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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was "A Contemporary City" first published?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1936.

2. What publication is Ebenezer Howard most well-known for publishing?
(a) Garden Cities of To-morrow.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) Time Magazine.

3. What is referred to as the relationship and interaction between governmental and non-governmental bodies, seeing how they interact and get results in "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?
(a) Power tolerance.
(b) Obediance.
(c) Tug of war.
(d) Regime theory.

4. Within the city, what are most important to Lewis Mumford in "What is a City?"
(a) Emergency service.
(b) Building codes.
(c) Utilities.
(d) Social needs.

5. What essay in the collection was written by Peter Hall?
(a) "The Factual Town."
(b) "It Takes A Village."
(c) "The City of Theory."
(d) "Total Utopia."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote "Regime Theory and Urban Politics"?

3. Who is the author of "The Black Underclass"?

4. Who wrote "How to Study Urban Political Power"?

5. "Cities and Uneven Economic Development" compares the trade and manufacturing of midland England, for example, versus the financial functions of what major cities?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Gerry Stoker write about "neo-pluralists"?

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

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

10. What ideas do Frank S. So and Judith Getzel present in the anthology?

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