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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 would serve as the "lungs" of the hypothesized city in "A Contemporary City"?
2. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?
3. Who wrote "The Culture of Poverty"?
4. Who does the author of "The Black Underclass" criticize for their fear to confront the issues of the poor black community?
5. What is the third city plan described by Louis Wirth in "Urbanism as a Way of Life" planned around?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Ebenezer Howard propose for urban developers? Which articles are his?
2. What does Patrick Geddes describe in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?
3. What negative aspects of poverty does Oscar Lewis describe?
4. What does Lewis Mumford write about urban development? Which article did he contribute?
5. What did the authors of "Kinship and Community" find in interviews with the residents? What happened after they relocated?
6. What does Oscar Lewis write about in the anthology? What are his theories?
7. What three possible city plans are presented in "Urbanism as a Way of Life"?
8. What picture of the urban poor is depicted in "The Black Underclass"?
9. What does Gerry Stoker define regime theory as in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
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
Define and identify the different fields of specialization and topics of study under the umbrella of "urban studies." How do these relate to the class you are currently in?
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
Discuss the life and career of Friedrich Engels and his vision of urbanization in "The Great Towns." How did Engels' socialist viewpoint reflect in his vision of urbanization?
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