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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. When was the article "Levittown and America" first published?
2. 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"?
3. What refers to the boundaries of the city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
4. When was "The Polis" first published?
5. Rather than using the traditional three ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron, V. Gordon Childe writes that development is better seen as occurring in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, urban, and what eras?
Short Essay Questions
1. What city is described in John Brinckerhoff Jackson's "The Almost Perfect Town"?
2. What is the subject of the essay "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"? What assertions does the author claim?
3. What led to the publication of "The Design of Spaces"? What does this study entail?
4. What city does Pirenne discuss in "Cities and European Civilization"? How does he describe it?
5. What impact did the feudal system have on production, according to "The Urbanization of the Human Population"? When did production levels change?
6. What was Davis' conclusion about the patterns of urbanization in "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?
7. What is the basis of study in "A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications"? What did the author conclude?
8. Describe author Kingsley Davis. What works is he most well-known for?
9. What type of dwelling and community is described in "Levittown and America"? What does the author conclude?
10. How does H.D.F. Kitto define "polis" in "The Polis"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the traditional ages in comparison with V. Gordon Childe's distinctions of historical eras. How does Childe's view differ?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution on urbanization and how this relates to Davis' S curve theory. Where is our civilization today in Davis' model?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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