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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. 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?
2. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?
3. What refers to reference points that have a clear form, contrast with their background, and have prominent locations in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
4. What refers to the boundaries of the city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
5. What conquistador wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés?
Short Essay Questions
1. What city is described in John Brinckerhoff Jackson's "The Almost Perfect Town"?
2. How many Americans lived in urban areas in 1960, according to Kingsley Davis? How did this change?
3. What was Davis' conclusion about the patterns of urbanization in "The Urbanization of the Human Population"?
4. How did open spaces become a part of urbanization, according to H.D.F. Kitto? From what culture did they arise?
5. What city does Pirenne discuss in "Cities and European Civilization"? How does he describe it?
6. How does H.D.F. Kitto define "polis" in "The Polis"?
7. What is The City Reader aimed at in the academic setting? What authors in the selection have specialties in the field of urban study?
8. What is the subject of the essay "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety"? What assertions does the author claim?
9. What is the basis of study in "A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications"? What did the author conclude?
10. What works of W.E.B. Dubois are in the collection? What does Dubois center on in his writing?
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
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 3
Describe the three models presented by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life." Which of these models do they most relate to or prefer? Why?
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