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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. 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?

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

4. What civilization's community was more geographically centered, and citizens were expected to contribute to the justice system, seeing it as their community duty according to the author of "The Polis"?

5. V. Gordon Childe discusses the evolution of cities in Spain, Britain, and Germany during what period in "The Urban Revolution"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What essay is written by Kevin Lynch? What elements of cities does he introduce?

3. What metaphor does Christopher Alexander make in "A City is Not a Tree"?

4. Describe author Kingsley Davis. What works is he most well-known for?

5. What works of W.E.B. Dubois are in the collection? What does Dubois center on in his writing?

6. What type of dwelling and community is described in "Levittown and America"? What does the author conclude?

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

8. What was Davis' conclusion about the patterns of urbanization in "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?

9. How did open spaces become a part of urbanization, according to H.D.F. Kitto? From what culture did they arise?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the life and career of author W.E.B. Dubois. Where was W.E.B. Dubois born and raised? How did this affect his vision of urban development?

Essay Topic 2

Describe authors Lewis Mumford and Louis Wirth. What is Mumford's vision of the urban experience? How does this differ from Louis Wirth's?

Essay Topic 3

Identify and define the following terms: discipline, interdisciplinary, urban planning and research, and compartmentalization. How are each of these related in the Introduction and Prologue?

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