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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 kind of computer software permits users to map data and is useful in studying cities?

2. Engels writes that it is what that has crammed the people into squalor in "The Great Towns"?

3. Who is the author of "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia"?

4. What city does the author of "The Polis" use as an example of the peak of the polis?

5. What city's civilization does V. Gordon Childe describe from 3000-2000 B.C. in "The Urban Revolution"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does H.D.F. Kitto define "polis" in "The Polis"?

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

4. What are examples of "boundaries" as defined by Kevin Lynch? What are nodes?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss authors Michael Young and Peter Willmott and British area of Bethnal Green. During what period did the authors study the area?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the lives, careers, and theories of the authors of "The Almost Perfect Town," "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" and "The City Image and Its Elements." How do these authors' views differ on urban development?

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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