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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. The author of "The Polis" writes that the term polis refers to more of a what than the current "city"?

2. What periodical first published "The Urban Revolution"?

3. When was the Second Edition of The City Reader published in an expanded version?

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

5. When was author and theorist Albrecht Dürer born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many Americans lived in urban areas in 1960, according to Kingsley Davis? How did this change?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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 Levittown depicted in "Levittown and America" and the vision of Saskia in "A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications." How do the authors differ in their theories?

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