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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. In "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author discusses the developments in the U.S. and U.K. for the past how many years?

2. What essay in the collection was written by Peter Hall?

3. Who wrote "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

4. When was "Choosing a Future" first published?

5. In "How to Study Urban Political Power," the author writes that there have been two groups of researchers studying city politics: the pluralists, and who?

Short Essay Questions

1. What picture of the urban poor is depicted in "The Black Underclass"?

2. What negative aspects of poverty does Oscar Lewis describe?

3. What questions are posed in John Mollenkopf's "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

4. What does John Kasarda concluted in "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch"?

5. What does Ebenezer Howard propose for urban developers? Which articles are his?

6. What does Lewis Mumford write about urban development? Which article did he contribute?

7. What did the authors of "Kinship and Community" find in interviews with the residents? What happened after they relocated?

8. What are the benefits of public parks, according to Frederick Law Olmstead?

9. What does Oscar Lewis write about in the anthology? What are his theories?

10. What does Gerry Stoker write about "neo-pluralists"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss authors Mike Davis, Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard, examining the biography, career, and theories of each. How are these concepts reflected in "Fortress L.A." and "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto"?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the city models and theories presented by Ian McHarg and Dolores Hayden. How would each of the authors propose to improve urban development?

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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