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. Who wrote "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan"?

2. What term refers to a system of persons or things arranged in a graded order?

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

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

5. In comparing U.S. and U.K. governments in "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America," the author concludes the British system is more what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is discussed and proposed in "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual"?

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

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

4. How has planning changed, according to Peter Hall in "The City of Theory"?

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

6. What are Saskia Sassen's views on development? What article discusses this?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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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