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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Perspectives on Urban Form and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the boundaries of the city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?
(a) Limits.
(b) Imaginary.
(c) Edges.
(d) Walls.

2. V. Gordon Childe writes in "The Urban Revolution" that the three revolutions separating the major eras are the urban, the industrial and what?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Paleolithic.
(d) Neolithic.

3. What urban sociologist did extensive field research in Black ghettos of Chicago?
(a) John Reps.
(b) Kevin Lynch.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

4. When was "The Great Towns" first published?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1856.

5. What city does John Brinckerhoff Jackson describe in "The Almost Perfect Town"?
(a) Optimum City.
(b) Opium City
(c) Optimo City.
(d) Optimizer City.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does LeGate write developed a "broken window" theory and community policing ideas in "How to Study Cities"?

2. What civilization's community was more geographically centered, and citizens were expected to contribute to the justice system, seeing it as their community duty according to the author of "The Polis"?

3. What kind of research does not necessarily look at numbers or statistical analysis?

4. What is the first of the five elements that are common to cities described in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

5. What examples of cities and civilizations from the Stone era does V. Gordon Childe describe in "The Urban Revolution"?

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