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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. When was "How to Study Urban Political Power" first published?
2. What current trends of the urban life does Mumford refer to as the "postnucleated city"?
3. When was Patrick Geddes's "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" first published?
4. What is the first city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?
5. What kind of streets does the author of "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" argue have reduced urban overcrowding?
Short Essay Questions
1. What negative aspects of poverty does Oscar Lewis describe?
2. How has planning changed, according to Peter Hall in "The City of Theory"?
3. What are the benefits of public parks, according to Frederick Law Olmstead?
4. What three possible city plans are presented in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?
5. What does John Kasarda concluted in "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch"?
6. What picture of the urban poor is depicted in "The Black Underclass"?
7. What plans and theories are presented in "A Contemporary City"?
8. What questions are posed in John Mollenkopf's "How to Study Urban Political Power"?
9. What is detailed in "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?
10. What are Saskia Sassen's views on development? What article discusses this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Describe the careers and theories of H.D.F. Kitto and Henri Pirenne and the works "The Polis," "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization." How do Kitto's and Pirenne's visions differ?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the development of black communities from the lift of slavery through today. How have black cultures assimilated into urban communities?
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