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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. Who wrote the article "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?

2. The editors describe John Brinckerhoff Jackson's view of the Southwestern city in "The Almost Perfect Town" as what?

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

4. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?

5. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Henri Pirenne's "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" each discuss cities in slightly different ways. What is the first article in reference to?

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

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

6. How does "The Urbanization of the Human Population" explain urbanization in relation to human development?

7. How many selections are in The City Reader? How were they chosen, according to Richard LeGates?

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

9. How is The City Reader structured as an anthology?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the development of black communities from the lift of slavery through today. How have black cultures assimilated into urban communities?

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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