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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: The Future of The City.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Reconstruction of Social Meaning in the Space of Flows"?
(a) Raymond Unwin.
(b) Peter Hall.
(c) Constantin Doxiadis.
(d) Manuel Castells.

2. Who introduces urban history in the article "New Perspectives on American History"?
(a) Kevin Lynch.
(b) Larry S. Bourne.
(c) Raymond Mohl.
(d) Frederic Stout.

3. Engels describes the working-class districts and the public health consequences of these horrors where in "The Great Towns"?
(a) Dublin.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Manchester.
(d) London.

4. What city did Patrick Geddes cite for its "mistakes, disasters, even vandalisms" in "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government"?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Genoe.
(d) Edinburgh.

5. The First Edition of The City Reader was published by Routledge in what year?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to reference points that have a clear form, contrast with their background, and have prominent locations in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

2. What refers to entry points or points of transportation in a city in "The City Image and Its Elements"?

3. What is the first of four kinds of power described by the author in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

4. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"

5. Lewis Mumford presents the city as a collection of primary groups assembled together, with their physical organization determining levels of what?

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