The City Reader Test | Final Test - Hard

Richard T. LeGates
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The City Reader Test | Final Test - Hard

Richard T. LeGates
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Patrick Geddes born?

2. What is the first of several responses to developments of local governments given by the author in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

3. Who wrote "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

4. When was "Regime Theory and Urban Politics" first published?

5. When was "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" first published?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gerry Stoker define regime theory as in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

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

3. What is questioned in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America"?

4. What three possible city plans are presented in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?

5. How does John Mollenkopf define structuralists and pluralists in "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

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

7. What case studies are presented in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

8. What would the outer and inner city contain in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?

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

10. Where does the study take place in "Kinship and Community"? Who conducted it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and describe the changes and developments in urbanization through the Middle Ages as described in "The Urbanization of the Human Population." Who is the author of this work?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and describe John Mollenkopf and the theories and ideas presented in "How to Study Urban Political Power." What are the two groups of researchers described in the article?

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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