.B. Dubois' ideas reflected in "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice"?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Levittown depicted in "Levittown and America" and the vision of Saskia in "A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications." How do the authors differ in their theories?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the life and career of Friedrich Engels and his vision of urbanization in "The Great Towns." How did Engels' socialist viewpoint reflect in his vision of urbanization?

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